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? – I like the approach because it makes it feel like you’re interacting with the teacher instead of just listening. You also get to see a personal side of the photographers, which you can’t exactly get with purchased/canned videos. I also like the fact you can interact with the teacher and ask questions via the Twitter and chat room.
The only downside, which this has to do with the fact it’s live, is there are periods of dead video, where nothing is happening. But this is nitpicking, not really a complaint. This also makes it easier for people to keep up with the teaching.
2. Where do you live? – Minneapolis, MN
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? – This is the “internets” age, of course it does!
Chase, love the overall concept of creativelive.com
1. I think the concept is sound, the only online teaching tool that has questions asked live in the studio and through the web. I think the live sessions can be a bit slow, but I bought the edited versions of Vincents and Zack’s to get a cleaner lesson. I just wished the edited versions were available sooner after the class is completed.
2. I live on the west cost, Reno, NV
3. I try to watch the live versions, I do love the fact that you are in the same time zone as me, makes it easier to watch classes.
I hope you continue to do this. I buy other training video through the web and DVD and this is some of the best quality, because you are getting instructors that no one else can get. I think that really makes it amazing. Content is king.
Loved it this weekend, amazing project and great concept. Congrats to all those involved.
1. I love the approach. CreativeLIVE is an amazing website and you’re getting the best photographers around to teach these classes. I love that it’s free if it’s live. It gives no one an incentive NOT to try out the site. With some other sites you have to pay to get to see any decent content. I enjoy the business model of Creative LIVE and think it could be the premier learning site for photography and other creative classes.
2. I live in Memphis, TN and try to watch a good bit of it during the day, but normally have more free time to watch these things in the evening around 7-9pm or even later.
3. I think the Live worldwide works well, I enjoy knowing that I am watching it Live and that the instructor could answer my question if I ask it in the Chat or so forth. I do wish that there was options to watch some of the shorter classes for free if we’re unable to watch it LIVE. Maybe within 3 days of the class, have it available to stream, especially since some of them are only 2 hours and during the middle of the day. There seems to be a lot of dead air on the Live stream, so it would be a nice way to add some filler, and give more people an opportunity to check out a class. The evening rebroadcasts of Zack’s were awesome (even though I bought mine, I wanted to watch as much as I could live or day of)
1. It’s live, so it’s natural. Natural but very professional. Quality contents taught in a ‘personal style’ that every photographer has.
2. South of Spain, so most courses of #creativeLIVE are at night here… so we have 2 options: not to work the next day or only watch the weekend seminars.
3. Do you really have to ask this? I think 75.000 people online watching WHATEVER is good receiving 😉
Keep rockin’