From the course: Creating a Short Film: 02 Writing
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About writing credits
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 02 Writing
About writing credits
- Writing credits are a weird and complicated thing. How do you know when someone gets credit for writing something? What if they write the best joke in the whole film? Should they get credit for that? The standard is that you get credit as a writer if you wrote at least a third of the movie, either on your own or with a partner, and those that contributed most have their names appear first in the order of writers. Also, the credit, "written by," means that you wrote the story and the screenplay. If one of the writers wrote the structure and characters and another typed up the script with all of it's dialog and description, you wouldn't have a "written by" credit. Instead, you would have a "story by" credit for the writer that came up with the overall narrative structure and a separate "screenplay by" credit for the writer that wrote the verbiage in the screenplay. If you work together with a partner, you would credit yourselves with an ampersand, like this. If multiple writers did…
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