Mobile Video Platforms: The Big Three

Youtube, Facebook Instagram

You don’t need to be told that digital and mobile video are hot these days. You can read this article, or you can read this one, and don’t forget to stare at the pretty charts some intern put together in between handfuls of Cheetos. The gist of each is that television still dominates, but digital […]

Ken Burns on Emotional Truth in Storytelling

Ken Burns on Documentary Storytelling

In this short video featured in The Atlantic,  legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns explains how the whole of the story transcends the sum of its parts: Jean Luc Goddard said cinema is truth 24 times a second. Maybe. It’s lying 24 times a second too, all the time, all story is manipulation. Is there acceptable […]