To attend an online lesson, download the Zoom App well in advance, onto your phone. On the day of your lesson (or perhaps try it in advance), click ‘Join Meeting’ and type in 957-455-7300 (Tip – It’s our phone number with some extra zeros if you lose it). The password is the same.

You will be able to see your Mentor and they will be able to see you.

Set your phone up somewhere at an angle that we can see your work from. You’ll see examples of how others have done it below.

The goal of the lesson is to polish the skills you saw in the videos you have already watched. If you have met your prerequisites, you have already watched 2 camera angles in great detail go over the skill that you are about to practice. In the live lesson, mentors are there to reinforce that learning, not replace it. They are there to make sure you understood what you already saw, demo to give you a refresher, watch you to make sure you’re getting it right, demo again and again to just show you bits you missed such as file angles.

To get the best out of your experience, I would suggest getting a tripod from Trade Me so that your phone camera is facing down over your work space. Make sure your phone can be plugged in to its charger from your desk and that you have a good wifi signal.

If you live near another student – get together at the same house/salon and stream in together!

I can’t stress enough that this should be a last resort. You only receive the number of Lessons shown on your Lesson Guide. If you call in sick to a booking, you will have to pay to rebook that lesson.

If you do have to call in sick though, please use the Facebook Group. We have different Mentors on different days and no shared phone line so if you post in here anyone who needs to see it, will. No one wants a PM on their day off 😉