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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What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others? – It’s a different approach because it offers an opportunity to truely share the creative process. In other workshops, I felt I was being preached to, that the instructor was all about telling me their process and cashing my check. In the CreativeLive classes the info’s there but with the collaborative vibe I encountered recently in the photography community.
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 local, I live on Bainbridge Island. For Zack’s gig I watched from home, a little work, (sh! don’t tell the boss!), and in my car (yeah iPhone) while waiting to pick-up my teenagers. I was also able to listen to the live audio while driving, again through the magic of technology. I’m looking forward to the David DuChemin course in July! I also bought the downloads for Zack’s class, as I knew that on graduation weekend, with family responsibilities, (kids, grandkids, silly day-job, etc) I would not be able to sit through it all as it was happening live.
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 think it works. It’s great that you also do an immediate re-broadcast for those in other timezones. The collaborative feel of the courses I’ve participated in is great. Took me a bit to get used to the chatroom communications. I like that Zack used a twiiter feed as well.
The learning experiece that CreativeLive provides is excellent. I will continue to watch live as I can, and pay/download the courses that I want to add to my learning library.
I also like the interview that you did with Zack, that was very informative as well. Keep the stream for handhelds/phones as well, as it allowed me to catch a couploe of additional hours that I would have missed.
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The attraction of free now/pay later is very attractive to me.
It’s almost like a trial version for software. If you’re busy and can only manage to see a few minutes during live recording, and you like it – then buy it.
I watched Zack live almost the entire weekend and still decided to buy. I don’t think I would have bought the videos without first experiencing that it’s fun, entertaining and extremely high value teaching.
2.) North Carolina.
3.) The experience of watching it live is a good mixture of learning on your own and participating in the class (through chat and twitter).
For me, I had things to take care of last weekend, but could still watch Zack and participate. That’s just awesome!
I think Creativelive is great but I wish each session took place later in the day like 7 or 8pm so people with day jobs can actually watch. Another alternative would to make the downloads free for a week before after their initial broadcast. Just an idea.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
Form the ones I’ve seen, the quality is quite high, and very understandable. Seeing it live is just great.
2. Where do you live? I live in Antwerp, Belgium. THis makes it very hard to see the classes I want (mostly photography). For example, I was very excited to see Scott Bourne, but because it started at 12 AM local time, it’s quite difficult to keep on seeing the class until 2 AM during the week.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? The live sessions work. You feel very involved, totally different from a tutorial you can see on the web. However, seeing as you target a worldwide audience, not everyone is able to see them live. There is the option to buy them, but then I could easily go and watch free tutorials online as well. I would recommend that the sessions stay online and available to stream for maybe 24h. This gives the whole world the chance to see the world-class sessions you organise.
I understand that people buying the downloads helps funding this great project, and it should stay like this. But not everyone is capable of doing so/ doesn’t need it. It shouldn’t be because of a timeframe issue that people aren’t capable of watching the same thing for free than anyone else who happens to live in a favorable timeframe. The 24h to still view the sessions online by stream could remedy this and bring top quality sessions to a huge amount of enthousiasts around the world. This is what I think was the original goal of the project, I just hope more people can participate in the goodness.
Anyway, thanks for the great initiative!
i live on the farthest tip of eastern canada. (St. John’s, Newfoundland)
the live stream never dropped once (and i was watching the WHOLE time. i watched from my livingroom on an hd tv through a macmini.
I’ve turned a couple people onto the workshops because they do work so well. even my girlfriend got excited about monkeying about with my lighting directly after watching zack’s workshop.