Canal+: Track Carlos

Track Carlos is France’s Canal+ attempt to do something special – to connect with audience via the web and get them to switch on their TV sets on a regular basis. And, I have to say, it’s a brilliantly successful attempt to just that.Track Carlos, created by a collaboration of agencies – BETC EURO RSCG, Douny and Circus, promotes the Canal+ series tracking the activity of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. For many years the worlds most wanted terrorist, Ilich (or Carlos the Jackal if you prefer the nom de guerre) made the world tremble with his particular brand of geopolitical destabilisation activity. It’s a captivating story and a great site to whet the appetite.

The site graphically tracks Ilich’s life activity in a neat timelined world view, where you navigate through a stunning 3D transitions to discover the facts about each event. With clips from the series, real achieve film footage and press cuttings from the time, interviews from the production team and cast, one really feels the full drama of the situation.