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…
1. FREE live class.
2. Jakarta, Indonesia
3. it works, but for some countries, the internet conection is a big problem, maybe CREATIVElive can make even smaller bandwith/quality live video.
also the time different, it is very nice if everything has schedule and on time.
too bad the people who watch re-run, dont have the chance to ask Zack.
Thank you very much for everything
Creative Live is such an exciting and engaging way to learn subjects online. I really enjoyed watching it live; it felt like I was there in the audience which made the whole experience much more exciting. I like Zack’s show better than the Digital Photography 10wk Corse. It was bigger, different, and more attractive than the other guy just sitting there going through his slides. However, that was also a good class which was very informative. But as far as being a repeat customer Zack walking around seeing the action hands on approach is MUCH more attractive, it was a unique and memorable experience.
I would suggest that you get better with the camera work and organization. That part was a little unprofessional. The bad live cutting between cameras and the shakiness of the image. Also it was very hard to hear anyone besides Zack. Also the whole checklist thing we could do without.
I look forward to being involved again, I would love to see something on some video stuff. Preferably not DSLR but real video. Also set lighting for film/video such as with scrims, hot lights, KinoFlos, outside reflectors and whatnot. Or maybe what would be really helpful would be an in-depth look into cinematography, frame composition, what makes a shot and how to do it.
Just FYI I would consider paying like $5 or so to watch it live. However, that’s only because I know what it is im getting. New commers might be put off by that.
Great Job Do It Again!
To begin with, CreativeLIVE is an amazing resource!
I believe the obvious answer here is that it is interactive with such an enormous audience. I think the fact that it is live is great because you can see the instructors really having to think things through on the spot. That also goes for the “live” students. The only negative I can really see is that the weekend long classes take a big chunk of time to be able to be involved in the “live” aspect. But you would have to commit more time and money to a live workshop. So it’s not really a negative.
I am currently residing in Fort Wayne, IN.
I have learned a lot from watching the two weekend courses that have been offered so far. So I would say, yes, it works!!
Thanks Chase, Craig, all of the instructors, and everyone involved with CreativeLIVE!!
1. I did the download option (pre-pay). The videos are fantastic! I just love Zack! Its the best $79US that I have spent. I have the OneLight DVD, this is the StudioLight follow up version!
2. I live in Perth, Western Australia.
3. Worldwide format work? Well, Aussie broadband is not the fastest, I can’t stay up so late to watch it live, but the cheap download option is absolutely the best way to watch it at my convenience over and over!
1. It opens the subject matter, to not only many more students than could possibly attend it live, but to potentially millions of students around the world, simultaneously, simply an incredible concept!
2. Woodland Park, Colorado,USA
3. Works great! Especially with the ability of any viewer to ask a question and get it answered as the program progresses. Ingenious!