Personal consultations-accomplished via telephone or e-mail
for newspapers, magazines, media companies and private individuals.
Contact
us about your needs and we will help you and your company to get up and running
with visual multimedia production as soon as possible. Call or e-mail us about
the rates for our special 2 hour telephone New Media consultation. NOTE: to enable the most efficient use of this time please
download our pre-consultation form and e-mail it before the meeting date.
In-person consultations-we will travel to your company, listen to what
your company’s goals are and design a specific plan tailored to your visual
journalism needs.
One to three day training seminars for your company staff. Each
organization has their own vision of where it wishes to go with New Media. Our
training sessions will be tailored to help your staff achieve the company’s
goals.
Platypus Workshop training-contact us for rates on multiple staff members
wishing to attend one of our four main annual workshops.
The Platypus Short Courses -
In response to demand, our faculty now offers special two-day short
courses designed to allow individual newspapers, photo agencies and corporate
media operations to get their photographic staffs
up to speed on video. In the past year, more and more publications have been
tasked to provide video reports for their web sites. As many have learned the
hard way, shooting video is different than shooting still photographs. There are
new rules that must be learned.
With more than a dozen Platypus Workshops
under our belt, which have transformed the skill sets and lives of the
photographers that have attended them, we have devised a special curriculum that
covers the principles that newspaper staffs need to learn.
The Platypus Short Courses cover the differences between still and
video, the rules and routines of video, sequencing, time compression, an
overview of Final Cut Pro, compression for the web and how to convert frame
grabs into high quality JPEGs that can allow the images to run as a 6 column cut
in the newspaper.
THESE ARE NOT HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS.
There is not enough time in two days to
go into exercises and edits. For this training, photographers should be sent to
one of our regular workshops. However, the training provided in a seminar
setting, illustrated with many videos, will familiarize your staffs with the
basics.
Phase Two: Video/Multimedia Consultation - After the Platypus Short
Course, allow us to further serve your needs by offering specialized
consultation on equipment, such as digital video cameras, microphone, tripods,
general accessories and non-linear computer-based (Mac or PC) editing systems.
Not every organization needs the same type of gear. We will help you to save
money by advising only equipment purchases absolutely necessary to accomplish
your goals.
For more information:
Roger Richards (757)348-9591
rmr@dvnetwork.net
Dirck Halstead (512)475-4675
dhalstead@mac.com