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"Video by" credit
How should a "Video by" credit be entered? I can't find anything in the guides about what it should be listed as. To me it suggests Director & Producer? Maybe Editor too?
I made submissions for these two music videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVw3QS_6Jk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydH-LYRBvEc
Both of which have "Video by Jessica Sipos" in the description. While the overall submissions were accepted
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30805527/reference/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30805531/reference/
the credits for Jessica Sipos were rejected. I added her as both Director & Producer as wasn't sure but both were rejected.
Also I'm not clear whether the rejected was because it was in the wrong credit or if not believed it was actually her. It clearly is - her instagram is tagged in one of the videos.
Thanks in advance
gromit82
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9 months ago
Lopek: My guess, and this is not certain, is that the "Video by Jessica Sipos" credit is roughly equivalent to crediting her as director.
But I would not advise "translating" the "Video by" credit into multiple jobs like both director and producer, much less also editor. Jessica Sipos doesn't even have one on-screen credit in these titles (which, admittedly, is not unusual for a music video on YouTube); one vague credit in the YouTube description shouldn't entitle her to more than one credit listing on IMDb for each title.
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eboy
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9 months ago
Adding credits such as ”producer” or ”editor” to a person could mean that it reads something like ”xx is a director, producer and editor” in the automatically generated list on the person’a name page.
So it’s best to treat someone’s name page with respect and not to add occupations based on guess work. If you don’t know, then don’t add.
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