Documentary Field Notes and Flashpoints

I have heard many people say that multi-platform production is ‘just another way to tell a story.’ It sounds simple, clear-cut, reassuring. But is that it? I think not. There is a huge difference in the way you can communicate content with a multi-platform project. When you tell a linear story, you are grappling with [...]

This is a still taken from an excellent interactive web documentary, Prison Valley by David Dufresne & Philippe Brault, produced by arte.tv and upian.com, in partnership with FranceInter, Libération.fr and Yahoo.com. The world of documentary production is in the midst of an upheaval, the likes of which have not been seen since the coming of [...]