Thursday, November 29, 2012

Frontline makes the documentary interactive with 'David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal'

David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal screencap

From stories on voter targeting to car design, the PBS program Frontline has been actively exploring innovative ways to bring its content to online audiences. Its latest project, David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal , is an interactive documentary exploring the life of the Pakistani-American that helped lay the groundwork for a deadly 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.


A companion piece to last year's A Perfect Terrorist , the web documentary is built around the network of people and events that defined Headley's life. Director Tom Jennings narrates the program directly to the camera, drawing circles — whiteboard-style — for important people or events. Those circles then become clickable elements within the video, allowing the...


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