Written text leaves a lot of things to the reader's imagination, and therefore gives the reader a lot more freedom to engage with the content in whatever way he likes, at whatever pace he prefers. Some people love to read plays, but not all of them like to watch movies based on those plays.
Imagining a couple of computer scientists ranting about MACs while flying through space with a laser unicorn is fun. Actually watching a lame animation of two people and a unicorn flying though space might be funny the first time, but it quickly gets tired. Sure, you could pull a Peter Jackson and make that video extremely high-quality, but most people have better things to do than making an epic movie out of every blog post, so most videos will end up mediocre anyway. And then we're just wasting bandwidth.
"GEB takes the form of an interweaving of various narratives. The main chapters alternate with dialogues between imaginary characters, usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by Lewis Carroll in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the first two dialogues, and later ones introduce new characters such as the Crab. These narratives frequently dip into self-reference and metafiction."
It's a thing: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=power+of+storytelling&s...
Oh my gosh, this sounds like so much fun! Someone please make this happen. Bonus points if you manage to work in an old-timey silent film scene, complete with plinky piano and over-dramatic reactions.
I think this could also be interesting to see in an actually filmed format, and could be applicable to more topics than just security/cryptography. Maybe instead of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" we could have "Computer Scientists in Cars Getting Coffee".
Right now it seems like most of the video content about this field is in either the single lecturer/presenter format, the interview format, or the unscripted Q&A panel format, but I have not seen many (or even any) multicharacter scripted pieces, as the original article presented. It seems like there is room to innovate in this space. Your "characters" could each have different concerns, and their contribution to the topic discussion would be scripted explain the topic in terms of their "personality" (the performance junky, the "paranoid" security person, etc). I'm just talking off the top of my head here, so I'm sure there are some more interesting ways to run with this concept.
If anyone has actually done something like this, I would appreciate if someone could reply with link or some more information about that project. If not I think it could be a project worth pursuing.