FiveSprockets™ Unveils New Features, Announces Partnership with ProtectRite® : Virtual Production Studio Adds New Script Formats and Enables Direct Access to Intellectual Property Registration Web Site

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.

SAN DIEGO (Business Wire EON) November 12, 2008 -- "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.