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Registered: April 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 146 |
| Posted: | | | | so i was watching my usual diet of cheesy horror movies when i came across the following issue with a screen credit. the film in question was Hack!in the credits at the start of the film, Roger Chingirian receives a credit as DoP, however in the end credits he receives a credit of Cinematographer. so how should i credit him? and just to confuse things i checked how the US r1 release dealt with this issue, in that profile he is credited twice - once for each role. edit: and for another issue, the production designer is credited differently in the credits as well, start credits - john hartman end credits - john o. hartman | | | Last edited: by zwoti |
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Registered: April 3, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,998 |
| Posted: | | | | Would the end credits take precedence over the opening credits? |
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Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,506 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting ninehours: Quote: Would the end credits take precedence over the opening credits? Although that part of the rules only mentions the cast, I would say that the same should be applied to crew as well. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 13,202 |
| Posted: | | | | The rules do not give priority to either opening or closing credits...and rightly so. Sometimes a crew member can be credited with two different jobs. The more important one at the beginning, and a less important one in the end. If we gave either one priority, we could not record them both.
While, it is rare that a person is credited with two different titles for the same job, it would be interesting to record this fact, so I would credit them both. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. - Citizen G'Kar | | | Last edited: by TheMadMartian |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,946 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,759 |
| Posted: | | | | Entering him twice for the what is the same role with a different name variant would be wrong. I would prefer director of photography but would not vote against cinematographer. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 20,111 |
| Posted: | | | | I would enter them as I see them in the credits, mistakes and all...just as we do with obvious Overview errors.
A person with both a DOP and Cinematographer credit could be a mistake, or was simply entered that way on purpose originally. But how would we know one way or the other really?
The same person credited twice as Production Designer is almost surely an error, but I agree with Unicus...it's worth recording the fact. | | | Corey |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 1,536 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting zwoti: Quote: and for another issue, the production designer is credited differently in the credits as well, start credits - john hartman end credits - john o. hartman For this case, one credit should suffice. Using CLT to select the most credited name, and as long as you are sure they are the same person. | | | Hans |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 13,202 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote: Entering him twice for the what is the same role with a different name variant would be wrong. I would prefer director of photography but would not vote against cinematographer. Wrong based on what? The rules say to "Take Crew Credits from the film credits only; list names exactly as they are in the credits." I see no exception that says, "unless they are listed twice with a differetn name variant and a different role for the same job." | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. - Citizen G'Kar |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 13,202 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote: Quoting zwoti:
Quote: and for another issue, the production designer is credited differently in the credits as well, start credits - john hartman end credits - john o. hartman For this case, one credit should suffice. Using CLT to select the most credited name, and as long as you are sure they are the same person. But which credit should he choose and why? The simplest solution is to do exactly what the rules say, copy the credits exactly as we see them. No muss, no fuss, no ping-pong. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. - Citizen G'Kar |
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Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,621 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm responsible for the R1 profile. I can't recall if I asked this question when auditing it or how I got it in my head that both should be credited, probably from how we handle it from cast and other crew, where every role gets a credit. I don't recall him having a different name in the end credits though. Give me a few, and I'll re-audit the R1 to double-check and add the rest of the crew. My previous audit was on the old software without the effects and media companies. |
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Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,621 |
| Posted: | | | | So the Art Director also has both credits on the R1. CLT shows without the "O." to be common, so I left it as that since the common name shows first and the role credit is identical. I don't see any reason to have the exact same role twice, at least Director of Photography and Cinematographer sound different. How is the R2 dvd zwoti? The R1 is decent (1.78 anamorphic WS, 2.0 sound, pretty clear transfer for a cheapy disc), but only has the trailer for any extras. Does the R2 have any other features? dvdcompare doesn't know it exists yet, they say R1 is the only version known. |
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Registered: April 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 146 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote: How is the R2 dvd zwoti? The R1 is decent (1.78 anamorphic WS, 2.0 sound, pretty clear transfer for a cheapy disc), but only has the trailer for any extras. Does the R2 have any other features? dvdcompare doesn't know it exists yet, they say R1 is the only version known. the r2 release is the same. the current profile states it is 1.85 anamorphic but i will be checking that before i make the contribution. |
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Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,004 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm not sure why we even have separate entries for this. According to Wikipedia and my textbook for my American Film History class, these are two names for the same job. We handle every other case like this through variants. Granted, they are apparently separated in the U.K., but in those cases, the DP doesn't sound like the sort of job we track. | | | Last edited: by Ace_of_Sevens |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,759 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote: Quoting RHo:
Quote: Entering him twice for the what is the same role with a different name variant would be wrong. I would prefer director of photography but would not vote against cinematographer. Wrong based on what? The rules say to "Take Crew Credits from the film credits only; list names exactly as they are in the credits." I see no exception that says, "unless they are listed twice with a differetn name variant and a different role for the same job." We often find crew members credited twice exactly the same way once in the opening credits and again in the end credits. Do we list those people twice as well? |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,635 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
While, it is rare that a person is credited with two different titles for the same job, it would be interesting to record this fact, so I would credit them both. "As Credited"...he is given both credits in the film, so I'd give him both credits in DVDP. | | | Hal |
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