Whew! What a week it was last week… Last Wednesday, I brought pal and photog instructor guru Zack Arias into my studio for another episiode of chasejarvisLIVE. We chatted photography for 2 hours and took questions from the live Twitter audience via #cjlive. Was a blast. While about 20,000 of you caught the interview LIVE–it seemed like I got at least that many tweets/emails/fbook requests to post it again here on the blog, so… As you wish. Here ’tis.
From there, we shipped Zack and his crew into our creativeLIVE studio where he put on one heckuva studio lighting course all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully you saw the interwebs booming, especially with the @creativeLIVE and #askzack tags. I’m pretty sure Zack swiped some ratings from the World Cup. Or at least we had fun trying. I wanted to give a huge shoutout to Zack and his team for an amazing effort. You guys and gals nailed it. Also a shoutout also to all the manufacturers that kicked in gear for Zack to give away, as well as uber thanks to B&H Photo Video for their support of the creativeLIVE studio and G-Technology for keeping our gobs and gobs of data safe. They support us, please support them. I hope lots of you tuned in. And if you didn’t but wished you had, the course is available for download here.
While I’ve got you, I wanted to ask for your feedback. Not somebody else’s…YOURS. In the comments below, we’re looking to find out a few things with the goal of making creativeLIVE the best it can be. Tell us whatever you want, but please help us by answering some or all of the following particulars about our LIVE, free, worldwide creative education platform:
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
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Hi Chase, I’ve already thanked Zach a million times, he has been such an amazing and unstoppable instructor, and I want to thank you too for putting this together; it was truly exciting.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? It’s different because I can watch it live from my lounge room and I don’t have to travel to participate; it’s better for the same reason and because it is taught by the best instructors; it’s even better because it’s free, altough, for such a full on 3 days intense workshop I wouldn’t mind to pay a reasonable fee ( and maybe have the download included in the price )
2. Where do you live? Sydney , Australia; I watched it live at ridiculous hours, but that’s not your fault ;when are you guys coming down under?
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? I think it definitely does: we have the chance to interact with the instructors and with like minded people around the world, and you have a great marketing-targeting strategy to develop after this.
What does the experience feel like to you? I tell you what: after 25 hours or so of watching Zach teaching and joking and basically just being himself, it’s like now I know this man a little; this makes me feel a bit special, this is good use of the internet!
Please do more stuff like this and definitely get Zach again !
1. The informality of the class format makes it more accessible. Working within a schedule but without a script breaks down the you and me feel that other seminars and instead feels like its more about us. Not you and me, us. And we’re gonna nut this out together. Engagement. That’s it. Engagement.
2. Adelaide, Australia.
3. The live worldwide format destroys barriers. By bringing thousands of like-minded people into the same place and enabling a means for live feedback and interaction, your format is less like a sermon from the mount and a lot more like a bunch of friends shooting the breeze on a shared love.
Thanks CreativeLive!
You are the perfect combination between Wikipedia and Universities.
Greetings from México.
1. I hadn’t taken any other photography course prior to Zack’s; couldn’t say. I will say that seeing it live was nice. Even seeing the snafus I thought was a bonus, because if it happens to him there, I know what to look out for.
2. Near Washington, DC (EDT/EST time zone)
3. The format works for me. I don’t know if it’s specific to the instructor/video crew or not. In general, I like the idea; sitting in on a class, getting feeds from the monitor and different angles was great. Seeing the side-by-side comparisons on “this is what the difference between 7′ octo and 28″ softbox is” was something that I’ve been looking for for a long time. Having the later rebroadcast was perfect. When a class occurs during the week, I’m at work and can’t catch it. I also can’t justify to my spouse the expense of buying the courses afterward.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
The creative LIVE approach is unique, especially for those who get to watch it live. It’s like being front and center of an actual in-person live seminar–there is no bad seat and it’s free! Then, when I have a question, I can ask it, just as if I was there in person. And there are so many people watching that, if I feel my question is too dumb to ask, there’s a hundred other people with the same question that aren’t afraid to ask.
2. Where in the world do you live?
Katy, TX, a rapidly growing town in the west Houston suburbs. I laugh when I say suburb because when I was a kid growing up in north Houston area, Katy was a spot in the road so far out in the boonies we didn’t consider Houston. Now, the Houston suburbs extend well past Katy.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
The live part works for me since I am currently unemployed and can take time during the day to watch the weekday classes. If I was working, the weekday classes wouldn’t work for me (but if I was working, I could probably afford to buy the classes). But the weekend re-watches would help then. I can’t justify the cost, as low as it is, until I get a job or get my new business running well, but then, I wouldn’t be home to watch the live versions during the day. I also really like the intensive weekend class like the one just finished with Zack (with a K, not an H). Even though I didn’t get to watch all of it. I was able to still get a lot of very useful info and when I would be gone for a while, when I got back, I was able to get right back into the flow of things.
Thanks for this great concept!!
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Robert