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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1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I have not seen anything that compares with this presentation.
I have attended workshops, watched tons of tutorials online, and this is bar none fantastic. Please do more of them.
2. Where do you live?
Casa Grande, AZ
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?
This format is absolutely fantastic. You can watch it live, rewatch it, and even purchase the whole class if you like it that much. The reason I will purchase a DVD of this workshop, is because of what I call the small things, but to me they are the big things, that I want to hear and see again and again….
Jay
1. The semi structured workshop is great, and being able to take questions from ‘the internet’ to clarify a point was excellent, something that you would not get with a pre-recorded seminar.
2. Sydney Australia
3. Actually the live stream didn’t work so great for us… as it started very early in the morning. The rewatch stream was perfect though! Long live the rewatch stream! The chat moderators were key to making it feel like i was actually at a workshop. If i had to explain to someone what it was like, i would tell them its just like being at a workshop, while your at home.
Thanks for offering CreativeLIVE stuff like this. Awesome!
Please send Zack to Australia to do some actual live workshops…
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I’m going to answer this in 2 parts if that’s ok. 🙂
a) Live Show – The biggest thing that makes it different and better for me is that you have a whole team of people there taking questions from a global audience. A lot of the less relevant questions are filtered out and the important ones come through and get asked, and the host (at least in Zack’s case) sets aside time throughout the session to make sure to answer those questions, and answers them completely. There were a few times questions were asked like “would you…?” where he’d jokingly come out with a one word “no”, but then pause and give a qualified and detailed response.
So, I liked the interactivity of it very much.
The only thing that let it down for me (which became fixed as we got to Sunday) was a lack of contact during the breaks. “we’ll be back after a 10 minute break” turned into 40 minutes. That’s fine, but please pop up a timer saying “we’ll be back in at least…” if things are going to be delayed, or put up something so that I know if I’ve got time to go make a coffee, have a pee, etc.
b) Recorded HD Download – Given that the interactivity feature is now lost on a downloaded version of a past show, I think the only thing that separates it from the others is the fact that it *had* a live interactive audience asking the questions the viewer might wanted to ask, or the instructor didn’t otherwise think to include (simply because the instructors do a lot of things out of pure habit and don’t necessarily think to mention it, or think it’s something everybody knows already).
Some of Joe McNally’s videos over at Kelby Training left me with even more questions at the end of it, but is that necessarily a bad thing? It gets me thinking, researching and learning more along the way (Btw, I wanna see Joe McNally on CreativeLive!) 🙂
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?
Lancaster, England. Watching and in the chat rooms until 4am on both Saturday and Sunday, much to the dismay of my wife, whom I woke up on both occasions when I finally went to bed. 🙂
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?
It definitely works for me. I had the chat rooms going in mIRC on one monitor, and the live video up on another monitor, so I could keep up with the chat and watch what was going on at the same time without running out of desktop space. 🙂
If I had to deal with the whole thing on a single monitor in a web browser window, I’m not so sure. Trying to keep up with the web based chat client on past CJLive events (especially once the spammers kick in asking the same question 500 times until it gets answered) was a little troublesome.
1. Creativelive is different compared to other online systems simply because some of the training like Zack Arias class is the best there is. While it may not be as good as being there for the real class, it give you the opportunity to learn as live for free, but for a reasonable price revisit parts of the training until you understand and practice it until you have it down. Now where is my vacuum cleaner.
2. I live on East coast (Washington DC area) training is available here, but like all things requires time to practice and learn.
3. I really believe the world wide format works because the enables use to learn from the best using the internet. I often travel for mine main job and This is a resource I can take along and review over and over again.
CreativeLive is a fantastic idea and hope in continues for a long time.
Watched from Melbourne, Australia. Sometimes “Live” sometimes “Replay”.
An issue for me was my time availability for such a long program. I know the videos are available for purchase… I wanted to watch it while it was happening, to feel like being there.