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| Registered: February 18, 2009 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 38 |
| | Posted: | | | | I was reviewing an existing entry for "Wild Tigers" and I noticed that a Group Divider was created for the cast which followed the following header: "Featuring".
I haven't seen this very often, but I've always added them as normal cast members. I've never used the Group Divider. What is correct for this? |
| | Registered: November 24, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,278 |
| | Posted: | | | | I wouldn't include dividers such as "Featuring", or "And" or "With". They come up fairly often and add nothing but confusion to the Cast listing. |
|   | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting GreyHulk: Quote:
I wouldn't include dividers such as "Featuring", or "And" or "With". Me neither. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting GreyHulk: Quote:
I wouldn't include dividers such as "Featuring", or "And" or "With". They come up fairly often and add nothing but confusion to the Cast listing. I guess that's a matter of perspective. I like them, and have entered them, as they do have meaning. Often times a well known actor will receive "last billing" when they play a smaller role and they are usually preceded by an "and" or "with". As to the original question, I don't believe the rules indicate a 'correct way' for these types of headers other than they are allowed. Beyond that, it seems like a trivial issue so I'll just leave it at that and return you to your regularly scheduled program. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,673 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have always found the rules about this confusing: Quote:
• Use Group dividers to designate cast grouped in the credits such as "Soldiers" or "Additional Cast".
• "Cast", "In order of appearance" or other similar headers at the start of the credits should not be entered. So, we can't include "Cast", but "Additional cast" is OK?  Where does "Featuring", "And" and "With" fit into these two rules? Personally I am inclined to agree with GreyHulk and T!M; I would not include them. And, as far as them having meaning, I think that "In order of appearance" has more meaning than "Featuring", "And" and "With". Draw your own conclusions ... | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
Gunnar | | | | Last edited: by GSyren |
| | Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 127 |
| | Posted: | | | | The issue I see with Featuring et al is that they tend to be sub-sections in the opening credits but not in the closing credits even though the same actor is listed in both. In contrast people under Soldiers, etc. generally don't even make the opening credits, so it's less likely for cast member to be in a sub-section at the start of the movie/show but not at the end. That said, it's a relatively minor issue so if someone put them in, I wouldn't get into an edit war over it. |
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