Pubblicare uno scavo all'epoca di YouTube: comunicazione archeologica, narratività e video

Methodological reflection on communication in archaeology greatly developed over the past fifteen years. It is now widely accepted that video-narrative medium has a larger potential compared with other media commonly used up to now. The archaeological video can be divided into some different categories – documentary, video update, docudrama – each of them potentially destined to a variety of audiences when the movie is inserted into a narrative framework. By its nature, the archaeological site of Vignale, where the relative poverty of the remains on the ground sharply contrasts with the richness of the “stories” the site itself can narrate, is an ideal place to test the docudrama-model video. Initially intended to be just an instrument for communicating with and involving local population in the archaeological project as a whole, the video-narrative proved to be a powerful tool in stimulating the research group itself towards a more thoughtful and “multivocal” recording of the fieldwork done. The output of the project was the making of a brief “series” of videos, with the general title of “The Excavation and its Stories”. They were initially used as an educational support for younger students in archaeology, but later obtained a wider audience through the web.