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…
I love the concept! I agree it is hard to stay glued that long but thats what the downloads are for. Liked Laforet’s class (saw about a third to half) and loved Zacks class (saw about 2/3’s or more).
What could you do better… Goal is wide scale cheap easy teaching… what about on the fly publishing of some of the sub-common questions forum style I guess and have a live rolling forum going with all the users able to publish answers. (I understand this could be very difficult to control some of the flaming and verbage on the fly but if it could be done it would be incredible.) You have thousands of people all online at one time with varying degrees of knowledge. Tons more questions could be answered beyond what gets picked out and we could contribute to others with less knowledge (as time and opportunity arises during the class of course)
Lastly I like that I watch for free and decide if I want the download however it might be nice to have a donate or pay something button. I may not want the full download after watching but would likely pay something (based on the value I got out of it). Not everyone would use this but I understand I would be paying covering for some of those that cant afford it. If this would continue this series and bring more and equal caliber teaching I would definitely do it.
Opps forgot to do my part and answer your questions.
How is it different. Mentioned it before a little… watch first pay later. It’s a little more free form flow which while not as compact and fast pace as some other formats gives a homey/real feel.
I loved Zacks method of showing how to do it on the cheap and how to do it as the level of required sophistication increases.
I currently live in the USA, IL
Yes I think it works. Its kind of you get what you pay for (but its all a great deal)… if you can sit glued for that long and that many days its free and if you want watch in chunks of time at your pace you pay more… regardless of if you pay or not pay its a killer deal for the info if its info your looking for.
Future class possibility…Posing maybe a one day’r possibly tied to something else.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I’ve taken a number of different course, in a variety of formats including a fair number of photography & art type courses. Both virtual and in-class. I’m very impressed with your approach, and look forward to the final product, not just for the content but to complete the whole production experience. I find most, not all virtual classes kind of boring. This was interactive, interesting, and unique.
I look forward to future courses. If future instructors are as dynamic and as forth coming in sharing their knowledge as Zack, you’ve hit a home run.
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 northern Ontario, Canada, in the city of Sudbury. I basically ran your feed 24-7 to fit in as much as I humanly could given my schedule this past weekend. I’m a computer technologist in a community college, and photography is my newest passion.
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 was by far the best virtual experience in learning that I have participated in, to date. I felt like I was a part of the class, and was just as nervous as the first student that got up to do the live lighting session with a model under Zack’s guidance. I was almost afraid I’d be put on the spot next, somehow…..
I’ve been detailing the class structure to my workmates – virtual technologies and classrooms are one of our current directions — the best I could do was to say they needed to experience a class themselves. We don’t have your production capabilities at our disposal, but I think it will give them a basis for a quality class.
Again, I look forward to being able to go through the class again, and again. I also look forward to the next class that I’ve already registered for: Watercolour.
Keep up the good work.
thanks to all who put the event on, all the hard paid off
rob
1. CreativeLive is unique to it’s own. Having the ability to just go to a link and connect immediately, it’s just SIMPLE! The big screen and live feed below from the viewers is awesome. It’s very user-friendly. The only thing I would suggest (and I know you guys did this)…..but, maybe have a better way of answering the questions from the viewers a little quicker…..or just have someone ask a few and have them answered every 15-30 minutes and move on. That way, the questions won’t build up and help with backtracking, etc. Just a suggestion…..possibly result in a better flow of the show and with the viewers. 0ther than that…..CreativeLive is money!
2. I live in Walnut, CA (Southern California)…..but, watched the whole live feed on my mac at our studio, http://photostudiosix.com, in Orange County, CA (Santa Ana).
3. Yes, this format works. It feels like I am part of the workshop and just hanging out. If I have a question, I can ask. And if I have other work to do…..edit, etc….I can do that while listening to the live feed and go back ‘n forth. It’s perfect. The only thing frustrating w/ this particular show……I use to live in Seattle….and it made me miss beautiful WA! And I can easily explain this format to someone else…or better yet….send them the link. It’s so simple, I wouldn’t have to say much! =)
Thank you guyz! CreativeLive and this past weekends workshop with Zack Arias and Chase Jarvis was awesome! It was my first experience with it and it made me realize, once again, how lucky I am to be a part of an industry that truly cares, listens, and gives back to it’s community. We’re like no other.
Rock on!
1. I really appreciate that those who cannot attend “in class” workshops can benefit from the instruction/knowledge right in the comfort/convenience of being home.
2. ATLANTA, GA!!!….ZACK loved your references to ATL and the south….LOL
3. We have high speed wireless internet in our home….Not one issue with connection. I was glued to my computer….it was well worth the time invested…FREE!!!! And Bravo to everyone involved in the planning, development, and execution of this workshop….I know it must have been alot of hard work.
I personally appreciate this form of “giving back” as Zack mentioned……