The more freedom you give the visitor to explore, so they say, the less your control over the experience can be. They've experimented with several ways of resolving such difficulties. The most successful involves timelines and maps, which give you distinct beginning and end points, while allowing large amounts of information to be accessed through a single interface. It uses both a timeline and a layered structure. Each point on the timeline tells a general story, but also contains links that allow you to dig deeper into the topic.
Films are so frustrating.
We take lots of notes and try to figure out how to break them apart and retell the story. Nowadays, the firm is branching out from client-driven projects to producing its own projects. Second Story's new business model centers on creating content that drives traffic, and licensing it to companies that want the viewers. Whether that can be turned into dollar signs is another story, and that one is still waiting to be written. Or, er, turned into an interactive multimedia experience you can view over the Web.