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. Apart from the obvious – that it’s FREE?:) It’s a live, real time learning experience that you can take advantage of in the comfort of your home, taught by working professionals.
2. TRINIDAD & TOBAGO!
3. The format does work, because as I said, it brings real time workshops into your home – you can interact with the presenter and ask questions (and participate in giveaways!:) – I bought the download, even after spending the whole weekend glued to my computer (even though the world cup was going on!) because for one, the content was presented in such an interesting fashion and in such an engaging manner, and two, it was actually very educational…I can finally say that I understand the concept of lighting, thanks to Zack – prior to this course it was a confusing mystery to me – and the benefit of having the material to refer to after the workshop is more than worth the price to download it.
It’s also a godsend to people like myself who live outside of the US, who would ordinarily have to travel to a workshop like that at great expense – I’ve just discovered CreativeLive, but believe me, this wouldn’t be the last course I’m attending or buying from you!
Thanks alot for providing this platform!
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
-The production value is incredible and makes for a very interactive experience
-The talent of the people teaching the classes is top notch
-The live crowdsourcing of twitter questions from people all over the world with different levels of experience means people will ask questions I, as an audience member, may not even know to ask (I get to tap into the knowledge of not only the teacher, but also the experience of the audience via their questions)
-it’s FREE…no where have i been able to get this type of valuable information in this format…there’s something about SEEING how something is explained as opposed to reading it that adds a deeper level of understanding to me…and i have the option of buying later
-the chance to win gear! (though i may need to remove all my followers to do so! ha! :))
2. Alexandria, VA
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
YES! It’s like watching a director’s dvd commentary while he or she makes the film AND you get to ask questions about what’s going on
*while i loved the production value & the multiple camera angles, i would suggest not switching camera angles simply for the sake of getting another angle, particularly when the host (zack) is visually describing something…at that point, seeing the audience member’s reaction isn’t as important as the information being conveyed (minor point going forward)
1) Is the best way to break every boundary to let everyone in the whole world learn from the best instructors. The live format is fantastic, letting not only the people who is physically attending the workshop but the whole world to ask any question and that adds a significant complement.
2) I’m from Venezuela.
3) As I said in answer #1, the live format is awesome. I have broadband internet but is not the fastest. I didn’t have any problems at all streaming in high quality, which is really good.
I can’t help myself of keep saying that creativeLIVE is the best. I can’t believe that apart of giving people the opportunity to grow their knowledge, they gave away awesome stuff, EVEN A LIVE CONCERT..!!!
I’m very pleased I follow the great work of Zack Arias, thus that way I discovered creativeLIVE.
I’m looking forward to see more workshops from creativeLIVE.
Please keep the good work!!!
1. What makes it different?
ITS FREE!
Better?
It’s such good quality material that it makes you want to buy it. Just before doing fundamentals of digital Photography course with John Greengo I did a similar one at one of the best photography colleges here in Sydney. I paid a lot of money and It wasn’t half as good, as well explained, as dense, as easy to understand. The chapter format to download the files is awesome, it makes it easy to find the information you’re after, however it would be good to be able to download it all to your Ipod in one hit.
Worse?
Odd show times (at least for people like me who live “at the other side”)
2. Where do you live?
Sydney – Australia, I watch Live feed at 4:00am
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
It does, I’ve explained it to many but no one would even think about waking up so early to watch it
1. I love how organic the lessons are with questioned being asked from those there and across the interwebs.
2. I live in Ohio and I watched Friday off and on from work. Saturday I caught as much as I could between watching US v. England in the World Cup and seeing the Dayton Dutch Lions play that night. Sunday I watched off and on in between then caught the rest of it during the rebroadcast on Monday morning.
3. I believe it does work great. I would describe it as watching a live workshop where you get your questions answered and learn from experts, who may not be in your area. And best of all, it’s FREE.