What you lookin’ at?

There’s been some discussion recently about where an interview subject should look during an on camera interview: to the left, to the right, straight into the camera? Like so many things in storytelling, I like to look to real life as my guide. For instance, I...

Surprise in storytelling

I’m a huge fan of the TV show Breaking Bad. It’s brilliantly written and plotted, beautifully filmed and always surprising, and I’ve only watched the first three seasons. Here’s an example of using surprise in storytelling. Up until the first...

Interactive Videos

Today in class we talked about interactive videos – strangely in other languages they are called very differently: web documentaires in French and Web-Dokus in German. If you want to check out what is going on other countries I compiled some examples in English...

Web videos in Germany

The US is cutting edge in online journalism and as in many other fields, web video story telling is much better here than elsewhere. An initiative in Germany is now trying to push innovative videos forward by creating a prize for web videos. The Deutsche Webvideopreis...