Introducing The Playback, a new digital series from The Video Consortium premiering April 6. Every other Thursday, we will take you behind the scenes of your favorite nonfiction storytelling, from feature docs to the Washington Post's viral TikTok account. Each episode will explore a different element of our craft, including access, animation, sound design & more.
THE PLAYBACK
THE VIDEO CONSORTIUM
NATIONWIDE
EPISODE 1:
THEY'RE A WORLD-CLASS NEWSPAPER. THEY'RE ALSO TIKTOK FAMOUS.
Meet Carmella Boykin, a journalist and TikTok producer at the Washington Post. During the pandemic, the newspaper launched their now-viral TikTok account, and is changing the way that news is covered on the social internet.
EPISODE 2:
THIS COUPLE TURNED THE NATURE DOCUMENTARY ON ITS HEAD.
Cinematographers Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden turned the nature documentary on its head in their directorial debut, the awards season darling, Nuisance Bear. The film explores how we share space with animals from the perspective of one cheeky polar bear.
EPISODE 3:
THEY HEILED TRUMP. NOW THEY'RE MAINSTREAM.
In 2016, filmmaker Daniel Lombroso caught Trump supporters heiling the president-elect’s victory on camera. After the clip went viral, Lombroso embedded himself in alt-right circles and documented the ascent of white nationalism in what became his debut feature, White Noise.
EPISODE 4:
INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES INVESTIGATION OF JAN. 6
As thousands of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2020, the New York Times Visual Investigations team collected hundreds of hours of real-time footage, painstakingly reconstructing the event in this Pulitzer Prize-winning play-by-play of perhaps the world’s best documented crime scene.