for media & entertainment film industry founded san diego ca u.s. 2007 2007 headquarters san diego ca u.s. products screenwriting software ; filmmaking and video production software and resources website www.fivesprockets.com fivesprockets was a web based software company based in san diego california united states focused on developing resources social networking and web based collaborative software for scriptwriting filmmaking and digital video production . the name fivesprockets came from the five phases or sprockets of media production 1 story development & scriptwriting ; 2 pre production ; 3 production ; 4 post production ; and 5 marketing & distribution . founded in 2007 by ceo randy ullrich fivesprockets launched its beta release in september 2008 with an initial focus on social networking educational content and web based software for screenwriting and production management . fivesprockets your virtual production studio . contents 1 ideas module 2 vscripter 3 vproductionoffice 4 job board 5 social networking & community 6 closure 7 see also 8 references 9 external links ideas module edit fivesprockets included an ideas module where creators could store their raw ideas across several different idea types such as story or character . vscripter web based story development and scriptwriting software . vscripter edit vscripter was fivesprockets web based story development and scriptwriting software . vscripter took a story development perspective on the process and allows the writer s to collect metadata about each story and manage their stories . vscripter supported a variety of different media project formats including screenplay tv sitcom tv drama stage play audio radio play and comic book . editor vscripter s scriptwriting editor included features typical of scriptwriting software such as a proper formatting as recommended by ampas 1 nicholl fellowship in screenwriting ; b writing accelerators such as intelligent tab and enter key processing ; and c character and location memory for auto completion typing . story metadata vscripter stored metadata about the story including log line tagline treatment and story notes . collaboration the script s originator could selectively choose to share a script in read only or write access mode to any of the originator s contacts . import export scripts written in other applications could be imported into vscripter via the rtf standard which typically preserved most but not necessarily all of the original script s formatting . additionally vscripter could export to rtf pdf and html . script registration through a partnership with protectrite the creator and pioneer of online intellectual property registration writers could access the protectrite service directly from within vscripter to register and protect their work . vproductionoffice web based production management software . vproductionoffice edit vproductionoffice was fivesprockets web based production management software . script breakdown when the user greenlights a production vproductionoffice walked the user through a simple wizard that among other things created a script breakdown . this includes separating the various scenes listing the characters needed in each scene and marking the 1 8 s of each scene . the scenes could then be scheduled for their shooting date . storyboarding the storyboard feature allowed the user to create storyboards for each scene in the breakdown and watch the storyboard in an animation viewer . casting and crewing the user could cast and crew the production from their various connections within fivesprockets . job board edit fivesprockets included a job board so that its users could seek out new collaborators across a variety of media production roles from above the line positions such as actor director and producer to below the line roles such as line producer script supervisor and key grip . rich entertainment focused user profiles . social networking & community edit fivesprockets included social networking features such as user profiles project showcasing contact building internal messaging and discussion boards . fivesprockets also included educational content and resources where users could share their knowledge and learn from others across content types like how to videos instructional guides discussion forums and glossary elements . closure edit on the 2nd of november 2012 the site shut down . anyone attempting to access the site is met with the following message after four years as a web service fivesprockets.com shut down on friday 2 november 2012 at 9pm pacific standard time in the usa midnight eastern standard time . thank you to all of our supporters in your various capacities over the last several years . there are plenty of other good services out there so we think you can find a home . if nothing else try good old google docs . keep writing and keep creating . and never be discouraged because in the wise words of william goldman nobody knows anything . except maybe you . sincerely randy founder fivesprockets see also edit web 2.0 web application social network service filmmaking screenplay scriptwriting screenwriting list of screenwriting software references edit beal greg . a few notes on formatting . ampas . archived from the original on 2008 03 02 . retrieved 2008 03 20 . external links edit fivesprockets official site protectrite official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fivesprockets & oldid 743674669 categories web applicationssocial networking servicesscreenwriting softwarecompanies based in san diegointernet companies of the united statesfilm production softwareprivately held companies based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 17 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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