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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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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A lot of video creators contact us and say that they want to start using Spidvid, but aren’t actively working on a new project at the time. So what we tell them is to run their team’s past production projects through our system to provide them with team distribution for the videos, and so that we can partner with them on the promotional side to attract more views, attention, and love for their content. Spidvid wasn’t initially designed and developed for past projects, but it’s a good way to start using our platform, and understand how it can be leveraged for future projects. Plus a Spidvid project can be completed in as little as 4 minutes if all team members work together in real-time.

If you haven’t seen the demo video already for using Spidvid, we have embedded a female and male version below so you can complete a Spidvid project quickly and easily. And if you have any trouble or issues at all, just contact us and we would be happy to help you out via email, Twitter, or with a phone conversation.

And if you have video entertainment that tells a good story, is entertaining, has good production value, and you as a video creator are low on time to complete Spidvid projects, we will give you the Spidvid VIP treatment and do your team’s projects for you as requested. If you want to be a Spidvid VIP video creator or producer, then be sure to tell us why your team and content deserve the honor.

Female version – Spidvid Screencast Demo - How to complete a Spidvid project, and upload a video

Below is the male voice over version

And we’re excited to mention that the Spidvid community’s videos have almost reached 100,000 views (97,654 to be exact), the vast majority of them coming in the last couple months. Exciting times are ahead for the web’s open and collaborative video production ecosystem.

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If you’re in the video production industry perhaps you have wondered, ”how can my team create higher quality content out of the limited amount of time we have for each project?”. I have put together a compact list of three hints for how to successfully complete your projects in 24 hours or less. These tid bits of wisdom include: the importance of connecting with quality people to form a quality team, how to create a video fast, and how to allocate your time to maximize your end results.

Step 1 – Put together your team

Your team members should be reliable people that you trust, know where their specific talents lie, and can rely on them to do a great job. Make sure you know where your team members are located and what time zone they’re in, don’t waste too much time on conference calls or group Skype discussions, and be sure that everyone is very clear on what they are expected to contribute to the project. And treat every member of your team like they are absolutely integral to the success of the created video, people tend to exert more effort when they’re appreciated.

Step 2 – Create the video

The next and second most important part of the project is the process of planning out, shooting, and editing the video. Some people think that between these three elements you should allocate an equal 1/3 of the project’s time to each, but the fact is you will burn most of your time shooting the video and post-producing after. Have a good story written but be flexible to adjust the script and dialog according to the actors and director on the set, because things will always change on shoot day. Spend the most time on making the key seconds and moments in the video as remarkable as possible, and entertain the viewers early on to keep them sticking around for more. Over 50% of video viewers leave in the first 10 seconds, so make your impact on them quickly.

Step 3 – Manage your time wisely

24 hours goes by pretty fast, especially if some of them are spent sleeping. You have to keep tracking your team’s progress every hour or so, but don’t over obsess in this area or time will be wasted on plan management vs actually creating the video. Be relentless during pre-production to be sure that everything is ready to go from the moment you start filming, actors know their lines inside and out, equipment is functional, the location or locations are setup, and the project workflow is easy for everyone to follow. There are lots of variables when it comes to time management, and there will always be things that pop up which you didn’t initially plan for, so set aside at least 10% of total project time for the unexpected extras. In post production every team member should get time to review the project and voice their own opinions to increase the content’s quality, so be sure to set aside a few minutes to create a clear path to a successful project conclusion.

You can do it

There are many other things you can do to create quality video entertainment fast, but hopefully these tips will get you headed in the right direction when working on a tight deadline. If you already have a production project on the go you can manage it via Spidvid’s collaborative production platform. Or if you need to build a new team then grab a free account and invite your members to connect with you in our social network, or find new talented individuals to collaborate with in our community.

Have another tip to add for video production under extreme time constraints? Share one below with a comment.

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Is your perspective for creating videos the same strategy as it was last month, last year, or even last decade? If your answer to this question is a resounding yes then perhaps it’s time to start thinking about how you can improve your video production and content quality.

If you want to succeed in today’s video production world, you have to think about how you can partner with members on your team, rather than just getting paid or paying out for talent. Who will do a better job, an individual who you just pay money to, or an individual who takes less money (or even nothing at all) but in exchange gets a piece of ownership in the video or film? I think the answer should be pretty obvious.

I have recently started to reach out to creators who film quality video entertainment to let them know how connecting with others in our community can benefit their future projects, as well as their past projects begging for more attention. At first these creators think that our platform is yet another distribution channel for their content, but then realize it’s as much about building personal reputation as it is about getting more people to view their work.

What’s happening here I believe, is that there is both excitement and panic amongst creators, filmmakers, producers, and actors where they are just trying to keep up with the rapidly evolving production space. Video production as usual is no longer with all the social tools and technologies that promise to disrupt both the actual process, and the business model as well.

I’m sure that lots of people are happy with collecting their normal (and safe) paycheck for their services and time offered, but for the entrepreneurial individuals who want more than just money out of the content they help to create, that’s the type of person who will really respect what we’re trying to accomplish with Spidvid.

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