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Credits from Second Unit?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorRander
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I'm processing a new DVD that isn't in the database, and now I'm not exactly sure how to do it...

In the credits, up comes something like this:

SECOND UNIT
Director of Photography: Donald F. Duck

(Names changed to protect the innocent!  )

What exactly is a Second Unit? Do we credit them?
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What exactly is a Second Unit?


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In film, the second unit is a team that shoots footage which is of lesser importance for the final motion picture, as opposed to the first unit, which shoots all scenes involving actors, or at least the stars of the film. Second unit footage typically includes shots like scenery, close-ups of objects and other inserts or cutaways.


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Do we credit them?

No.

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Is there actually a rule stating that we don't enter second and "other" unit crew or is it a general consensus that we all follow.
I only ask because i cannot find anything in the rules about it.
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Is there actually a rule stating that we don't enter second and "other" unit crew or is it a general consensus that we all follow.
I only ask because i cannot find anything in the rules about it.

Unit photographers are specifically excluded. It's sort of extrapolated from that, but you are correct that it's not expressly excluded.
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Unit photographers are specifically excluded. It's sort of extrapolated from that, but you are correct that it's not expressly excluded.

Reinforcing this is the notation for Directors:

Do not include Unit Directors or Directors of Special Features
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Another one I've run across is "Battle Sequences directed by Donald F. Duck" (he does get around).  I'm treating this as second unit and not crediting it, but there are also second unit directors credited so it seems to be somewhere between the two.  It's on the same title card as the principal director, if that makes a difference.  Would anyone take a different approach?
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Quoting m.cellophane:
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Unit photographers are specifically excluded. It's sort of extrapolated from that, but you are correct that it's not expressly excluded.

Reinforcing this is the notation for Directors:

Do not include Unit Directors or Directors of Special Features

True. I forgot that one.

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Another one I've run across is "Battle Sequences directed by Donald F. Duck" (he does get around).  I'm treating this as second unit and not crediting it, but there are also second unit directors credited so it seems to be somewhere between the two.  It's on the same title card as the principal director, if that makes a difference.  Would anyone take a different approach?

I treat them as unit crew also.
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