Credits

What this is about

Feature work has conventions for credit order; corporate and commercial work usually has none, and a ninety-second cut has no room anyway. That collides with a real interest: for freelancers a credit is proof of experience, which is why the naming question belongs in the booking conversation rather than in delivery week. Common compromises are a credit block on the project page, a named case study, or naming in the long version only. Job titles matter too — head of department, operator and assistant are different lines on a CV.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

Where this differs from the general case:

• Agree the credit at booking, not at delivery — by then runtime and client approval are already fixed
• Order and job title carry meaning in the industry; a wrong function line is worse than no credit at all
• When the film has no room, a named project page or case study is the usual substitute

With TillyGen

TillyGen carries the crew list from the first plan, so the names in the credits match the people who worked the days.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.