Famed photojournalist Dirck Halstead to present workshop at ASU

Sept. 11, 2008 -- World-renowned TIME magazine photojournalist, educator, and media innovator Dirck Halstead will present a two-day Platypus workshop at Arkansas State University on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 22-23, in ASU's College of Communications, Room 218. Halstead is famous for these workshops, which are described as “high-definition storytelling for journalists, photojournalists, editors, and producers.”

The workshop is open to students and professionals, but seating is limited. For information on the workshop, call Dr. Jack Zibluk, associate professor of journalism, at (870) 972-3255, or e-mail him at jzibluk@astate.edu, or see the schedule below.

DAY ONE
9:00 AM INTRODUCTION TO SHORT COURSE
Covers history of the Platypus, including how the name came to be, the changes in photojournalism in the past two decades, trends in the newspaper industry, how the web will save the brand of the newspaper and its photo staff.

10:30 AM   COFFEE BREAK

10:45  AM: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ARMY VIDEO: THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STILL AND VIDEO

INTRODUCTION TO THE CANON HX AI
Demonstration of camera technique, how to hold the camera, controls, Timecode

THE RULES AND ROUTINES

12:30 PM  LUNCH BREAK

1:30 PM: INTRODUCTION TO B ROLL
Firedrill, parking meter story

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM HOW TO DO SEQUENCES
Pausing time. Video ethics

4:00 PM LARRY HATEBERG’S THE ART OF STORYTELLING (video)

5:20 PM DAY ONE CONCLUDES

DAY TWO
9:00 AM  DAY ONE REVIEW

9:30 AM  THE BEST OF THE PLATYPUS WORKSHOPS (video)

10:30 AM A ROLL Lighting demonstration. The art of the interview

NOON  LUNCH BREAK

1:OO PM  WHAT KIND OF VIDEO STORIES WORK BEST FOR THE WEB?  Story telling 101 Examples of newspaper video

3:00 PM  BREAK

3:15PM  THE ESSENTIALS OF EDITING. Introduction to Final Cut Pro, compression for the web, enhancement of frame grabs for the print edition

4:30 PM  WHAT EQUIPMENT DO WE NEED? WHERE TO GET IT

4:45 PM  Q&A, FINAL REMARKS

5:15 PM CLASS CONCLUDES  

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