Whenever I give a talk or host a show, my fav part is the Q&A. Rather than me guessing what I should share, you just ask away. Especially the hard questions that you can’t learn in photography books: landing clients, overcoming failures, working with challenging clients, legal, gear, portfolio questions, whatever it might be. In this year’s first #AskChase version of chasejarvisLIVE, I got thru about 40 of your questions in the 90 min show. This time around, I’m hoping to double that, plus we’re adding another dimension.
The first half of the show will be me answering any questions you can put in the comments below. Rapid fire, as many as I can get thru. So don’t be shy, ask anything you’d like below and I’ll give you a shout out for asking it and do my best to answer with the dirty truth. But catch this: the second half of the show, I’ll have a guest with me. The Associate Creative Director for REI, Jason Sutherland. If you have been ignoring me are new here, then you’ll need to scroll back a bit and read the Diary of a Shoot I just wrapped up, where I chronicled my 9 day campaign shoot with them. Jason will be on hand to answer your specific questions, but also any/all your general questions about whatever you want to know from a client CD/AD perspective. Hopefully this is as good as gold.
Who: You, Me + guest Creative Director Jason Sutherland + a worldwide gathering of creatives
What: YOUR questions answered for 90 minutes
When: this coming Wednesday, April 6th at 10:00am Seattle time (1pm NYC or GMT -8)
Where: just visit www.chasejarvis.com/LIVE
How to get your questions on the show: ASK THEM IN THE COMMENTS BELOW
We will take some questions LIVE via the #cjlive or #AskChase hashtag on Twitter (follow @chasejarvis here) during the broadcast, however, so that we can be organized and get through as many questions as possible, you’re far more likely to get your questions answered by framing them below in the comments.
It’s free, it’s LIVE, and apologies but this video will not be re-posted in it’s entirety, so please tune in LIVE if you can. (We’re still in a technical gear/podcast/youtube transition at the moment, figuring some stuff out.) Hope to see you Wednesday. The more people participate, the more interesting it will be for everyone involved. Feel free to invite anyone you’d like to join the party.
Chase,
With the herculean efforts that went into the Telluride shoot, it seems that directing the actors/models is a crucial element.
Could you talk about your directing style, and how you developed it, having not come from a movie background.
Hello Chase,
do you deal yourself on searching for work and communicating with clients?
Or its your producers work?
For Jason:
Does CJ having a large web following and the day to day blog of the shoot play into him getting the job/bid at all? out of the group of people that could pull off the shoot you did why him? Does the built in audience he brings play into it? Is it an added marketing bonus for you or did it play no role at all? Thank you.
Hi Chase,
I’ve been wondering:
Q: Who decides the composition of the photo…you or the art director/creative director? Or is it a collaborative process? And at what point do you enter the creative process?
Q: Do you make drawn sketches in advance ( but after the initial scouting ) so you know exactly what to aim for?
I’m looking forward to CJlive session, for once I actually have the opportunity to see it live! ( My nice boss let me off the hook and let me come in for work later tonight! )
Best regards from Denmark
Anne-Marie
+1 to Andy! How do you get commercial gigs?