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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At this moment I am pissed at Creative Live. I prepaid the day Zack was announced. I never saw an paid invoice, but figured it would come after Zack’s workshop. It never did. I emailed them on Tuesday and was told I would get a ‘special link
soon.
Today, 3 people I know, bought the series during the showing and have aLL DOWNLOADED THEIR FILES FROM CREATIVELIVE already. I EMAILED THEM TWICED TODAY AND WAS TOTALLY IGNORED!!!!!!!!!
I will never pre-buy again
Now as far as Zack goes, it was the best class I ever took and I watched ALL 3 days. I plan on paying him back by buying his DVD
Debbi Smirnoff
1. I think what makes any education material good is the quality of the teachers. Zack is an awesome teacher and combined with the technical team of creativeLive to bring the broadcast live through to a worldwide audience is unique. Great teachers and great production values. The interactivity allows an engaging educational session which I think is important part of the learning process. A great teacher live on the net is infinitely better than a mediocre teacher from around town.
2. South Africa – I tried sticking to the live feed, which in SA was from 7pm to 3am. But, due to having commitments during normal hours, by the time the live broadcast was on I could hardly keep my eyes open.
3. The format I think works really well. The amount of information and having access to question Zack was awesome while the class is live. Its also great that creativeLive rebroadcasts to accomodate other worldwide audiences. The chat-room and twitter feed were a bit of annoyance at times, so I didn’t really pay attention to any. The production crew I think does an awesome job of broadcasting the event live on the web. As far as other minor gripes go, I would have liked to see a bit more real time of the images that Zack captured especially when going through the list of modifiers. I don’t know if something like a secondary feed focused on the lightroom machine only would help.
To be honest, I was debating pre-purchasing this course and I took the dive before the course broadcast. After watching a bit of the live broadcast, I am glad that I did. Zack is a great teacher and the creativeLive team collaboration put together really good photography education… and Zack being Zack even educates beyond photography.
creativeLive is such an enabler for the worldwide audience. We get to ‘attend’ workshops which would not be otherwise available. So thanks once again.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I think the thing that makes the creativeLIVE approach much better is having the live audience of students in the studio. The instructor isn’t just talking to a camera; he’s interacting with his students. He can see their reaction and use that feedback to know when he’s made his point.
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?
Central Ohio. I watched as much as I could during the live broadcast.
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?
The format certainly worked for me. I learned a lot about studio lighting. For me the experience was almost like being there in the class. I wish I had some lighting equipment here so that I could try some of the lesson material immediately. I would have loved to have been in the studio audience.
1) The CreatveLIVE approach is different because it is live in my house. This is really a great approach it gives the little guy with a short income a chance to participate in an event that could be very cost prohibitive. Your program idea also reaches a global audience who might not be able to attend in person due to other commitments regionally. This is a sound approach to teaching. I also bought the downloads. I really enjoyed Zack. I have his dvd which was fantastic…..This program pushed the envelope to a 5 star rating. I love how you guys talk, and teach to us, not down at us. You speak in a broad diverse manner, making it possible to help the beginner, to the advanced, to the pro. That is a first class speaker educator when you can reach multiple levels of users. You captured me from the beginning and kept me interested with knowledge and levity another good sign of great communitcation.
2) I live in CliftonPark, New York just south of Saratoga Spring the Horse racing city, and north of Albany the Capitol.
3) This format works and please keep it going with great programs like Zacks’. I know I could not afford to go to Seattle for your class but this made me a part of it. I am grateful and thankful for your work.
Thank You!!!!!!
Mark Vinett
1.) The creative live experience gives instant access to in-depth information that creatives need to stay current on technical and fundamental skills in the production industry. It allows us to quickly learn a skill that is usually taught over an entire semester of work, in a shorter time period. It gives thousands of people a chance to ask questions, which enhances the experience because with that many people watching there is a good chance that the course will cover 95% of relevant information due to the diversity of talent and experience asking questions.
It is simply a very proactive way to learn. Learning has evolved and access to information and “how to” videos are ever more present each second. A photographer’s ability to learn new techniques is now easier than ever with online courses and live classes provided by creative live. It is fantastic. In addition, it is an affordable way to learn and bypass the “acceptance” process of colleges and Universities. In many countries in Europe, the government pays for your education and encourages you to stay in school and achieve your masters, doctorate, etc…. In the US, we have a fantastic level of higher education, but is costs way too much, and the process of getting accepted into a program is arduous. With creative live, aspiring photographers and filmmakers can instantly get better through professional guidance and real examples.
2.) I live in St. Louis, Missouri and am an aspiring filmmaker and semi-professional race car driver……..and by race car driver I mean photographer.
3.) This format absolutely works! It is just a matter of time before the word gets out, and more and more people start attending and purchasing the downloads. The downloads are worth every penny! Every single penny. Please keep providing technical classes that we can all benefit from. This entire revolution will create fantastic art and productions…….I am already in the process of creating a photography studio after the Zach Arias event.
4.) I was looking everywhere for this technical knowledge. I stumbled across a live broadcast of cretivelive one night searching for “how-to” videos and was amazed at how effective it was. This is exactly what I was looking for and needed. I am a self taught photographer and filmmaker and it has been an up hill challenge the entire way, but I love it. It’s such a fantastic skill to know. I hope that these skills will allow me to do this for a living one day.
I really feel that I will enhance my technical skills and understanding 10X quicker than reading books and searching for how-to youtube videos…….Thanks again creativeLive!
Please invite me to one of your courses, I will fly out there!
Cheers,
Gary Winchester Martin
EXPAT Pictures.com