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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My goal is to share a list post once a week here since so many video creators, producers, writers, and other talent enjoy the insights, knowledge, and the value they provide to do something better or more efficiently.

Tim Siglin from OnlineVideo.net attended Streaming Media Europe and compiled a list of takeaways for excelling using social media for increasing online video visibility, attention, and engagement. A “Friend Engine” means any social media tool that empowers viewers to share video content with their social networks.

Below is a summary of my favorite tips from Tim.

1. Facebook – Make sure your videos play directly in Facebook. Some of their key video sharing partners include YouTube and Vimeo.

2. Diverse social networking – Embrace a few different social networks to reach viewers such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, and wherever your niche audience socializes online. Don’t just treat each audience the same though, tailor your content and engagement strategy to each one individually.

3. Distribute everywhere – Get your videos uploaded to as many sites as you can, and see how each compare in terms of views, social interaction (tweets and likes), and engagement (comments and ratings). Get your entertaining videos up to UnleashVideo by doing past and future projects on Spidvid. A Spidvid team project can be completed and video uploaded in less than 20 minutes. If you want to learn more please contact us so we can give you all the juicy benefits for doing so.

4. Social media contacts – Build up your fans, followers, and subscribers and engage with viewers one on one to help build up your view count, video shares, and engagement. Good social capital takes a long time to earn, but it’s well worth the time investment and dedication commitment.

5. Video optimization –  Be sure to use good metadata! Your title is critically important, try to get your audience to think to themselves “WTF” so they will click on it out of pure curiosity to see the video. An interesting picture for your video thumbnail is integral too, choose whatever one you feel will attract the most views. If you are an number optimization nerd you may want to experiment and try different thumbnail images to see what works best.

6. Video transcription – If you can take the key dialog from your videos and create text to get the search engines to pay attention, then go for it. A flash video player on a page by itself has no SEO value.

Get four more tips from Tim right here, and use them to your advantage. You spend lots of time creating entertaining videos, so make sure to dedicate at least the same amount of time (or more) promoting and marketing them. If you want help in this challenging area, we can help you get more love, views, and attention for your videos!

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A big part of the online fabric is now sharing. We have video sharing, photo sharing, blog article sharing, relatively new location sharing, sharing contacts, and pretty much everything else online can be shared with ease.

What I want to briefly outline in this post is video and film content ownership sharing.

We are typically used to seeing studios, producers, creators, or filmmakers own 100% of all content by paying their employees and/or contractors for their services and talent offered. Spidvid includes many interesting elements, and one of the bigger ones is the ability for members of production projects to share ownership with each other. The project leader assigns a percentage for each team member, ranging from 0% to 100%, in increments of 5%. So a team example breakdown could be: producer 30%, creator 20%, director 10%, editor 10%, actor #1 10%, actor #2 10%, actor #3 5%,  and actor #4 5%.

We may one day put a payment system in place so that team members can be both paid and offered a content ownership stake, but for now that can be manually done outside of our platform if money needs to be exchanged.

If you believe in video and film ownership sharing then get a Spidvid account, and enjoy the ability to partner with your team members.

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Now that our site is starting to pick up some traction, and is getting an increasing amount of attention from individuals in the video and film space, I thought today would be a good time to link to a January article which outlines Spidvid’s value really well. Our following was much smaller then, and I’ve learned that many readers only check out recent and new blog content so that’s my main reason for doing this.

If you haven’t read it already you should quickly check out How to Attract Video Production Talent for Free. Learn how to share video and film content ownership with your team members because there are many excellent advantages and benefits for taking this strategic approach. I believe this could be the next significant “new media” production model for video and film content. Wholly believing in this incredible vision is what motivates me to jump out of bed each and every day.

Are you ready to start sharing video and/or film content ownership with your team members? If you are then grab yourself a Spidvid account and be sure to create a quality profile so other like-minded individuals are inspired to connect to you.

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