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. CreativeLIVE makes the workshops we want from the teachers we want accessible anywhere we are. I love the fact that it is broadcast live since we can interact with the class (ask questions, add details, cheer, etc.). The use of Twitter makes everything more easy : you don’t need to be in front of your computer screen all week end long, they’re gonna tweet you when they’ll come back from lunch !
2. I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (EDT or PST +3).
3. Is I previously said, Zack Arias, Joe McNally, David Hobby, etc. never come to Montreal to present their workshop (so is it for Europe, South America, Asia, etc.). It gives us non-Americans the possibility to virtually attend this kind of event. So yeah, I think this live worldwide format works pretty well. 🙂
Concerning Zach Arias Creative Live
1. Creative Live approach is great, it is just like being at a seminar. You get to see everything going on, it helps to give the feeling of being there in person
2. I live in Kentucky, USA
3. The live format works out very well. This format keeps you involved and interested instead of an edited version where everything is planned and perfected before it is shown. Zach did a great job and would like to see more on Creative Live.
1) The format is very helpful for learning. The LIVE concept is a big plus since we could ask questions and get answered in minutes. Internet is definitely great, and “live” is the way to go.
2) I’m from Italy, and had no sound/video issues (and I don’t own a very large bandwidth)
3) This format totally rocks! I can watch the lesson, ask questions, get answered, grow up my knowledge and then, if I want, I can purchase a copy of the entire workshop to re-watch it again and again. Of course I’ve already purchased my copy, even just to support CreativeLive 🙂
I think that kind of e-learning is a huge leap forward from everything else.
keep up the good work!
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
Live and being able to ask and have questions answered is amazing. DVDs and the like are great but having the course being taught live and being able to participate is really cool. I can’t say enough good things about this.
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?
I live in a suburb of Kansas City. I watched the Zack Arias workshop in my home in the central time zone.
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?
I thought it was really interesting to see chatter on twitter from all over the world. I think if you ran a course that would be in the late hours in my own time zone and it was one I wanted to see I would opt to see it live rather than watch a replay for the interaction you can have over twitter and the chat.
Finally I just have to say I really hope creative live goes gangbusters. I know I purchased the downloads and I saw every minute of the coverage live. I suspect I will come back to the videos time and time again but the reason I purchased the videos is that I think the value you are providing is more than worth it and I want to see it continue. I just can’t say enough good things about creative live and how much I enjoyed the experience!
What makes the creativeLIVE approach different? Different than what? A physical classroom somewhere? A typical webcast? An instructional DVD? Hardknocks U?? I enjoyed the spontaneous nature — warts and all — and the ability to ask questions in real time. I also valued seeing the collaboration of professionals and amateurs alike, on a global scale. Think about it! We could move mountains that way, but that’s a diiferent topic. The LIVE factor is quite appealing. It would be very helpful to post a (reliable) schedule of starting-, ending-, and break times and duration. That gives everyone a chance to stretch a bit, grab a bite, etc. Then again, maybe having a more “flexible” approach is the price of spontaneity.
San Francisco.
The experience is one of feeling more engaged with the learning process than if I were to view something pre-recorded. It also had the excitement and anticipation of a start-up venture. The quality of content was awesome, and I much appreciate all the effort that went into it. I expected a barrage of annoying commercials etc, and less than great instruction, but au contraire! Zack was humorous, down to earth, and full of excellent practical tips. Thanks guys.