The traditional short filmmaker is focused on taking their time to carefully plan out every aspect of their production, team, and work flow. From start to finish this type of film project takes many months to complete, which to me is risky because many short films don’t do that great. It’s a numbers game, and so a filmmaker that releases 2 or 3 short films per year has less chances of success than a filmmaker who aims to release 2x or even 4x+ that number.

It can be argued that the filmmaker who produces 2 or 3 per year perhaps has higher quality content, but what I’m seeing more and more are these lean and fast moving video creators and teams cranking out far more content than the traditional filmmaker is accustomed to, and large audiences totally buying in. Perhaps there’s less “polish” on every short film but for the most part it’s a numbers game because nobody knows what will stick with an audience, and what will fail miserably.

The most popular YouTube channels are the ones where the creator is cranking out 1, 2, or more videos every week, and so it seems to me that the future of the modern filmmaker is based upon consistently and regularly releasing entertaining videos that have production value which tell interesting stories.

What do you think about the ever-evolving world of filmmaking? Do you believe in investing more hours per film and releasing less often, or do you think it’s a better approach to move fast and get more content out there to increase the number of chances for success?

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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.

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Travis Gordon is a video creator who manufactured the brilliant fantasy action web series Spellfury which has now amassed over 3 million views throughout its incredible existence! In addition to being a web series creator, he also teaches others on how to promote their videos to receive more views, comments, likes, subscribers, and love.

Spidvid has sponsored his latest video “How To Promote Your Videos” and it’s a worthwhile watch to learn how Travis promotes his video content like a rock star, and how you can too!

If you create videos that may interest us to sponsor, please contact us and let us know how we can mutually benefit together.

Bonus: Below is the trailer for Spellfury, enjoy!

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My friend Adam works in PR and has never created a video, or even been part of a production before in his life. But as soon as I told him what myself and film community are doing with Spidvid, he instantly wanted to be part of a team that produced an entertaining video.

I’m putting together my team for Blog Hacker and because he looks professional, is confident, and intelligent I thought he would be a good actor for the entrepreneur role in my short film. I proposed this role to him and he put on a HUGE SMILE because it’s the perfect way for him to break into the world of video. His girlfriend is beautiful and talented so I asked Adam if she would like to play the entrepreneur’s girlfriend, and he all but guaranteed her collaborative participation. As a bonus, he has a high quality 1080p HD camera that he’s never used before, so guess how his camera is going to break into the world of video! Yep you guessed it!

I believe that Spidvid will continue to attract individuals from all walks of life, because people want to be part of interesting new opportunities, and what better than a fun video project to launch into. It can be intimidating jumping into something new, which is why our community and platform make an effective solution to that problem for the world of video.

The premise of this post goes back to our vision for Spidvid, which is open and collaborative video production.

If you have something to share, please do so by posting a comment below.

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Are you a passionate man or woman on a mission when creating new videos? Perhaps you try to do everything by yourself, work on just one project at a time, and ultimately end up with sub-par results over a long period of time.

We all want to be multi-talented at what we do, but wearing many different hats on a project can be exhausting and you can spread your skills too thin. For every successful film project, there is a talented team behind it, period.

So you have a couple choices: a) work on one project at a time and try to do everything yourself, or b) reach out to outside talent, connect and collaborate with the individuals you need to add skill to your project, and free up more of your time to do multiple projects at a time.

For example: Jessie is an aspiring filmmaker who loves writing and shooting creative new videos, but hates editing them, dislikes using his voice for the voice over, and tries to score each of his videos but they always end up sounding rather boring to viewers. Jessie can keep pressing on with this process and settle for mediocre videos, or he can focus exclusively on writing and shooting videos and collaborate with other like-minded talent to fill in his skill gaps. This gives Jessie the time to do many projects simultaneously, allows him to complete more projects faster, and hedges his bet so he doesn’t invest a ton of time into projects that end up getting little or no success. He gives up some control and perhaps pieces of the content ownership, but gets many more opportunities at success with each new video him and his team release to the world.

Our Spidvid community is full of talented individuals eagerly waiting for new and exciting projects to be part of. If you have projects you want to launch but either don’t have the time or talent to accomplish that, then get a Spidvid account, and post a project. We will help you spread the word to the specific talent you need, and get your project heading in the right direction.

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