Help support aspiring filmmakers at Rootclip.com this weekend

You might not have noticed that my project Rootclip.com is hosting two contest voting periods this week. We encourage you to vote and comment on both to support aspiring filmmakers.

Rootclip has some incredible, fantastic, and awe-inspiring submissions in the final round of their film Chance Encounter. These films are all amazing in their own way, and we need everybody to help us pick the best one. Filmmakers in this competition are competing for the $2000 Grand Prize and ultimate bragging rights!

Click here to see the videos and vote for Chance Encounter's final winner!

Also, Rootclip has gone to colllege and is hosting the University of Tennessee Knoxville 2008 Fall Film Project. These future filmmakers need you to weigh in with your opinion and votes. Please give them support and go check out their excellent films.

Click here to see the videos and vote for the UTK 2008 Fall Film Project's Chapter 2 Winner!

If you are feeling left out by all this action, and now have the urge to get in on the filmmaking action, we have your fix. Rootclip.com's newest competition, Doctor Frank is currently underway and taking submissions. The latest contest revolves around a mad scientis named Doctor Frank, his assistant Igor Johnson, and a rather ordinary switch that opens up endless possibilities.

Click here on more details regarding the new Rootclip.com contest - Doctor Frank!

Thanks everybody for your support of Rootclip.com, and good luck to everybody competing this weekend!

Rootclip.com was created to give filmmakers, writers, actors and anybody who just likes to watch movies the ability to collaborate on a video project. It's a new approach to collaborative filmmaking. Rootclip team members create a short video clip or "Rootclip" to start the story. You watch the video, then shoot your own rendition of what should happen next in less than 2 minutes. Once you've created your video, upload it to Rootclip.com during the submission period and compete for votes against the videos from other users.

Rootclip.com launches Doctor Frank series, check it out

Rootclip.com announced the launch of the first in the Doctor Frank film contest series today. The new storyline revolves around a mad scientist, an unknown experiment, and an awe-inspiring switch (or not). This story has the most creativity potential so far of all of the Rootclip.com contests.

Knoxville based Rootclip.com was created to give filmmakers, writers, actors and anybody who just likes to watch movies the ability to collaborate on a video project. Our goal is to be the catalyst that gets people thinking and being creative with video in such a way that it infects the masses and brings a new life to the art of filmmaking.

Rootclip creates a short video clip or "Rootclip" to start the story. Filmmakers watch our video, then shoot their own rendition of what should happen next in less than 2 minutes. Once they've created your video, upload it to Rootclip.com during the submission period and compete for votes against the videos from other users. Gain the highest percentage of user and judge votes during the voting period and your video becomes the next chapter in the story.

A new story, and new prizes too:

Grand Prize is a $2,000.00 VISA Gift Card and a Porta-Brace SS-2 Side Sling Pack, Retail Value $199.

Chapter winners 2-5 will recieve a $250 VISA Gift Card, a RichardSolo.com Backup Battery for iPhone / iPod, Retail Value $49.95, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Retail Value $30, and The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap by Stu Maschwitz, Retail Value of $44.99. (ARV: $374.94).

To enter, submit your videos at Rootclip.com here.

Check out my video entry in the Rootclip.com commercial competition

I've created my first edited video ever - if you don't count the bachelor party invite I created years ago.

This one is for the Rootclip Commercial Contest.

Even though it's just a mashup of some of the best cilps, I'd still love to hear what you think. The soundtrack is just some loops I put together in Garage Band.

Think you can do better? Enter the Rootclip Commercial Contest and win an iPhone.

Rootclip.com announces the Chapter 4 winner

JakusB has won Chapter 4 of Chance Encounter with their entry Unwelcomed Help. Congratulations and good work JakusB!

Again, this round had some intense competition with Tony's entry Back in Black: Out of Time, bryceanderic's entry True Colors, and a comedic sping with Dynomar's submission Homerun.

Great work by everybody this round! Thanks for your patience while we tallied the last judge votes coming in over the holiday weekend.

Just a reminder that JakusB, FungusRidden and joshutk are ineligible to compete until the final chapter, so we need your submissions next round!

JakusB you've won a $250 VISA Gift Card, a really cool Balance Beam from Trig Industries, Retail Value $249.50, a "Video for the Web" training DVD by VASST, Retail Value $80, and The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap by Stu Maschwitz, Retail Value of $44.99.

Also, JakusB is now eligible to compete in the final chapter for the $2,000.00 Cash Grand Prize.

Drunken exploding Santa musical wins at Rootclip.com

FungusRidden has clinched Chapter 3 of Chance Encounter with their hilarious musical extravaganza Hold on, April! featuring a drunken Santa, explosions, and an ode to a damaged spleen. Has the drunken Santa become Rootclip's meme?

Competition was fierce this round, with jaytaylorthe1's entry Citrus with Attitude helping push boundries, and newcomer ChiriSan's excellent submission AFTERSHOCK. Check out Chirisan's production website at http://www.karmacauseproductions.com/ to learn more about their efforts. Great work by everybody this round!

Just a reminder that FungusRidden and joshutk are ineligible to compete until the final chapter, so we need your submissions next round!

So congratulations FungusRidden! For winning this chapter you've won a $250 VISA Gift Card, a really cool Balance Beam from Trig Industries, Retail Value $249.50, a "Video for the Web" training DVD by VASST, Retail Value $80, and The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap by Stu Maschwitz, Retail Value of $44.99.

Also, FungusRidden is now eligible to compete in the final chapter for the $2,000.00 Cash Grand Prize.

Onward to Chapter 4!

Help Rootclip get on DiggNation!

We have a goal to get our project Rootclip.com on DiggNation and we need your help to do it. If you have a digg.com account, please follow the link below and "Digg" that link. If you don't have an account, make one, then Digg it!

http://digg.com/movies/Rootclip_Rocks_Encourage_Creativity

If you're not familiar with it, DiggNation is a weekly web show starring Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. They run down the list of some popular things on digg.com during their show. Our goal is to get the above Digg story on their show.

How can you help?

1. Send an email out to all of your friends with this link, asking them to Digg it.
2. Use your Facebook account to post a link to it, or mention it in some other way.
3. Send the link out on your Twitter, Tumblr, or IM.
4. Put it on your own blog, telling people to Digg it.
5. Get creative and use any other networking tool you have to get the word out.

We'll need a pantload of people to Digg it, so pass it on and help us out. Thanks everyone!!

Vote on Rootclip Chapter 3 of Chance Encounter

Voting for the next chapter in the film Chance Encounter has begun at Rootclip.com. Come over and put in your vote to help us choose the best filmmaker.

This round we've got filmmakers putting in Lost style flashbacks, Tarantino style mobster flicks, and even a musical number.

Vote this weekend at http://www.rootclip.com

Rootclip.com at the Traverse City Film Festival

Check out some images from our arrival at the Traverse City Film Festival to present our Rootclip.com film Good Luck.