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? How does our class format compare to others?
Doing it, that’s what makes them different. And being more casual and less formal, makes it fun and comfortable to watch and learn.
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’m watching you from Israel. I watch the LIVE feed on time (live) when it starts and trying to keep up all night, and than if I fall asleep, I watch the rewatch.
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?
It’s fabulous. On the LaForte weekend the streaming was so so, but on Zack Arias, it was smooth and enjoyable. It feels like almost beening there in the class.
Describing the format seems easy enough:
It’s an online live weekend seminar.
Thank you Chase and Zack so much for sharing.
Noam Armonn
Isarel
This was definitely a great help. Zack’s work is totally inspiring and he’s a great teacher!!
1. The approach allows a large audience attend the class and interact. Also having live participants there to ask questions was helpful. I wasn’t able to attend the whole class, just a few hours here and there over the weekend. By being able to watch it free I was able to decide it was WELL worth my money to buy the videos. Additionally, having the discount forced me to buy before the end of the class. Even if the regular price was 79 I may have delayed and forgotten to buy. This is the best format for taking a class for a test drive before you pay. Thank You for this…..
2. Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
3. I liked the replay. Even though I am on Eastern Time I was busy during the day and able to watch some portions during the replay.
Honestly this is the best way to sell a workshop to me. I don’t have the time to dedicate to watching it in one shot or even taking a whole weekend to travel to a class. I felt that by dropping in on the class live I wasn’t seeing a preview of just the best parts. I was seeing a good representation of the whole class. This is the first workshop/ video I have paid for.
Zack was top notch as a teacher and presenter. Great job.
Huge Thank you 1000 time! It was great and This format really work! I’m from Siberia watched all 3 days twice each class both American and European time! It’s worth it. Great teacher, interacting, practical knowledge from real photographer, independent view and advice for equipment, and real shoot of
the band!
All the best,
Sergio Toff
P.S.
If you ever think of translating your video to Russian (which speak 293 million people) I would love to do it! Please contact me ready to discuss it in greater details any time!
First of all: Congratulations!
The whole creativeLIVE wibe is spreading arround the globe, and it is inspirational.
1. Live approach has advantages both to cretiveLIVE production team and for the viewers. Having production company I am well aware of production complexity and problems. Also, knowing creativeLIVE high standards and complexity of the events creativeLIVE covers, it would be impossible to have just one ‘go’ per scene. 🙂
On the other hand, as an attendee or just the one who is watching, being able to ask questions is invaluable.
On top of that, being located away from any major area where I could attend such events in person, makes this number one service for me.
2. Croatia
3. It works very well. In my case, it would be much better if creativeLIVE is located on the East Cost or at least operating on EST time. That way creativeLIVE could cover all Europe in reasonable hours. ZA workshop was ending in 4 AM CET, and that is too late even for a hard core guys like me. 🙂
Best regards,
BK