..using footage taken from multiple devices like phones, digital video cameras, closed-circuit television systems, news footage, and web cams, a storyline can be generated online which has the feel of a real sequence of events. These video elements would then be played back with overlying narrative in an actual filmic release, requiring fans of the online footage to sit through multiple viewings of the final film product to satisfactorily answer all of the questions that the bits of online footage and media had raised, thereby creating depth and reflecting back that which has become familiar through previous exposure. 3gp projected on a full theater isn't going to work, but embedding bits of footage already passed around on cellphones months in advance of the release will, and digital narrative is only going to become both more filmic and more occultic.

via Digital Narrative in Attention Ecology .;. Trans-Media Narration via Modular Exposure.

An example of another film which uses non-linear narration to good effect is The Usual Suspects.

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Jenkins, Henry (2006) Convergence Culture pp 101-103, sidebar.

Henry Jenkins’ work can provide an excellent starting point in understanding trends in contemporary media culture. See the suggested reading list in the back of the book for a wealth of follow-up material.

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