METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUBMITTING AND REVIEWING AUDITIONS

• US 20120084398A1
• Filed: 10/04/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Akash Kava, Donald Kent Neary
• Original Assignee: Akash Kava, Donald Kent Neary
• Inventors: Neary, Donald Kent, Kava, Akash
• Granted Patent: US 9,129,260 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0605 Supply or demand aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0611 Request for offers or quotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

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.

Claims

1. A application providing a mechanism for talent to audition for a role, the application comprising:

program code adapted to receive roles for which the talent is eligible to apply;

program code adapted to allow the talent to take, select and save media elements requested for the role;

program code adapted to upload the saved media elements to a server.

2. The application of claim 1, further comprising program code adapted to maintain a talent profile on the server.

3. The application of claim 1, wherein the application is adapted to run on a mobile device.

4. The application of claim 1, wherein:

the media elements are selected from the group consisting of photographs, audio recordings and video recordings; and

the media elements can be recorded from an inbuilt or attached camera and microphone.

5. An application for managing the acquisition of talent for roles, the application comprising:

a module adapted to obtain an audition from talent and save the audition onto a server;

a module adapted to provide an agent the ability to review, edit and remove auditions of the talent from the server prior to submission to a casting director;

a module adapted to provide the ability for the casting director to display and select auditions from the server and flag selected auditions for particular roles.

6. The application of claim 5, wherein the module adapted to obtain an audition from talent comprises:

program code adapted to create and maintain a talent profile on the server;

program code adapted to receive roles for which the talent is eligible to apply;

program code adapted to allow the talent to take, select and save media elements requested for the role;

program code adapted to upload the saved media elements to the server.

7. The application of claim 6, wherein the module adapted to obtain an audition from talent is designed for running on a mobile device.

8. The application of claim 5, wherein the module adapted to provide the ability for the casting director to display and select auditions from the server is either program code run on a computer of the casting director or is a web-based application.

9. The application of claim 5, wherein the audition is linked to profiles of the talent for each role.

10. The application of claim 5, wherein each module is adapted to be web-based, allowing users to access the application from any computer with an internet connection.