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?
Thanks for taking the time! If you’re new here, I invite you to subscribe/follow via links above and to the right. Lots more stuff heading your way soon on all our channels…
It was different cuz it was FREE!! A ton of helpful information and I appreciate it! I’m in Germany by the way and had no sound/video issues at all.
I guess that would answer the last question, huh? 😀
Forgot to mention – I am tuning in from Santa Barbara, CA. Several of our local camera club
members are tuning in, and friends in a Video club in Palo Alto also. Only high praise and gush notes.
1. The idea behind CreativeLIVE is unique, in that it offers viewers an opportunity to ask questions while the instruction is happening and get real time feedback.
2. Seattle, WA
3. The CreativeLIVE format works . . . kinda. The problem is that there are so many viewers that the chances of actually getting a specific question answered is nearly impossible. Additionally, anyone who tunes in late ends up asking the same questions. Perhaps there can be a FAQ board where one of the moderators posts answers to the most commonly asked questions. Even starting out with a gear/software list and why the instructor chose that gear/software (normally lots of questions on this topic).
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
Better in many ways. I like the stream of consciousness way Zack taught instead of rigidly sticking to notes. It was helpful to see him (and the others) actually have to tweak things instead of having it be perfect immediately.
Being able to watch his interaction with his subjects was especially valuable.
I would like to see more shots of the Lightroom computer – I like to SEE the results.
2. Where do you live?
I’m in Exmouth, Western Australia. Roughly 1200kms from the closest city. As you can imagine, it’s not easy accessing learning opportunities here! Having the replay was excellent otherwise I would have had to start at 1am. This way, I started at 6ish when I woke up and watched the second half of the course and watched the first half later in the day.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
Absolutely. The interaction with the Twitter feed was great, if a little limited. A question I asked got answered, though with the 140 character limit the spirit of my question was lost. The answer was very good and valuable, it just didn’t address what my intention was in the question LOL
Thank you for offering this incredible resource – you all did an amazing job.
The format is very helpful for learning (especially when purchasing a copy of it so I can repeat learning parts of it). The entire concept is amazing. Global education,–I don’t have to rent an apartment next to a university or school, etc. to obtain the information.
One thing that would be helpful to me is if you could list/post the full filename of each download on your Download list so I can match up what I have already downloaded and know which ones I have not yet downloaded. Yes, I do keep a list of downloaded files, but there is nothing on screen to match the filenames that I have with the sessions available for downloading.