FiveSprockets™ Unveils New Features, Announces Partnership with ProtectRite® : Virtual Production Studio Adds New Script Format

) November 12, 2008 --
A pioneering force in digital-media production, FiveSprockets™
today unveiled several enhancements to its virtual production studio,
including a new suite of script formats, improved profile features and
direct access for users to ProtectRite®,
an online service for time sealed intellectual-property registration.

The latest enhancements to FiveSprockets help us meet the needs of a wider group of media creators

These are the first in a series of upgrades planned to enable producers of all skill levels, from professional and aspiring filmmakers to video enthusiasts to advertising agencies, to collaborate with others to develop, produce, and promote their work.

We chose to partner with ProtectRite because they are the pioneer of online intellectual-property registration. Their established history and industry-leading vaulting process was a perfect for FiveSprockets

“The latest enhancements to FiveSprockets
help us meet the needs of a wider group of media creators,”
said Randy Ullrich, founder, president and CEO of FiveSprockets.
“These are the first in a series of upgrades
planned to enable producers of all skill levels, from professional and
aspiring filmmakers to video enthusiasts to advertising agencies, to
collaborate with others to develop, produce, and promote their work.”

The new script formats include television sitcom/drama, stage play,
radio play and comic book. Profile enhancements include rich project
pages where users can showcase their work. The company’s
partnership with ProtectRite
enables FiveSprockets
users to access the ProtectRite
service directly from vScripter, FiveSprockets
online story development and scriptwriting software.

“We chose to partner with ProtectRite
because they are the pioneer of online intellectual-property
registration. Their established history and industry-leading vaulting
process was a perfect for FiveSprockets,”
said Ullrich.

FiveSprockets,
which launched in September, is an online collaboration platform
offering essential resources and on-demand software to enable its users
to make better media, more efficiently and profitably, from any
location. The site serves as a virtual one-stop shop, providing
innovative tools to support the five phases, or “sprockets,”
of media production: (1) story development and scriptwriting, (2)
pre-production, (3) production, (4) post-production, and (5) marketing
and distribution.

Always evolving with new features, the current platform includes:

  • vScripter – collaborative story development
    and scriptwriting software
  • vProductionOffice – collaborative
    production-management software
  • Job Boards – helping producers find the
    perfect cast and crew
  • Social/Professional Networking – rich user
    profiles, project showcasing, and the ability to connect with friends
    and colleagues
  • Resources – a host of dynamic
    conversational and educational content and resources across all five
    phases of production

FiveSprockets offers functionality for a variety of media projects,
including feature films, documentaries, television serials, advertising,
Webisodes, Mobisodes, comics and more. For more information, please
visit www.FiveSprockets.com
or send an email to info@fivesprockets.com.

About ProtectRite

Founded in 1994, ProtectRite provides confidential, time sealed
registration of original works, intellectual property and records. As a
disinterested third party, ProtectRite registration establishes the
completion date of your registered materials and offers the security of
long-term storage in the event your original is lost or destroyed. By
creating a digital timestamp, ProtectRite registration assists in
establishing a proof of completion date, and provides a documented
record of your claim to authorship, ownership, creation. For more
information, please visit www.ProtectRite.com.

About FiveSprockets

Launched in 2008, FiveSprockets is “your
virtual production studio,” offering
filmmakers and digital-media producers the tools they need to make
better media, more efficiently and profitably, anywhere they are. By
utilizing the collaborative nature of today’s
Internet and social media, FiveSprockets delivers critical resources and
on-demand software to support the five phases of media production: (1)
story development, (2) pre-production, (3) production, (4)
post-production, and (5) marketing and distribution. Founded by a
20-year software and Web industry veteran, Randy Ullrich, FiveSprockets
takes a holistic approach to the process of media production, offering a
platform specifically designed for the needs of its community. Please
visit www.FiveSprockets.com
for more information.

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