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? One of the best learning ideas i’ve ever come across. You bring in photographers who know how to communicate their ideas. It’s live and fun!
2. Where do you live? From Sydney, Australia. Woke up at 3am and sat on my behind watching the class for 8-10 hours straight. When you’re offering this kind of knowledge, who can so no :).
I’ve also pre-purchase Zack lecture because I knew it was going to unreal…. plus Zack little sales pitch sealed the deal!
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? Plain and simple – IT ABSOLUTELY WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched the live feed over the weekend with zack on creative live and I thought it was great. I can’t tell you how much it means to me that you (Chase) made something like this avalible for free to people around the world. Im a 30 year old married father of 3, and I don’t have the time or money to go to a Lighting Workshop of this magnitude. So Thank you and everyone involved, the feed was great the workshop was great and Zack and his team was great.
As far as this Interview goes well done, I would have paid for this… I got so much out of this interview ( it started turning the wheels in my head)
I think you and Zack should collaborate and make a REAL critique website where members can post a photo and get honest comments (not from the pixel peepers) about how the photo made them feel and what they don’t like about it. I noticed you both taked about it and I think you should take that idea and run with it…(Like you dont have enough on your plate) Maybe someone will start one up…Maybe me???
Again, Thank you for all the knowledge can’t wait for the next class
Peace
Gary
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different and definitely better was the quality of the broadcast. The images were razor sharp and whilst there were problems with mics that didn’t work etc, this was sorted out really quickly.
How does our class format compare to others? I’ve only done software based web training prior to Zack’s amazing workshop, so the format was very different in that we got to see the people and faces behind the training.
2. Where do you live? Melbourne, Australia. I tried to watch as much as I could live [the first day started at 3 am my time] but greatly appreciated that Creative Live went to the trouble of replaying each day’s workshop at a later time for those of us in different time zones.
With so much wonderful content coming out of the US that is just not realistically accessible for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere time zones, it was really fabulous to find a provider who proved they really does care about providing the workshop to a worldwide audience.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? Yes. I didn’t hang out in the chat rooms but did take part in the twitter stream, and there was quite a bit of Q&A between participants too which was great.
What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it? Workshops via video conferencing is the best way I can describe it. But instead of asking questions verbally, this was done via chat room or twitter.
I have pre-ordered the workshop and I’m really glad I did. There was so much content that I just couldn’t take it all in at once,and I’m really looking forward to getting it. I just hope that all the craziness, joking around, and thank yous at the end etc makes it to the final cut because they are definitely all part of the experience.
A huge thank you to everyone involved. 🙂
I didn’t think I’d sit down to watch all 2 hours of this, but I did. Awesome discussion and full of insight. Great job guys.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
It’s different in that there is no hands-on approach, but it’s quite obvious why that is lacking. The content is great and to be in the audience learning is still a great way of learning
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 from Vancouver Canada, north of 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?
Yes it does. I absorbed so much information, took notes down for important information. It was like sitting down in a lecture hall.
I do have a paid invoice from PayPal but not from creative Live and not on the “My courses” page
Debbi Smirnoff
Debbie –
I’ve gotten your emails and replied to them. Have you been able to access your downloads?
If not please email training@creativelive.com so we can get the problem worked out.
Thank you –
David Ingersoll
creativeLIVE Customer Service