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ANSWERED: Story Editor - which section?

posted 8 years ago by martinu-2
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In a documentary series "Great American Railroad Journeys" (2016) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378198/combined, Season 2 episodes, there is a credit on-screen for Colette Hooper as Story Editor. This is in amongst various producer credits such as Assistant Producer, Edit Producer, Commissioning Editor etc. Colette Hooper has many Producer credits, mainly for Michael Portillo's Great British/Continental/American Railway/Railroad Journeys programmes.

Someone has added her Story Editor credits in the Writers section. I've continued this trend when submitting details for other episodes in the Season, but is Writers the best place to put these credits?

They are definitely not Editor/Editorial credits, because (like Commissioning Editor) they use the word "editor" in the sense of newspaper editor (deciding policy on what is and isn't included) rather than in the sense of the mechanics of selecting the shots, cutting to time and joining film/videotape/MPEG files.

[–] justinboggan 8 years ago

This is an especially frustrating thing since IMDb only lets you add ten credits at a time in an update to the Writers section (similarly frustrating in the Music Department section).

It's not uncommon to find a series that has two or three creators, one to three writers per episode, and two story editors, a script supervisor, and then many shows have more writing credits. That's an average of seven. I've fairly regularly encountered series where I had to use well over ten, so annoyingly I have to do two seperate updates. I wish this could be changed. Why do some sections have to be so frustratingly low? Let me tell you, I was pissed off having to submit three batches for almost thirty credits in a Music Department section of a documentary series.

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