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Hello. Quick Question.
When contributing uncredited cast, do we use the Credit Lookup Tool to determine what name to contribute to the online database, or do we just use the name as given in the source being used to identify the cast?
I rarely contribute uncredited cast, but at the moment I'm looking at a music disc with no on-screen cast credits, but it did come with a booklet that contains all that information. My understanding is that these are classed as uncredited, but as several have their stage names used in the booklet, I realised I wasn't sure which route to go down in terms of what names to use.
Thanks! | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 435 |
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Edward A. Warschilka - Edited by - "Falling Skies: The Complete First Season" (Episode 1 - don't think he's involved with any others)
Edward A. Warschilka - Film Editor - "The Last Ship" (At least one episode from each of Seasons 1, 3, 4 & 5)
Edward A. Warschilka - Film Editor - "In the Mouth of Madness" | Posted: Topic Replies: 11, Topic Views: 3707 |
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Maritza L. Garcia - Costume Supervisor - "The Meteor Man"
Maritza Garcia-Roddy - Costume Supervisor - "Life: Season One" (Checked Episodes 7, 8 & 11)
Maritz Garcia-Roddy - Costume Supervisor - "Life: Season One" (Checked Episode 6 - I think the first episode she's credited for)
Maritza Garcia-Roddy - Costume Supervisor - "Life: Season Two" (Checked Episodes 1 and 20) | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 1819 |
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It's not on the list of films provided, but:
Jim Bissell - Art Director - "Good Luck Miss Wyckoff" | Posted: Topic Replies: 37, Topic Views: 21249 |
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What about von/Von, when it's part of a name in a title? (The inconsistent use of this for names in the database makes me, as you might expect, incandescent with fury, but it has a relevance to titles too.)
There are probably other words mostly from non-English titles (or 'foreign words' adopted into English), plus the fact the other languages aren't so keen on capitalising most things. Not sure how the capitalization tool deals with these.
Maybe Invelos should had gone down the Discogs route and just capitalised every word; not technically correct but a lot easer to do. | Posted: Topic Replies: 23, Topic Views: 3670 |
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Hello everyone. Thanks for your thoughts.
That's certainly cleared that up then! 
I think I'll submit an update to a profile to add a Visual Effects Supervisor from an Additional Special Effects Company and see what happens. (It's "Elektra" 5039036042277 if anyone is interested and wants to look at the actual credits.)
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 Well, I won't be doing that after all, as it's already there. I must have seen it in the profile and wondered if it was right, rather than seen it in the credits and wondered if it should be in the profile. But I would have sworn I was right the first time. Old age...  | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 1738 |
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I was wondering, is there a general consensus about this?
Sometimes credits include a heading something like "Visual Effects by Bla Bla Bla" and under it a Visual Effects Supervisor is listed. Generally this individual is contributed, sometimes with and sometimes without the company details added in a divider.
However, if the heading is something like "Additional Visual Effects by Bla Bla Bla" do we include or exclude the individual if he's still credited as a Visual Effects Supervisor? It gets more confusing if the company divider isn't included, as then there's no context for the submission of the individual.
The Rules say we include Visual Effects Supervisors but I don't think there's any clear guide on what to do in this sort of case.
Apologies if this has been considered before. Thanks. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 1738 |
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Quoting GSyren:
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If you make sure that "Automatically lock all changed items" is checked at the bottom of the Edit window, your data should be safe.
Thanks for this. For some reason I had it ticked for cast but not crew. | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 2475 |
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I feel your pain!  The eyesight, the using the TV for 4K discs, the tragic loss you have suffered.
In my local database I collect details (writers and performers) for all of the music that's used in films etc. As so many stage names and other naming anomalies crop up, this can take a long time, especially for very obscure artists. (And nearly always in an extra tiny font that even in HD can still be blurry when magnified.) Even now, years later, I can remember spending what my memory now considers "forever" profiling a film on DVD that had over 50 bits of music credited as used in it, mostly by hip-hop / rap artists, most of whom were not well known, many of whom had multiple stage names. Then I did something that resulted in my losing all the information.
I'm pretty sure my brain has purposefully blocked out the details of this catastrophe (I can't even remember what film it was now) to prevent me from suffering permanent psychological damage. Even now when I go through this profiling process, I sit worrying how often I should save what I've typed in vs the extra time doing this a lot would use up. It's like the mouse is being dragged towards the Cancel Button, which itself gets bigger and bigger the more records I've inputted but not yet saved, whilst the Save & Close one itself shrinks until it's the size of one pixel and sneakily hides behind the former! It sounds completely stupid but I'm pretty sure it's true.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 2475 |
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Big thank you greyghost (and really sorry if I've missed anyone else out for thanks) for this. I'd never have stumbled across it in a million years.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 68, Topic Views: 13809 |
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Thank you. This has made me far happier than it has any right to! 
I feel like a guy who for years has sat on his roof each night sending out radio signals into the universe and then one evening gets a reply!
And when will I ever not feel like the new kid on the block around here, with only 14 years since registration? | Posted: Topic Replies: 51, Topic Views: 15009 |
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In the UK, quoted prices for everything always include tax (Value Added Tax in our case). No one in day to day conversation talks about non VAT prices, unless they're moaning about paying VAT in general on certain things and not on others! The only people buying anything who're interested in net of VAT prices are businesses, as they can sometimes claim it back. Prices in shops and online almost always include VAT, unless it's a seller focused on business customers, where they sometimes exclude the VAT in the primary cost they advertise.
Is there actually a formal description of what SRP is?
Not that I'm very interested in SRP prices one way or the other, as they seem pretty meaningless these days and I actually clear that field in my local database. | Posted: Topic Replies: 10, Topic Views: 7961 |
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