Methods and apparatus for submitting and reviewing auditions

摘要

Auditions need no longer be held locally within the casting director's office. Talent registration forms, size cards, talent worksheets and the duplication of numerous DV tapes or DVDs are no longer necessary, thus resulting in the saving of time, money and energy. Auditions may be conducted collectively by talent agents or individually by talent who use their computer or mobile devices to film their individual audition and submit it via the internet using proprietary software from anywhere in the world. Auditions are saved digitally on a storage server and transmitted over the internet, saving on both duplicating and courier transfer costs. Audition corrections, if required, can be communicated to talent that have already submitted their auditions, and they can resubmit their corrections using the internet from wherever they are. Clients will have the ability to review and download individual video tracks, headshots, enlarged profile images, resumes, size cards and talent logs, as well as open and view the talent's multi-media profile.

主权项

1. A computer assisted auditioning system for enabling a plurality of casting directors to audition roles to talent, the auditioning system comprising:
a log in credential verifying access point operably connected to a computer network to: receive a plurality of talent requirements communicated by a director; transmit the plurality of talent requirements to a third party talent agent; receive talent submissions from the third party talent agent in response to the plurality of talent requirements communicated by the director; transmit the submissions to the director; and store the plurality of talent requirements and submissions in a computer readable storage medium, wherein said log in credential verifying access point further comprises: a director module that enables a casting director to create an editable breakdown of an audition, wherein the breakdown comprises of a plurality of role requirements; a talent agent module to edit said talent submissions received by the third party talent agent from talent in response to the plurality of talent requirements communicated by the director prior to submitting said submissions to the director, wherein the talent agent module is operable to allocate audition breakdown or roles to specific talent; and a talent module to allow individual talent to access the system and view available auditions; wherein said talent module allows individual talent to create and upload said talent submissions to the system in response to the plurality of talent requirements communicated by the director.