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…
Well I have to say i’m impressed with the format , I love what you, CreativeLIVE, Vincent and Zack have done so far. The live element is working, it does depend a LOT on who is watching in house and online to ask questions but come on we all are here to learn so were gonna ask questions. I can only compare it to DVD’s and the only seminar I have seen and its better than DVD and the seminar. The price you guys charge for this is truly astonishing, where else could we get this kinda training for this cheap a price, you would need your head examined not to pay to keep the Zack or Vincent video’s.
Stay in Scotland UK so I tend to watch live when able, the catch would be great if it were later ie start 8 am GMT following morning but if its something I love then i’m paying so no biggie.
You all are inspiring a whole lot of us by offering this service and I applaud ya’all.
Scott
1. I love the idea of what you are doing. I got to watch the one where they were going through the intricacies of shooting video with an DSLR. My biggest issue is time and my lack of remembering that something is going on. I find that I just don’t have the ability to commit the whole amount of time to watching the entire show, and so I end up missing a bunch of it.
2. I live in Kelowna BC Canada. I wouldn’t probably ever be able to make it down to one of the live events, but would watch online.
3. I believe the format does work. My biggest problem I guess is that this is like TV. You are requiring people to watch it (free) at a specific time, which is on your timetable and not the users. What would make this a better setup, is to have the live event, and whomever can make it watch it, then have it available for x amount of time, say 1-3 days after the event, then after that, it can then be available for purchase. My problem is that I have free time in the evenings, not during the days, so I have not been able to watch a full session, only bits and pieces.
Hello,
First off I am a paying member I have bought a class, and believe in the idea. I live in Knoxville Tennessee, and have a degree in Animation. I have taken classes on my own, online, and in a classroom environment.
So what attracted me to Creative Live was the content, I know you have been moving expanding but with all due respect you need to diversify like you were. You have some great, great, instructors and I have really learned allot from the classes I have watched. I even talk it up at work and email my friends, and people I work with. Don’t change anything except for some .
diversity in what you offer. Watercolors was great, this weekend class was the first one I had been able to spend some time watching, it is all good. Thanks for all the hard work you put in behind the scenes I work for a cable network it isn’t easy
Rick
1. It’s superb! Live, full lenght and answering viewers questions on the spot…
2.Lithuania
3. This format is good, also thumbs up for replay/rewatch, it lets you choose to sit and watch till 3-4 AM, or watch replay.
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The class is almost like being there! This is so much better that reading or listening to some boring lecture. Photographers are visual people and most of us learn better by seeing it being done and explained in no nonsense terms. Zack was fabulous. Being able to ask questions and get answers from Zack and others in the chat room was extremely beneficial.
2. I’m in Tampa Florida. As much as I’d love to go to Seattle that is just not possible. The beauty of the internet is that thousands of us were able to participate yet it was a small intimate setting.
3. Yes this format works, As bandwith and availability increases this is the wave of the future and you guys and gals started it all. To someone who has never experienced it I’d say “Its like going to a college level class naked! You’re there but no one can see you.” LOL