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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Thanks for keeping it real gents.
1) Access to live FREE instruction from acknowledged industry greats in an industry where everyone it seems is trying to make money by running workshops vs. actually shooting is phenomenal.
2) Miami, FL
3) I bought the download early Friday because I knew Zack would be awesome. I did watch some of the live broadcast & the interactiveness via Twitter gave a shared sense of community.
First of all, a huge THANK YOU! to Zack Arias, CreativeLIVE and everyone involved in this 3-day workshop. I got a lot out of it, thank you again!
1. I don’t have a response to your first question only because I don’t have experience with other web based teaching.
2. I live in South Carolina, USA.
3. This was a great success. It was well done, very informative, and it was free. Thank you. (Did I say thank you already?) “What does the format feel like to me?” I felt like I was being cordially invited over to learn from people who knew what they were doing. Everyone involved in the production was friendly, professional and informative.
Also, I have to applaud you for re-running the class each day for people on the other side of the globe. Otherwise, it might have been impossible for some of them to view the class sessions.
I have no complaints, but I did want to pass on to you some minor glitches I experienced to help you improve future classes. One was that the video feed would occasionally freeze for about 30 seconds (but I would still get audio). This happened to me about a couple of dozen times during the entire 3-day class, and I don’t know if it was on my end, your end or somewhere in between. And even then it only mattered when Zack was demonstrating something, so I would miss what he was showing us. The only other thing was certainly the result of the class being live, so it would probably be fixed on the post-production videos… and that was that sometimes (rarely) Zack would be showing us something and the camera would cut to a shot of the audience (or something like that) and so we would miss what it was that he was showing us. But overall, these are no big deal and again I would call the production a great success.
Also, I second the motion on Keith Jackson’s idea for a “Donate” button. I think that’s a great idea.
Thank you – one more time – to everyone involved.
Zack Arias’s workshop was the first of these I have seen. I was very impressed with the quality of the feed and the size of the image. It really was close to actually being there.
Apart from that I learned a few things that were worth learning.
I’m looking forward to the David DuChemin workshop and I’d love to see one from David Hobby.
I live in England and don’t have a problem with the time difference.
This is my third Creative Live session. I have watched John Greengo and Scott Bourne and now Zack.
I love the “structured informality” of Creative Live. The feed in incredible and I’ve only experienced a few glitches of being dropped off line. I will continue to watch on the sessions that interest me. I did buy the Zack sessions because I was unable to watch the entire 3 days. It would have been nice to have that broken down into more manageable hours. Those were long sessions to sit in front of a computer, although I will say it was riveting. Zack is such a charismatic person and great teacher. Aside from all the knowledge that he shared, I loved the fact that he encouraged people to give back in some way and that the way he does it is to open his studio as a gallery.
What a wonderful idea and if I ever get a studio I will follow his lead for sure. I just love that and will never forget it. I live in North Carolina. Thanks Chase for doing something so incredible as providing us with all this information and great teachers for free. I know I will be buying more after watching.
Thanks again for all the inspiration and a relaxed platform for learning. Keep wowing us, we love you for it!!!!!
1. Availability, great teachers, interesting subjects. I love how I can just tune in and get tons of knowledge. Or I can download the whole thing, and have it readily available 24/7. So much great stuff, I have learned a LOT. I love how you got live audience as well as “internet audience” – And that everyone can ask questions ect. Just.. everything is great. Really. I cant say anything bad about CreativeLive.
2. I live in Norway. Ive been watching the live feeds in the evening and out into the laaate late night. It was so worth it.
3. Yeah, absolutely. I love the fact that it is world wide. I really do. It makes it so much more I think. Theres something special about it. 🙂 Ive just tried to direct ppl to it and check it out for themselves, because it is such an amazing experience – You gotta experience it yourself to really grasp it I think.