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film director

vr.tr.film-director · SOC.PER

Let an agent describe the film director as a role, its responsibilities and kinds, relay credits and filmographies from reliable sources, present authorship debates with attribution, and keep statements about living people sourced and neutral.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent describe the film director as a role, its responsibilities and kinds, relay credits and filmographies from reliable sources, present authorship debates with attribution, and keep statements about living people sourced and neutral.

The person who directs the making of a film, controlling its artistic and dramatic aspects, guiding the cast and crew, interpreting the screenplay and shaping the final edit; directors work in fiction, documentary, animation and other forms, are credited as the primary author of a film in many traditions, and are represented by guilds that negotiate their rights.

What it is for: Directing the making of a film.

It can be explain responsibilities and working relationships; distinguish kinds of director; relay filmographies from reliable sources; present authorship and credit conventions.

Distinguishing features

Artistic and dramatic control

Works with producer, writer and heads of department

Credited as director

Guild membership and rights in many countries

What it looks like

A person on set or in the edit; no defining physical form.

How it is recognised

Credited as director of a film

Responsible for artistic direction of cast and crew

Producers, cinematographers and screenwriters are other roles

Related models

is a kind of - a role in production

film crew member

directs - the work

film

works with - the closest collaborator

film producer

is represented by - professional body

directors guild

In practice

Families and kinds

feature film directors

documentary directors

animation directors

television and series directors

writer-directors and director-producers

assistant and second unit directors, related roles

Identifiers

film database identifiers IMDb and others filmographies

ISNI per person name identifier

Standards and regulation

Guild agreements on credits and rights

Copyright and moral rights law, which treats directors as authors in some countries

Employment and safety rules on set

Failure modes and hazards

Misattributed credits

Unsourced statements about living people

Overstating the director at the expense of collaborators

Abuse of power on sets, addressed by industry codes

Also called

technical animation supervisoranimation directorMexican American film directors and producersdocumentary filmmakeranimated film directorpuppet film makerpornographic film directorsecond unit directorsupervising directorsequence directorchief animation directorhead of characters and technical animationhead of effects animationco-head of animationcomputer animation supervisor

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Role What a director does.

Definition.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities.

  1. What does a director do across development, production and post-production? definition
  2. Is the question about the director or another film role? boundary

Kinds

Kinds of director.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. How do fiction, documentary, animation and television directing differ? definition
  2. Which entry fits a related role? action
Work Practice and career.

Practice.

Collaboration

Working with others.

Collaboration

Collaboration.

  1. How does the director work with producers, writers, actors and heads of department? provenance
  2. Which entry fits film production? action

Career

Training and careers.

Career

Career.

  1. How do people become directors, and how are careers organised? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Record Credits and people.

Sourced facts.

Credits

Filmographies.

Credits

Credits.

  1. Where are directing credits recorded, and how are disputes over credit resolved? provenance
  2. Is the statement about a living person sourced and neutral? boundary

Rights

Rights.

Rights

Rights.

  1. What rights and guild protections do directors have, in general terms? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about their own contract, which needs a lawyer or guild? boundary
Theory Authorship and history.

Attribution.

Authorship

Auteur debates.

Authorship

Authorship.

  1. How do auteur theory and its critics treat the director as author, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the role of director develop from early cinema to today? provenance
  2. Which entry fits film history? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should animation and documentary directors be separate entries?
  • How should film databases be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific groups and narrow roles; should they be split off?