Been on our tweeting game lately! Check out our last 7 days of useful tips, resources, entertainment, and interesting film bites below.

• Tips on Scoring for Film and TV: Here’s the video #filmscoring #filmscore #scoringtips
• One the best filmmakers EVER is now on Twitter, welcome James Cameron (@JimCameron)!
• How to Turn a Film into a Web Series: ‘No Clean Break’ Sees Second Life via TubeFilter #webseries
• Shannen Doherty talking about her web series via New York Post #ShannenDoherty #webseries #interview
• Sell Your Movie For Maximum Profit via Filmmaking Stuff. Bonus: can you spot the Spidvid logo?
• Video creators and producers: Need some encoding help for your online videos? Here’s some –> via OnlineVideo.net
• Watch and learn video creators: 10 Incredible Interactive YouTube Videos via Mashable
• Want To Create Better Web Videos? Keep it Short via CreativeCOW.net #webvideo #videoproduction
• Sundance Announces Award-Winners; More Films Acquired at This Year’s Festival Than Ever Before? via No Film School
• When Good People Write Bad Scripts via JustEffing.com
• Collaborative film “Life in a Day”, shot entirely by YouTube users, makes it’s debut at the #Sundance Film Festival via Inside Movies
• BBC News – Student experiment films Earth from stratosphere via BBC
• Camera Placement and Shot Framing Advice via YouTube
• The Top 5 Viral Videos of January 2011 – From Kobe Bryant to hyper-active penguins, this list doesn’t disappoint via Spidvid
• Elite web series producer @markgantt has a new web show called “Love Makers”! What do you think of the trailer? via LoveMakers.tv
• Animating Text Along A Path In After Effects – AE Basix via Aetuts
• Gotta Love Micro-Budget Indie Filmmaking via Deadline
• Our community’s videos are about to hit 300,000 views! Watch a couple videos of theirs on UnleashVideo.com. 81 more views to go! (a shout out to our awesome production community, and the view count is now at 308,144!)
• Production Tip of the Day: How to write fantasy stories via YouTube #scriptwriting #screenwriting #storytelling
• Some takeaway thoughts from this week’s #webserieschat via Barrett Garese
• A ‘Web Pilot Festival’ where a team has one week to write, shoot, edit and deliver a pilot episode for a web series, via Celebrate the Web
• Creative Capital to Award Twenty $10,000 Film/Video Grants, Now Open for Applications via No Film School
• For filmmakers: Turn Your Mommy Person Into a Demon Thingy via FilmRiot
• Multiple Video Projects At a Time via Spidvid #videoprojects #collaboration #newmedia
• Production Tip of the Day: How To Make a Music Video of Your Band via YouTube #productiontip #musicvideo
• Subscriptions: The Secret to A Sustainable Web Series? via NewTeeVee #webseries
• 4 Ways to Boost Viral Video Sharing During the Holidays via Mashable #viralvideo #videoviews #socialvideo
• The Fine Bros Interview @JimCameron via Web Series Today #filmmaking #JamesCameron #legend
• Production Tip of the Day: Berklee College of Music Film Scoring Professor Sheldon Mirowitz discusses the Composer/Director Collaboration via YouTube
• Looking for guest bloggers on Spidvid! If you would like to submit an article, contact us with your ideas http://www.spidvid.com/contact.php

The top Spidvid project completed/video uploaded this week goes to the team behind “Narrated Sex” as embedded below. If you had a bad week just watch this HILARIOUS video, because it will make you laugh and ready you for the weekend!

Narrated Sex from Deron on UnleashVideo

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Acting isn’t a skill that someone is born with, it’s an art form which is developed over a long period of time in which the actor must practice, fail, learn, and eventually grow into a dynamic talent. Because actors are the faces of video and film productions they have immense value to directors, creators, producers, and most importantly the viewers who consume the content.

Mercedes Rose has been an actor in feature films and TV shows, is the voice of Princess Rosalina for Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart for Nintendo Wii (very cool!), and has also worked with lots of big brands. Mercedes shares her knowledge and passion for acting through her “The Lazy Actor” vlogs. We have posted a few of our favorites below, so enjoy! Also, be sure to subscribe to Mercedes’s YouTube channel to stay updated on all her future content.

Tip: Tape yourself auditioning.

Bartering with others.

Be positive and confident.

Social media etiquette.

What is it that you’re naturally good at?

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This is a guest post by a remarkable video script writer friend of mine, Jerry. Jerry offers tips for what to look for in a video production school, and tells his own personal story based on his experience.

I went to college for video production, much to the dismay of my family. They were sure I was making a huge mistake, and they let me know that they thought I should reconsider my choice. This went on for months leading up to me going to college, but I didn’t pay their remarks or worries any heed. In the end, I didn’t end up with a job in video production, but I can’t say that I regret my decision. Life tends to take you where it wants you to go not matter what you think. I learned a lot more than video production at college, and these things have become handy in my current career as a writer.

I attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and I learned both audio and video production there. I went at a bad time however, because they revamped the course while I was in the middle of it. It used to be strictly by their itinerary, and I just took the classes they gave me. In the middle of my education there, they switched it to electives, and you could major in audio or video production, and take more specialized classes. Because I was half way done with my education at this point, this did nothing to help me. In fact, I missed out on quite a few classes because of it.

Though my video production dreams didn’t pan out, I’m happy to say a friend of mine now has a great job, and has a great career ahead of her. She works in video production for a company that does a lot of high profile work for large corporations and even a few sports teams. I also have a lot of friends who were successful in concert production jobs, and I have run into a few of them at concerts I have attended in recent years.

If you want to go into video production, do your homework first. Find a bunch of possible schools, and have a good look at what classes they offer. Find out how much hands-on training they offer, and see if they have an internship program. There are quite a few schools for video production, but you don’t want to waste your money on the wrong one. Visit each school before you decide, if you can that is, and ask about graduate success stores and job assistance after graduation.

If you are attending a video production or film college and are looking to start a project, or find a project to collaborate on with others, why not grab a free Spidvid account and get started today.

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