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So a week and a half maybe has passed since I joined indietalk, and I've seen a lot of people sharing thoughts and the vibes in this site is pretty awesome, so I thought maybe I could share my experience on, probably, the most underrated thing in a movie: Closing Credits.
Since I can remember, everybody would always tell me "But why do you include so many people in the credits?".
Well, growing up as an artist has given me the opportunity to join a lot of random projects, and after years and years of happily helping everybody out, I've realized one thing: My name is in some 10% of the credits in projects I've worked on.
This has been a huge frustration to me for many years, specially when the people I helped out had success and never spoke to me again.
It's almost IMPOSSIBLE to make a movie your own: you need a crew. Specially when you're starting and you want to build a net, you need people who will do favors to you for free - Give credit in your movie.
Sometimes it has been easy for myself to put my name 10 times in the roll credits because, ugh, obviously I did SO much stuff. But... well... there was this one guy who helped me in a couple of roles... and my little sister has filmed my last 5 short films... hum... maybe it would be nice from me to put their names too.
And finally: a recent experience.
So I was filming my recent feature "Revenge, Porn & Katana", and I was at a Sound Recording Studio. I already knew the owner from before, but this time there was a new young guy walking around, setting up the scene, etc.
I approached him and asked him his name, and after noticing he made a weird face, I straightly said: "You're helping here, I want your name to be displayed in the credits".
He instantly appeared to be much happier and started working hard on everything I would tell him on set, and he as well telling me at the end that I could call him again for future shootings. You want a crew like this, right?
So what I usually do when shooting up is writting down the name of each one helping me out that day. This way, not only you make sure that everybody gets credit, but also if someone prefers to use maybe a nickname or whatever.
Let me know your experience regarding this theme!
So a week and a half maybe has passed since I joined indietalk, and I've seen a lot of people sharing thoughts and the vibes in this site is pretty awesome, so I thought maybe I could share my experience on, probably, the most underrated thing in a movie: Closing Credits.
Since I can remember, everybody would always tell me "But why do you include so many people in the credits?".
Well, growing up as an artist has given me the opportunity to join a lot of random projects, and after years and years of happily helping everybody out, I've realized one thing: My name is in some 10% of the credits in projects I've worked on.
This has been a huge frustration to me for many years, specially when the people I helped out had success and never spoke to me again.
It's almost IMPOSSIBLE to make a movie your own: you need a crew. Specially when you're starting and you want to build a net, you need people who will do favors to you for free - Give credit in your movie.
Sometimes it has been easy for myself to put my name 10 times in the roll credits because, ugh, obviously I did SO much stuff. But... well... there was this one guy who helped me in a couple of roles... and my little sister has filmed my last 5 short films... hum... maybe it would be nice from me to put their names too.
And finally: a recent experience.
So I was filming my recent feature "Revenge, Porn & Katana", and I was at a Sound Recording Studio. I already knew the owner from before, but this time there was a new young guy walking around, setting up the scene, etc.
I approached him and asked him his name, and after noticing he made a weird face, I straightly said: "You're helping here, I want your name to be displayed in the credits".
He instantly appeared to be much happier and started working hard on everything I would tell him on set, and he as well telling me at the end that I could call him again for future shootings. You want a crew like this, right?
So what I usually do when shooting up is writting down the name of each one helping me out that day. This way, not only you make sure that everybody gets credit, but also if someone prefers to use maybe a nickname or whatever.
Let me know your experience regarding this theme!
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