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First Prize for Chapters 2-5

1. Random Bag of Crap from Woot

You heard right. Our friends over at Woot have agreed to give a Random Bag of Crap to each of our chapter winners. Don't know what this is? Well, it's high time you crawled out of your cave and got a clue.

In short, a Random Bag of Crap is just what one would expect it to be. Not literal "crap" mind you, but random items that the fine folks at Woot found around their warehouse and stuffed into a bag. You'll have to win a chapter before you can find out what's inside. It's such a secret that even WE don't know what's inside!

2. Copy of Final Cut Pro 6 For Digital Video Editors Only by Lonzell Watson, Retail Value $39.99

As part of his work educating professionals around the world about Final Cut Pro, Writer and Director Lonzell Watson has developed invaluable training materials that are a culmination of the experiences of thousands of working professionals in the field. Throughout this book, he shares this knowledge with you, along with related tips and tricks.

Final Cut Pro 6 For Digital Video Editors Only offers you a wealth of real world solutions for working with Final Cut Pro, along with other essential applications such as Apple Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Compressor 3, LiveType 2, and Photoshop CS3 Extended. Learn to edit faster by working more efficiently as you perform some of the most popular effects used in the commercial production industry today, such as the Pleasantville Effect, Ken Burns Technique, the Filmstrip Effect and much more.

3. ACTORSandCREW Subscription

Each chapter winner will also receive a lifetime subscription to ACTORSandCREW. A new online employment and networking service, ACTORSandCREW, was created for entertainment industry folks of nearly every stripe, world wide.

The service allows you to build a rich media enabled profile, featuring your HD video reels, VO reels, screenplays, resumes, and headshots, that you then can submit to job postings and casting notices with one click. It enables to you network with film, theater and television professionals in 80 countries and throughout the United States.

4. Backstage pass to Laura Roeder's Twitter Seminar

This in-depth course will feature four modules in four weeks. Each week builds upon the previous to leave you a twitter expert at the end of one month.

I'm going to open up my brain (and my twitter account!) to you so that you are so confident in twitter that you can teach it to others. In this course I will cover the following:

Session 1: Beyond The Basics of the Tweet

• How often you should be changing your twitter photo
• The truth on whether custom twitter backgrounds pay off
• The final answer on if you should follow everyone who follows you (this is not the same for everyone, I'll tell you exactly how to know which is right for you)
• The difference between sending someone an @ message and a direct message and when exactly should you use each
• The common mistake almost everyone makes with the link in their twitter profile

Session 2: Maximizing Twitter Time

• The free tools that I personally use to save hours and hours of time on twitter
• A straight up answer of exactly how much time you need to spend on twitter every week to see results
• How to easily and instantly update all of your social media sites at once
• How to make your twitter account and website to "talk" to each other so that they're promoting and sending traffic to each other 24/7 and working for YOU

Session 3: Twit-etiquette and Twitter Culture

• The commonly sent message that newbies don't know is a HUGE twitter no-no
• What topics are OK on twitter and which ones are taboo
• How to introduce yourself to new people on twitter to make an instant connection
• How to increase your follower list WITHOUT any "spammy" methods
• My #1 strategy for getting hundreds of new followers at once
• How to form authentic connections with twitter VIPs
• The real reasons people unfollow

Session 4: Selling & Promotion on Twitter

• The popular twitter monetization method that is guaranteed to backfire in the end (stay AWAY from this one)
• The five traits of a promotion that will make you LOSE followers
• How to woo potential clients without ever being sales-y or pushy
• How to get others to retweet your sales messages and have them spread virally like wildfire!
• My personal strategy for under-the-radar selling on twitter
• The common mistake that ensures that your followers will NEVER become buyers (and what to do instead)

5. Rootclip t-shirt

These slick t-shirts are made of 100% cotton and will tell the world that you've helped to make collaborative moviemaking history!

Previous winners and wearers of this shirt have spoke of its supernatural powers, but I guess you'll have to take first place to really find out first hand. Sorry, "model" *cough* CHUMP does not come with the shirt!

Grand Prize for Chapter 6 Winner

1. Pure Digital RF260W White Ultra 60 Camcorder provided by Woot.com

Woot.com is also providing this handy Flip camera so you can take videos easily on the go. The 'Flip Camera' offers easy and fun video recording at your fingertips.

The LCD screen is 1.5" (diagonal) and the 2GB of internal memory provide roughly 60 minutes of shooting. Easily plug the Flip into your computer with the handy attached USB port.

2. Marble City 10 Hour Film Festival - Screening

The completed Short Film titled "Hole and Corner" will be exclusively screened at the 2009 Marble City 10 Hour Film Festival in Knoxville, TN on June 6, 2009. The folks at the MCFF explain it like this:

This premier annual film event is a demanding contest that pits filmmaking teams against one another as they struggle to produce, complete, and screen a short film in only 10 hours' time! It's a hectic and fun way to showcase your killer production instincts and cinematic kung fu...and win some cash to fund future projects.

Click here to find out more about the Marble City 10 Hour Film Festival.

3. Autographed copy of YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts by Alan Lastufka and Michael W. Dean, Retail Value $29.99

Alan Lastufka, one of our judges, has teamed up with Michael W. Dean to create this fantastic guide that will show you how to make quality video, and how to optimize, encode, upload and promote it.

In this book, these experts will take you from the basics of gear to making a name for yourself on YouTube by focusing on networking and interaction. Alan's also been nice enough to autograph this copy!

Here's an excerpt from the actual books description in case you'd like to know more:

If you want to make a splash on YouTube with your videos, this book shows you what it takes. It's written by two YouTube veterans who know how to make quality video art, and have the subscribers and millions of views to prove it. They'll take you through the basics, and will teach you how to write, shoot, edit, optimize, upload, and promote your work.