ANSWERED: Story Editor - which section?

There are 30,425 credits for Story Editor in the Writers section
Also executive story editor (117), junior story editor (196), senior story editor (277), series story editor (105), story editor/writer (100) & supervising story editor (29) and others

There are 103,992 credits as Story Editor in the Misc (Other Crew) section
Also senior story editor (3,083), series story editor (1,108) and many others

Steve

OK. So a writer with a attribute of story editor is not unusual. Fair enough. That's what I wanted to check. I'll carry on submitting successive episodes like that (and move the one that I accidentally put into the producers section earlier today!)

There's a fair amount of tidying to do for the three Great XXX Railway/Roadroad Journeys series because over the years I've submitted loads of Post Production Coordinator credits in the Misc rather than Editorial section.

Hi martinu-2,

Story editor credits should be submitted to the writer section.

Regards,
Will

As a matter of interest, in a documentary (railway-based travelogue), what does a story editor do, given that the programmes are factual rather than fictional? The same person was credited as Producer or Edit Producer in all the earlier seasons.

It is a job title which can cover a whole multitude of roles. I guess it's similar with something like Big Brother, they look at the footage then tailor that footage around a centralised story of their own creation. In a factual based program a "story" could refer to the order in which the presenter/viewer experiences events which creates the overall narrative of the show.

Regards,
Will

Is that a strict hard-and-fast rule?

I discovered "story editor" in the other credits section years ago and have been keeping it there in my submissions, especially since I update titles that already have "story editor" credits in that section -- it would be confusing to have it in two sections. I don't want to have to spend my time updating every title, or even most titles, that I contribute to by moving credits from one to the other.

My personal thinking has been that main writers (story by, written by, screenplay by, teleplay by), creators, and developers should go there while additional writers, staff writers, story editors, executive story editors, so forth I'd keep in the other credits section, especially since I found them there years ago.

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Hi justinboggan,

No we starting accepting these as writers a few years ago. We have a number of contributors going back and amending these to the writers section but if you do submit these attributes please do so in the writer section.

Thanks,
Will

Hey Will:
I don't know if it would help contributors if the story editor responsibility be removed from the drop down menu under the "Other Crew" section. Would that screw up the existing story editor entries under Other Crew?
Gene