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Group Credits, What Order?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorninehours
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When you have grouped cast what order do you enter them in the cast list
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I select option 2. Simply because that's how I read them: from column 1 to column 2.
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I agree with jykke.  I read top to bottom column 1 then column 2, so that is the way that I enter them. 

Obviously, there is nothing in the rules, which would make either correct (or incorrect).
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I select option 2. Simply because that's how I read them: from column 1 to column 2.


I agree & that's how I would do it. However, I don't think that (many) people would vote "No" on either option.
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I have always gone with option 2 when I have done ones like that in the past
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Personally i'd choose option 1. That's how i always add it.

Wouldn't vote No to the other though.

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I would use Option 1.  But first I would check the entire credits crawl for any alphabetized sections.  If there were any I would use that as an indication of the intended order.
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I choose option 1, because in longer credits you can't see the complete columns at once and the human eye tends to read from left to right (at least in languages based on the alphabet). But I wouldn't vote no on option 2.
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I look for alphabetical order first.  If it exists i will follow that.  Otherwise Option 2.
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Option 1 is more natural, IMO. If the list is long, I don't want to hit the backward button in order to be able to start reading the "2nd column". That would be clumsy.
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A related question, what do you do with two credits on the screen, one in the lower left corner and one in the upper right?
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I select option 2. Simply because that's how I read them: from column 1 to column 2.

Agreed, think abiout trying to read a really long list top to bottom, then repeat for the next column, you will not make it. The human mind reads left to right, in most cases , so that is the way I usually list them. But if someone lese has already done a top to bottom, I won't argue the point, nor will I accept it.

Note: There are ocassional exceptions to either method, from time to time depending on the filmmakers you will discover that they are actually listing the data in alpha order, either top to bottom or left to right, when that is true, I follow the alpha order.

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A related question, what do you do with two credits on the screen, one in the lower left corner and one in the upper right?

Is it a "standard" top to bottom crawl, if so then top, but remember there are instances where filmmakers use reverse crawls.

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Option 1 is more natural, IMO. If the list is long, I don't want to hit the backward button in order to be able to start reading the "2nd column". That would be clumsy.

lol, Pete. have you ever tried hitting the reverse button in a theater, I can never get mine to work.

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I treat it the same way I read, left to right and top to bottom, so option 1.
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I treat it the same way I read, left to right and top to bottom, so option 1.

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