paul
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7/17/2007 11:02 AM
posted awhile ago
What is the Spout Mavens group?
Spout frequently receives DVD screeners for upcoming or newly released movies. We send those screeners to members who display particular insight and thoughtfulness in their writing. These are our Spout Mavens and this group is where they review and discuss the movies we send them.
Want to be a Spout Maven? Here is what you have to do...
Request membership to this group. We will review what you have written here at spout.com and make a decision. (We're pretty nice, if you don't make the cut the first time, we'll make suggestions on what to improve upon so you can try again.) We are looking for prolific movie watchers writing quality reviews and discussion posts within Spout. You need to have content in your Spout Profile including at least 5 editorial quality reviews already posted to your Spout Filmblog. Also, you need to reside either in the US or Canada since we can only ship to the Region 1 code (US and Canada).
If you are accepted, we will periodically send you DVDs to screen. You are expected to write a review of the movie in your Spout Filmblog within one month of receiving the screener. The reviews should adhere to basic movie review guidelines (600-1000 words in length, cite actor and director names, be grammatically correct) and have movie titles linked to the corresponding movie page at spout.com. The DVDs are yours to keep as our thanks for making quality contributions to Spout.
Please, give joining a shot and spend some time perusing our discussions.
Thanks,
Paul
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paul
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11/15/2007 2:23 PM
posted awhile ago
Re:What is the Spout Mavens group?
If you are accepted to the Spout Mavens... Here’s how it works:
- To receive a screener, write an email the Mavens email account with the name of the review you have completed in the subject (unless you are requesting your first screener), and any films you would like to request in the body. Check the lists in the group for films that are available.
- Once you have received your screener, you will have up to a month to write a review. If you are quick at writing your review you can request a new screener sooner, this way if you want to see lots of movies you can, and if you want to take your time, you can. Don’t worry, we will remind you if you go over, but we will only give you a week after the reminder to write it. If you still haven’t written it, you’ll get the boot. It’s a hard-knock life.
- The reviews should adhere to basic movie review guidelines (600-1000 words in length, cite actor and director names, be grammatically correct) and have movie titles linked to the corresponding movie page at spout.com. The DVDs are yours to keep as our thanks for making quality contributions to Spout.
- Reviews should be posted in your filmblog and a link to your review should be posted in the discussion forum that matches the title of the film in the Spout Mavens group.
Note:
- It is up to you to inform us of any changes to your contact information or any personal catastrophes/vacations that would interfere with completing your review. We are pretty flexible; so don’t hesitate to let us know if you need some slack.
- It is also up to you to let us know when you need a new review; we are relying on this system to inform us of when to do shipping. If you don’t communicate we can’t send you anything.
- If you are inactive as a Maven for more than a month, we will attempt to contact you, but if we don’t hear back from you after a week, you will be dismissed from the group.
- Suspected piracy of the movie (duplication of any kind) will result in dismissal from the group, and your information will be given to the distribution company for that movie should they choose to take action.
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