Movie 7pt1

[johnkclark]

Shaun Hately <shaun.hately at ...> wrote:

> "For a start, the length of the credit roll really doesn't have much 
> influence on anything else in the movie. A movie like Deathly Hallows 
> costs somewhere on the order of $10,000 a second to make. That's why 
> every second counts more than anything else. The credit section is much 
> cheaper". 

It's cheaper but I don't know about much cheaper, some credits have elaborate special effects, effects nobody sees because the audience is already half way home by the time they hit the screen. Also the total length of the film, which includes credits, determines how many times it can be shown each day; and if its a long movie and you want to fit it on one DVD or Blue Ray disk the more video compression you'll have to use and the less clear it will be; that seems a very high price to pay for information that almost nobody wants and could be found on the web for the very very few that are interested.  

 >"In modern film making when you are often contracted for single films at a 
 time, rather than working full time for a studio and assigned to its 
films (as used to be much more standard) your list of credits is the way 
you get future jobs. If the studios didn't have to release a list of  credits with the movie, many would never bother to release that  information at all"

Then lets compromise, keep the credits but speed them up so they run in 15 seconds rather than 8 minutes; they are already unread so a change to making them unreadable is virtually no change at all, and all concerned could still say their name was in the movie.  

 > "These people work very hard to provide you with pleasure and enjoyment"

And I'm sure the guy who ran the press that printed JKR's book worked very hard, but I really don't need to know his name.

 John K Clark