Creating entertaining videos can at times be a tedious, frustrating, and non-pleasant activity. There are ways to have more fun while creating videos with your team members, and I’ve outlined 3 of them below.

1. Build your team carefully – Anything in life is more fun when you are around individuals that you get along with, who share your values, and who have an engaging personality. Every time one of my friends tells me that he or she hates their job, it almost always comes down to dis-liking their co-workers. Associate with solid people, build teams that possess good chemistry, and you will have more fun while getting better video production results.

2. Have the right tools, equipment, and software – Have you worked with video cameras, sound equipment, lighting, or video editing software that sucked before? Not too much fun is it! If you don’t have the products needed to get a video project done smoothly and successfully then attract team members who can contribute what’s needed.

3. Choose your projects wisely – Time is such a precious commodity in today’s fast paced digital media age. So why waste time on video projects that are doomed from the start, are clearly going to be no fun, and even if completed will get next to no views or tons of thumbs down as ratings. If you are a video creator please be sure to start with solid ideas, concepts, and scripts. If you can’t get excited about the project you want to develop, then how do you expect to inspire anyone else to?

Have more fun creating videos by using our Spidvid platform and leveraging our community.

Have a 4th way to add that will offer more good times when creating videos? The comments are yours below!

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Announcing the 2nd annual Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival which we are proud to sponsor again this year!

What is this film festival all about? The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival is a young film festival that will highlight independent films from around the corn fields of the Midwest. The film festival is to honor the independent drive Film Makers of the Midwest have to create films without the support of the Hollywood machine. All the films shown will have no funding from Hollywood and will have a completely independent voice. The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival will also be a chance for film makers of the Midwest to come together and network together, thus improving their ability to make impressionable films.

The 2012 event is on April 15th in Urbana, IL, submissions are free and will be accepted until February 20th, 2012. If you have a web series, a short film, or a feature length film, you can submit your content here. There are some great prizes to be won including a feature across our entire network for all winners! Here are the winners from last year, and below is our personal favorite entitled “Bedtime For Timmy” which is a very cute short animated film by Thomas Nicol.

Bedtime For Timmy from Thomas Nicol on UnleashVideo

We are proud to be a sponsor of this fun, new, and exciting film festival, not just because of the event itself but because of the wonderful people behind it too. Cheers to the filmmakers, viewers, organizers, and everyone else involved with Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival, 2012.

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How does a video creator or filmmaker get maximum value out of Spidvid’s community and platform? A great question that we’ve been getting a lot lately, and a question that certainly deserves a public answer to. So without further ado…

6 ways to win on Spidvid:

1. Create your Spidvid profile. Before anything can happen you need to get an account, and spend a few minutes on it to make sure it’s complete and interesting for our community to visit. If it doesn’t kick a** and inspire other filmmakers to connect with you, then you need to improve it ASAP! Here’s a good one to check out.

2. Post a project. Now that you have your remarkable profile created you can post a collaborative video project. The project should tell its unique story, communicate to our community who you’re looking for, where the project is in development, and the other important details that everyone needs to know about.

3. Bid on a project. If you aren’t a filmmaker, but are an actor, screenwriter, editor, or another type of talent then you can bid on Spidvid projects. Be sure to pay attention to where the core team is creating the video. For example, if you’re an actor that’s based in Miami but the shoot is in LA, then you will need to travel for the live shoot to be part of the project. But if you’re an editor based in London then you can perhaps be part of the post-production team.

4. Connect with our community. Our Spidvid community is full of award winning filmmakers, actors, writers, and directors so there is lots of remarkable individuals out there to connect with, learn from, and perhaps collaborate with on future projects. Get some conversations started today!

5. Connect with us. Follow us on Twitter, fan us up on Facebook, subscribe to our blog, or email us (community@spidvid.com) to get the most out of your Spidvid experience. We will point you in the right direction, try to hook you up with project funding or donate to your Kickstarter campaign, connect you with talent you need for your project’s success, or whatever else you may need, we exist to empower our community to thrive in new media filmmaking!

6. Complete a project, ship a video. By building your team on Spidvid, collaborating on the video project, and completing it so you can upload the video for distribution is the ultimate success and win on our site. Every time a project gets posted we always do our best to help teams form which are capable of reaching viral success upon successful execution.

Will update this post as other’s give us a #7, #8, and hopefully one day #100.

Also, we’re looking for someone to design an infographic for Spidvid which beautifully displays current accomplishments by our community to show our overall progress to date. If you can design art like this please get in touch.

Stay updated on all the new Spidvid projects from our community by getting our blog delivered to your email inbox, or read it in your favorite RSS reader.

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You’ve likely never heard of Illinois-based Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival before until just now.

What is this film festival all about? The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival is a young film festival that will highlight independent films from around the corn fields of the Midwest. The film festival is to honor the independent drive Film Makers of the Midwest have to create films without the support of the Hollywood machine. All the films shown will have no funding from Hollywood and will have a completely independent voice. The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival will also be a chance for film makers of the Midwest to come together and network together, thus improving their ability to make impressionable films.

The 2011 event is on April 3rd in Urbana, IL, and below outlines how the day will unfold.

Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival

2011 Festival Listing

2:00pm International Showcase

Wolke Jacob Seifert Bastlerz

Lokschupen Jacob Seifert Bastlerz

Implants Pardis Parker Flying Dish Productions

Afghan Pardis Parker Flying Dish Productions

Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns Pardis Parker Flying Dish Productions

Run Granny Run Nikolaus von Uthmann Envy You Productions

3:00pm Feature Film Showcase

Connor’s Woods Joe Taylor Sleep Creek Films

Dark Matter (Best Feature Film) Tye Wilson Broken Shadow Entertainment

6:00 Short Film Showcase I

Cannibal Caverns Ian Havermale

The Jersey Devil Jon Klemke & Nick Nylen OOO, Candy Productions

The Magician’s Box Ash Ahrens Ash Fire Films

Two Rows In Bob Zimmerman R.A.Z. Films

7:00 Short Film Showcase II

With Me Now Sasan Shabrou Gladius Arts

His First Day Brian Rose

Mogul Tye Wilson Broken Shadow Entertainment

Heart Candy Tye Wilson Broken Shadow Entertainment

Cemetery Blues Matt Packman Legacy Pictures

8:00pm Short Film Showcase III

Back Home Tye Wilson Broken Shadow Entertainment

The Last Ride Sasan Shabrou Gladius Arts

8:30pm Best of the Festival Showcase

Bedtime for Timmy (Juror Pick) Thomas Nicol Unfocused Films

Broken Dolls (Best Short Film Non International) Kevin Sedall B.S.E.

Afghan (Juror Pick)

Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns (Juror Pick)

Run Granny Run (Juror Pick and Best Film in the Festival)

We are proud to be a sponsor of this fun, new, and exciting film festival, not just because of the event itself but because of the wonderful people behind it too. Cheers to the filmmakers, viewers, organizers, and everyone else involved with Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival, 2011.

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Karim Kanji is a man of many talents; including the host of the Social Media Show, and co-founder of ThirdOcean which is a social media, marketing, and community consulting startup.

Karim and his guest Karim Awad discussed companies to watch out for on the Social Media Show, and selected Spidvid as one of them. I have posted the clip where Spidvid is mentioned and explained quite well by Karim (Kanji). Enjoy, spread the word, and enjoy your weekend. Oh, and if you want to listen to the full 46 minute podcast, here’s the link to it.

Spidvid on Social Media Show by spidvid

And as Karim mentioned I’m now actively seeking out a tech co-founder (rock star developer/hacker) and angel investors, so if you are either or know people who fit one or the other description, then please get in touch and let’s have a chat.

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