Credit Question

Brickhouse

Brickhouse

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One of the people helping me make the film which I'm currently working on is asking that he gets credited as Executive Producer, however I'm no sure what to credit him as.

His job is to contact locations I ask him to contact for permission. Also, I have him in charge of contacting and organizing extras. How would you credit someone who does these jobs?
 
Brickhouse said:
One of the people helping me make the film which I'm currently working on is asking that he gets credited as Executive Producer, however I'm no sure what to credit him as.

His job is to contact locations I ask him to contact for permission. Also, I have him in charge of contacting and organizing extras. How would you credit someone who does these jobs?
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Location Manager, for the first. And for the second, Extras Casting Director.
 
Those credits/job descriptions are correct. However, if you aren't constrained by union rules or contractual obligations, there won't be any "Credit Cops" to keep you from negotiating just about any credit title you want. I once credited a girlfriend as "Chief Holder of Stuff"and you have to love the Rami "Fake Shemps".
 
It seems odd to me that someone is asking for that credit when doing those jobs. Do they even know anything about filmmaking? You can credit people however you want in the indie world, but the EP credit is usually reserved for someone who is either securing financing, financing the project, or has some large amount of creative control or oversight.

People throw "producer" credits around a bit too liberally, IMHO. It both obscures specific responsibilities (as it would in this case), and completely minimizes the efforts of the people who are actually doing the job of producing.
 
EP????? Not a chance in Hell. Location Scout and Extra Casting Director, okay. But Producer credit takes serious work (just ask me, our film premeires day after tomorrow and still fuk'ing working on it). As someone who earned his stripes as a Producer, I would look at someone given the title "EP" or even just "Producer" who had not really worked for it, in a laughing matter or as a freakin' real joke. One or two questions would tell me the whole story. And in any serious interview situation, so would any potential employer. So....ask him this: do you want to be a credible entity in film-making or do you want to pretend to be one? Do you want a real credit, or a made up one? Any potential employer would see through the BS credit right away. So....what does he want?

So give whatever credit you decide. But if he wants to be taken seriously in this industry, only give what credit that he really deserves. Anything else demeans you and him. Feel free to quote me. EP. Oh my God!!!! Can someone say DELUSIONAL????????????

Ramble and rant ensues outside of DVX as I sign off, protecting sensitive ears, "Executive producer......................... for just finding location...............................and wrangling extras..............................where the Hell was this production when I was providing weapons, tac gear, military vehicles, actor's training, technical advice, and set armorer? I received a Producer credit, after all that work. And he thinks he deserves Executive Producer?????????? LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok. Hmmmmmmph, If he thinks so.
 
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Jim Brennan said:
People throw "producer" credits around a bit too liberally,
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This applies in the union environment, too. Of the twelve to sixteen various 'associate,' or 'supervising,' or 'executive' producers listed in the credits of any given tv show, you can take it to the bank that one or two of them handle actual producing duties (the rest of that work falls upon the showrunner or UPM) and the remainder are granted the credits because they're someone's friends, college roomates, in-laws, cousins or simply providers of a preferred grade of oral sex (or they are writers with sufficient clout to appropriate the credit for themselves as a stroke, whether they actually do any of the producing work, or not).
 
Hmmm, that has always been my perception. But let's take that a step further. As someone who works in the belly of the beast, is there a sense in the industry of who the "real" producers are?
 
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