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Your name in film credits

Not that you've done much mind
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When buying, or collecting, cinema tickets from automated machines you (optionally) type in the names of each of the ticket holders. As the credits roll by at the end of the film the last category is dropped in (not sure how, possibly a second projector comes into play) showing the names

eg

Costumes by

Stunts by

Watched by (in order of appearance)

Mony a Mickle, Nov 22 2008

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       Yeah. I hope that will make more people read the remaining credits and realize they have to admire everyone behind the scenes.
kamathln, Nov 22 2008
  

       But I can imagine all sorts of privacy issues coming into play ;-)
kamathln, Nov 22 2008
  

       I often watch for my name to come up in the credits... but alas it never does +
xenzag, Nov 22 2008
  

       // all sorts of privacy issues //   

       Why ? It's optional. You don't even have to put your full name, maybe just "Kenny and Linda". Why not ? [+]
8th of 7, Nov 22 2008
  

       //It's Optional//   

       Hadn't noticed that. Any ways, I hope it will be done only after the ID is confirmed.
kamathln, Nov 22 2008
  

       I think it would be funny if the producer of a film that bombed put this at the end of the credits on the DVD release version.   

       "...Best boy: Joe Smith Gaffer: Doug Brown   

       And our special thanks to those who purchased tickets to view this in the theater: Clara Williams, Steve Bronstine, Craig Evans...."   

       List a couple of hundred names. Like in this movie I saw where one guys says "I bought your book." and the other says "That was you eh?" or something like that.
doctorremulac3, Nov 22 2008
  

       [+] Would this 5 seconds count against your 15 Minutes of fame.
theGem, Nov 22 2008
  

       Kind of baked, in a slightly different way, by Peter jackson with the extended DVD versions of Lord of the Rings. At the end of the credits there is a list, in aphabetical order, of all the people who signed up to the LoTR website before the film's theatrical release. Which was pretty cool of him.
DrBob, Nov 22 2008
  

       Some people put a fair amount of effort to get their names up on the screen, including finishing contracts and altering wedding plans.   

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       I'd rather credits be limited to people who spent at least three months on a project, even if this cuts out the actors themselves.
mylodon, Nov 22 2008
  

       $100 a birthday notice   

       $300 for a marriage proposal   

       Double that price for the same requests in subtitles or written remarks during a movie.
pashute, Jul 20 2014
  

       Wouldn't someone just throw in "Myra Hindley" or "Robert William Fisher" once in a while to see what happened?
MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 20 2014
  

       Would this be copyrighted? Could you lose the movie rights to your name or group and have to find another?
popbottle, Jul 20 2014
  

       I went to a play (well, more of a “theatrical art performance”) once where they asked everyone to write the name of someone who inspired them on a slip of paper and place it in a box near each seat. At the end of the performance they rolled some “credits”, which included every name written down. Somehow they had snuck into the boxes during the one-act performance, stolen the slips, and typed up all the names in the span of 90 minutes or so. It was actually kind of neat.
ytk, Jul 21 2014
  

       Had my name on a couple of movies in the songwriting credits and thought it was pretty cool, but just having your name up there for buying a ticket doesn't seem super exciting.
doctorremulac3, Jul 22 2014
  

       You had one job Phil!   
      
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