I had a graphics designer take an ugly rough diagram sketch I created in MS Paint, and turn it into something that people could actually understand and appreciate.

The diagram outlines how a project moves from the idea stage to completion, and how the team member pieces move and interact with each other throughout a project’s life cycle.

My team is doing everything possible so that people can more easily grasp how Spidvid works, and how the platform can benefit their video and film production projects. If you have any questions or need some clarification on anything you can contact us directly, or leave a comment below.

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Collaboration for film producers, directors, screenwriters and other video production talents has never been as easy as it is today. With the advent of Google Wave, the new generation online collaboration tool, film production individuals can now easily share ideas, scripts, video and music clips and other items with just a few clicks, dragging and dropping.

Google Wave features and extensions help visual artists, screenwriters and writers to paint, draw and plan projects in real-time and collaborate with team members with revisions and improvements right away. We think that this collaboration tool will be really helpful for talented individuals at Spidvid for faster and much more efficient file sharing, drawing, designing and editing in real-time.

There are various bots (or robots) such as the scriptwriting bot which aids scriptwriting in faster editing of scripts. Video makers could now take advantage of easy file sharing in submitting their videos. Gone are the days when a scriptwriter has to worry about his scripts exceeding the file size limit with emails. Directors and producers can now easily share music, video clips and other necessary files for the film production and even play some games with their team while simultaneously generating and processing the video production. Making films and videos through the help of Google Wave and Spidvid as collaboration tools drives the production costs dramatically lower. Video production has never been this fun, interactive, cost-effective and all in real-time.

Spidvid’s platform continues to attract music talents, graphic designers, producers, directors, screenwriters and video creators while it’s currently in private beta testing these individuals realize that creating and sharing video ideas and scripts has never been this organized, cost-effective and interactive. It also proves that through collaboration of many talents around the world, there has never been a better time for producing quality video content.

* Check out the Candler blog by Jonathan Poritsky to get more information on the filmmaker’s wave.

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When most people think of funnels in business the infamous sales funnel is what normally comes to mind. The large part of the funnel are the leads,  followed by the prospects, and finally the customers who actually buy the product or service.

So using the sales funnel as a reference model, I have created the video production collaboration funnel. So the large part of the collaboration funnel are the exciting new projects posted by creators, followed by team collaboration, resulting in a produced video, and the best part which is distribution to viewers.

Production Project – It all starts with the creator having an idea or script, and then finding the right combination of talent to build a team which can execute on the creator’s vision.

Team Collaboration – Each individual plays his or her part on the team, and contributes value towards the main goal which is producing a quality video.

Completed Video – Thanks to all of the hard work by the team, a video gets completed and earns its right to be shown to the world’s viewing audience.

Distribution – The video is uploaded by the creator, and each team member gets the pleasure of receiving credit and any monetary compensations that may come their way through sponsorships and/or advertising.

The key here is to improve the odds so that as many videos as possible get produced and distributed. It all starts with quality projects to catch the interest and attention of professionals so that they are motivated to join the creator’s team.

The average sales funnel sees about 1% (sometimes more, sometimes less) of people becoming customers, our hope is that the collaboration funnel sees a much higher percentage than that. And through some remarkable teams and a little luck we will see some big time video hits that reach millions of engaged viewers.

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Online social networking sites are excellent for communicating with friends (like on Facebook), having conversations and sharing media with people who are interested in the same things you are (like on Twitter), and connecting with professionals in your industry (like on LinkedIn).

Traditional social networks have many great benefits to offer, but for the most part don’t focus on offering exciting opportunities such as team building to achieve common collaborative goals. I believe that the next evolution in social networking is to empower individuals to accomplish tasks and projects, and to reward the deserving individuals for the content that gets created as a result.

So another way to think of Spidvid is as a social network with the purpose of allowing individuals to form teams, collaborate to create and produce quality video content, and credit those who invest their time and talent into the content.

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A video entertainment creator/producer can go a couple of ways to put together a quality piece of video content.

1. Pay out money to individuals who can give them the team and talent needed to execute on their ideas, objectives, and scripts. This is the way that most professionals are used to doing deals in the video production industry with studios, but it’s not the only way now thanks to the new social web that’s providing access to new potential opportunities. Bottom line: each professional gets a set figure amount, but the individuals at the top (i.e. studio executives, creators, producers, etc.) obtain most of the credit, compensation, and profits that result from the monetization success of the content. Breakdown: the vast majority of power and benefits reside at the top.

2. Connect and collaborate with the individuals who believe that a new creation model is now possible via the social tools at our disposal. A production team is put together by the creator where each individual contributes his or her time, unique talent, and skills to the video project. Bottom line: Each individual on the team gets credit and compensation as set by the creator, but initially negotiated on collectively as a team. Breakdown:the team collaboratively decides on how the credit and resulting compensations are allocated to each member.

It must be clearly stated that professionals will still want to keep their traditional “safe” paying projects to pay the bills, but passion projects that position individuals as content owners should also be of interest.

Spidvid.com provides the social framework for individuals to pursue passion projects with other like-minded individuals.  These projects will lead to some very entertaining, high quality videos.

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