{"id":860,"date":"2012-03-16T18:28:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2012\/03\/16\/what-were-watching-kony-2012-bla-bla-and-the-extra-point\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:57:58","slug":"what-were-watching-kony-2012-bla-bla-and-the-extra-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2012\/03\/16\/what-were-watching-kony-2012-bla-bla-and-the-extra-point\/","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;re watching: Kony 2012, \u201cBLA BLA\u201d and the extra point"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-html mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            Yesterday at SXSW, a fascinating interactive animation by Quebec filmmaker Vincent Morriset called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blabla.nfb.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BLA BLA<\/strong><\/a>\u201d won\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/story\/2012\/03\/15\/sxsw-prize-nfb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first prize in the Interactive Art category<\/a>. While we\u2019re not sure that the treatment of an animated protagonist and inkblots and the starry night sky fits the Storyboard bill as either <em>narrative<\/em> or <em>journalism, <\/em>we can see why it won at SXSW \u2013 and why the National Film Board of Canada backed it in the first place.<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14861\" title=\"bear-71g\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bear-71g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"188\" \/>Luckily for this site, the NFB has been up to other things that fit more cleanly into Storyboard\u2019s mission. They got viral attention this winter when the release of their documentary \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3QPZfcYTUaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pink Ribbons, Inc.<\/strong><\/a>\u201d coincided with the maelstrom around the Susan G. Komen for the Cure\/Planned Parenthood funding controversy.<br \/><br \/>But as \u201cBLA BLA\u201d\u00a0indicates, some of the NFB\u2019s most innovative work is in\u00a0experimental storytelling, such as one new interactive documentary (yes, interactive documentary) with first-person narration from the point of view of &#8230; a bear. Set in the Canadian Rockies, you can enter \u201cthe uniquely modern territory where the wired world ends and the wild one begins.\u201d Meet \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bear71.nfb.ca\/#\/bear71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bear 71<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kony 2012<\/span><br \/><br \/>Along with everyone else, we\u2019ve spent the last week watching the drama surrounding \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kony 2012<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d a megaphone-ready campaign calling for the capture of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Storytellers have been talking for some time about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2012\/03\/08\/african-voices-respond-to-hype.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how stories get told<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanstoryboard.org\/2009\/10\/14\/narrative-reporting-and-the-danger-of-the-single-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by whom<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanstoryboard.org\/2010\/03\/18\/duckrabbits-benjamin-chesterton-on-the-blindfolded-photographer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in what context<\/a>. And \u201cKony 2012\u201d has hit a nerve, not only with photojournalists and political writers but also with with Ugandans themselves, several of whom <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.aljazeera.com\/africa\/2012\/03\/14\/ugandans-react-anger-kony-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took to open protest<\/a> before screenings around the country were canceled this week.<br \/><br \/>For the record, the filmmakers have gained support for their viral approach from some journalists,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/15\/opinion\/kristof-viral-video-vicious-warlord.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including The New York Times\u2019\u00a0Nicholas Kristof<\/a>; while outlets like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/03\/07\/guest_post_joseph_kony_is_not_in_uganda_and_other_complicated_things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Policy<\/a> and writers like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hornlight.org\/2012\/03\/not-a-click-away-joseph-kony-in-the-real-world-dinaw-mengistu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dinaw Mengestu<\/a> argue that it is fundamentally flawed.\u00a0We\u2019re fairly sure, however, that fodder for discussions of appropriating or benefiting from someone else\u2019s misery has never before been as abundant as it is in <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/03\/15\/revealed-kony-2012s-siniste.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video<\/a> from Invisible Children, which includes footage of a traumatized child as a lead-in to an extended dance performance by not only the filmmakers but what appears to be an entire high school.<!--more--><br \/><br \/>On a less controversial front is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/20\/us\/football-oldest-college-kicker\/index.html?hpt=us_t2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a CNN story that offers minimal fanfare and hints at tremendous complexity<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Alan Moore kicked his first extra point almost 50 years ago in high school, then headed off to Vietnam. After he was laid off from construction work in the Great Recession, this grandfather of five still dreamed of playing college football. And so he did. This extraordinary profile of\u00a0a 61-year-old kicker for the\u00a0Faulkner University Eagles includes inspiring elements without becoming manipulative.<br \/><br \/>Somewhere between \u201cKony 2012\u201d and CNN\u2019s profile of Alan Moore sits \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/barackobama?source=RoadWeveTraveled-20120315-HP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Road We&#8217;ve Traveled<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Davis Guggenheim\u2019s video summing up President Barack Obama\u2019s first term. Davis, known for his policy-focused documentary work, produced the film on assignment for Obama\u2019s re-election campaign. News footage combines with heartwarming photos and narration by Tom Hanks as Guggenheim works to build a very simple narrative from the roller-coaster ride of a presidential term.<br \/><br \/>Guggenheim\u2019s latest is not, and is not meant to be, journalism. But it\u2019s useful to look at the way that these three videos \u2013 each of which was designed to evoke emotion in millions of viewers \u2013\u00a0approach their narrative arcs, and the degree to which complicating information is adopted or avoided. However necessary a strong grasp of narrative is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanstoryboard.org\/2010\/09\/28\/harvard-michael-jones-on-heroes-villains-and-the-science-of-narrative-and-policy-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for effective policymaking<\/a> and good reporting, the question of \u201chow simple is too simple?\u201d seems destined to dog us for a good while longer.\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at SXSW, a fascinating interactive animation by Quebec filmmaker Vincent Morriset called \u201cBLA BLA\u201d won\u00a0first prize in the Interactive Art category. 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