I see a celebrity

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Melissa Worden

Sarasota is celebrating movies — and their stars — during a 10-day extravaganza — the ninth annual Sarasota Film Festival.

HeraldTribune.com has put together a page of blogs, video podcasts, photos and stories as we cover the parties and presentations (DotCom features editor Jackie Luper heads the efforts).

There’s been a lot of talk from many bloggers about photographer- and reporter-generated video. But interestingly in this case, the print page designers (from the Features section) have taken a keen interest in producing the video podcasts for this package (they tried it for the first time last year, and it was quite a success).

Since we have a 24-hour cable news TV station in house (SNN News 6), we get a lot of video coverage produced firstly for TV. I think the clips the designers create compliment our TV clips by being more “raw” (ie, no talking head with a stick mic) and hopefully giving the reader a sense of place.

A benefit of having a film festival in town are the celebrity sightings. Producers, directors and stars, such as Edward Norton, Dominic Chianese, Steve Buscemi, and Marcia Gay Harden are here this week, so I put together an interactive “celebrity sightings” map, using Atlas maps, which I’ve previously written about.

It’s a fun experiment (I seeded it with some popular locales) — I just hope people will use it!

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