Ten days after we first talked about how to shape the story, we continued the conversation.
On 8/4/08 12:18 PM, "Jason Tanz" <Jason_Tanz@wired.com> wrote: OK, I know we’re still not clear on whether this Kaufman story is evenhappening, but I had a thought over the weekend, and wanted to run itby you.
The challenge we have is to — as everyone chillingly says — "raisethe bar" here. The way I see it, that means explore Kaufmanian themesof how narratives and stories are constructed, how we battleself-consciousness And frailty in our pursuit of "truth", etc. But ofcourse, this threatens to become mere meta-gimmickry pretty quick ("I’mwriting a profile of CharlieKaufman!" etc.), which will make nobody happy.
Here’s what I propose: let’s put everything online. I meaneverything — the pitch, my notes, our emails, marked-up galleys, fullinterview audio and/or transcripts, etc. We’ll post it as a Web extra, or whatever, but it’ll be much more — a real behind-the-scenes look athow a feature, this feature, gets conceived, written, shaped, etc.
I think it’s exciting from a journalism-and-tech POV; we’re usingthe web to be completely candid and show how a piece goes from idea todata to completed story. But it also dovetails so nicely with thesubject, in ways I probably don’t need to spell out. And it’d beoptional, so we wouldn’t be knocking people over the head with themeta-ness of it all.
Anyway, let me know what you think. It would be a pretty intenseExperience for both of us, I’m sure, but I think a potentially really interesting one.
On 8/4/08 12:20 PM, "Nancy Miller" <Nancy_Miller@wiredmag.com> wrote: I like this idea. Is there a version of this idea that will run in the mag?
On 8/4/08 12:21 PM, "Jason Tanz" <Jason_Tanz@wired.com> wrote: Maybe we can include some elements as sidebars?
Maybe even THESE VERY EMAILS?
