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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I’m in suburban Philadelphia.
What makes this workshop/class different from other online training is the ability to participate through the chat rooms, so there is a chance to ask questions. That’s awesome.
For me, this format is amazing, because I have a physical condition that makes attending live workshops impossible. I don’t have the strength or endurance to spend two or three days in a classroom or out shooting in a workshop. For a physically challenged photographer, this was a priceless opportunity.
The free live broadcast is a bold approach. The funny thing is that I am more likely to purchase because now I know what the content is and that I definitely do want the whole piece as a learning tool for future reference.
I live in Charlotte, NC.
This past weekend truly felt like a global event. Lots of questions and chat from all over. The use of social media to really give the classes traction and grow participation is well done.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
– The free live broadcast is amazing and the production values are very impressive. The multiple cameras and audio feeds keeps things from getting boring.
2. Where in the world do you live?
– I watched the live feed on Sunday from my home in Toronto with my Mac Mini media server connected to my TV and audio system. It worked flawlessly.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
– From what I’ve seen, absolutely! I just hope the business model is sustainable.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
We haven’t attended many photography related classes. That being said, your production was clean, your agenda was comprehensive (specifically the Zack Arias lighting), UStream worked well on our end. Your communication was straight forward. We really couldn’t ask for more. It really seems very well thought out.
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?
Phoenix, AZ. We’re from New Jeresey, we watched the live feed this passed Saturday and bought the take out package so we will be able to keep watching it for the invaluable information that was presented. We really love this offering since we work day jobs at the moment.
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?
I thought it was interesting to see people from all over the world on the chat. We’ve described it multiple times since this weekend. We’ve said we attended part of a live workshop that is interactive using UStream (which we want to check into more) and also purchased the taped event for future viewing. We think you have a solid plan and product happening here. Thx to the creativeLive team for all of there efforts.
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The interactive element definitely sold it for me, being able to get my own questions answered straight away was fantastic. I think there was something for people at all skill levels to take away and learn from, purely because the audience could steer the teaching if it was necessary.
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I was watching in England, the live feed was on from about 6pm to 3am,
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It works, I definitely feel like I’ve attended Zack’s workshop in person. perhaps there could be a cheaper price point for those that just want to stream the tutorials once instead of downloading them?