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. I like it is just like a full live class I was attending. I don’t like that “interaction” is not real (only a small % of questions are answered… I understand that it’s impossible to answer all of them), and I think I preffer a shorter, edited, more focused class (with concepts explained one by one, in good pace and order… live class sometimes is a little messy)
2. Spain. Not a good timing neither for live broadcast (from 19:30 til 4-5 in the night) nor re-broadcast (too early in the morning).
3. It’s an excellent opportunity to attend some awesome classes. For free. There are some unconfortable issues, but you can always buy the course and watch it whenever you want. And the “live” show is an extraordinary marketing tool.
1. It’s a great idea and format. I fully appreciate all the great courses, teachers and effort behind the scenes!
2. Santa Barbara, California
I usually watch it live during the day if possible due to day job.
3. I think it works great. Occasionally it’s hard for me to watch the workshops, because often I’m at work and it would be really great if all the classes offer rewatch at a later time of day!
Big THANK YOU to everybody involved in creativeLIVE!
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
I think it’s a brilliant idea to have the online classes for the world to see. Zack’s class was REAL… in the sense that I really felt I was really in that room. And the chatroom was a really cool thing… we were able to ask questions and get more insight / information from the questions that other people (who were also on-line)
so the experience was like you were actually there.
I like how the course was spread out over the weekend otherwise there would have been too much information to take in.
I am looking forward to see another on-line class soon… hopefully still about photography.
2. Where in the world do you live?
I am from Quezon City, Philippines. I was watching the live feed from 1AM-9AM… the replays were a brilliant idea too. I was still able to catch up with the stuff I missed when I fell asleep.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
Hell yea! Kudos to you and the people at creativeLIVE for shrinking the world and bringing so many people from all over the world to share the experience.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse?
The interactivity is the best….you can chat, tweet you are always involve in the class.
The other thing is the LIVE factor, it makes the experience more vivid, more real.
2. Where do you live?
Palmira, Colombia. I put the CreativeLIVE calendar on my iCal so i know when the classes are live.
I watched the whole workshop live.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
Of course. 110% After the succes of Zack’s live workshop, we’re a worldwide community of photographers, we are tune, and we are thankfull with CreativeLIVE and the sponsors. Actually, sponsors have a great opportunity to get live, real, actual review and hands on gear, and it’s a tutorial for their customers.
Finally the not so good part. I think you have a great production team, but need to make some things better.
Your cameramen didn’t nave an intercom system neither a tally, so they don’t know when they’re live. And the camera director gets distracted and we saw a lot of focus adjusments, camera rapid movements and that makes the whole thing look unprofessional, amateur. I think the teacher can make a keynote, as a guide for the class, with nice design and graphics, that gives the class and order and a graphic clarity.
First of all congratulations for the awesome workshops!!!!
Zack, was amazing !!!!!
1 – Much better in so many different aspect, but I think the “Live” feel is the most important, with real time interaction of people. I never watch any web class like this, the other web tutorials, webnars, classes, you name, are very boring (and I love to read manuals, so…)
2. Brazil, and I’m watching the LIVE feeds at home or at studio
3. It is an mazing format, and REALLY works absolutely fine
It’s amazing, you really fell like if you are on the workshop, you fell like a classmate with the other guys
You have to attend it to understand how immersive it is. It’s really, really immersive, making you you fell as part of it