Director of what?

Dylan by all acounts is the director. He was in charge of the final product. Hence he was the director. Directors usually are. If they don't have others off screen to do the job like editing, directors may fill in.
 
Dylan Avery is pretty much Co-Producer, Writer, Director, and Editor of Loose Change. Usually the more credits in other positions the director has on a film, the crappier it is.

-Gumboot
 
re. talking about a "director's credit" for LC, is 'credit' the right word in the circumstances? I think involvement in the film is something one admits to, not takes credit for ;)
 
Alareth said:
Something has been nagging at me and I just have to ask, despite being referred to constantly as a director, what, if anything, has Dylan actually directed?

He didn't "direct" Loose Change, it edited it.

Is there anything out there that involved actors in front of a camera with Dylan saying "Action!" and guiding the performance?
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As a film school student, hearing or seeing Avery referred to as a filmmaker has always chaffed my goat. Like you say, he is not a filmmaker, he is a video editor. Making/directing an actual film (a successful film) requires a fair bit of artistic vision and talent and technical expertise that Avery has never displayed. But I bet he'd be the first and last person to tell you that.
 
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Liszt said:
not sure how this works with the "attack the arguement, not the person" rule, or even the point of posting this "information", especially in the CT section.
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The person is the argument. It is perfectly acceptable by board standards to civilly discuss people not active members of this board. May you start to interpret the rules correctly and continue to show a zealous desire to follow them.


ETA: Oops, I see this has already been covered. Please carry on.
 
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Drs_Res said:
You gotta love this from the IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914809/



From his bio page on the IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043033/



I know the IMDB is not the end all be all of bio information, but that's what is there.
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Did you see the first message board topic in Avery's bio? It is titled "Dylan Avery Is A Terrible Man". LMFAO!

I can't believe he has space on IMDB. This is very disheartening. However, as a film student, it is also encouraging. I mean if Avery can curry an audience of millions and get IMDB credit with his utterly unspectacular piece of crap...well...
 
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Mince said:
Did you see the first message board topic in Avery's bio? It is titled "Dylan Avery Is A Terrible Man". LMFAO!

I can't believe he has space on IMDB. This is very disheartening. However, as a film student, it is also encouraging. I mean if Avery can curry an audience of millions and get IMDB credit with his utterly unspectacular piece of crap...well...
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Anyone can get pretty much anything on IMDB. The filmmakers send the particulars about the film to the website with a list of crew etc.

-Gumboot
 
DGA definition of Director:

"Clause 15a - If, like, some dude makes a video and, like, posts it on the internets, and this video is showing something different to what the dude says it's showing, or he has to keep saying it shows something when only he can see it, like, and stuff, and if he does this enough times until,well, like, a little dude starts to agree that he can see the stuff too and it's like really wild and ****, then he can be called a director.... the big dude, not the little dude, coz, like, the little dude is just some dude watching it and stuff, but the big dude is directing the little dude to see stuff which might not even be there, like that scene in Star Wars, you know?"
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gumboot said:
Anyone can get pretty much anything on IMDB. The filmmakers send the particulars about the film to the website with a list of crew etc.

-Gumboot
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Nice. Thanks for the clarification. I thought IMDB was a bit more official and proper and formal than what you described. But I guess not. It is still a fantastic database.
 
gumboot said:
Anyone can get pretty much anything on IMDB. The filmmakers send the particulars about the film to the website with a list of crew etc.

-Gumboot
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100% accurate. It takes very little to get a page on IMDB.
For instance, Michael Vick,who has never made a movie or dramatic TV show in his life,has a IMDB page because he appeared on a Pre Season NFL show.
 
Mince said:
Nice. Thanks for the clarification. I thought IMDB was a bit more official and proper and formal than what you described. But I guess not. It is still a fantastic database.
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IMDB is a fun website,but no way is it a serious academic level database for films.
BTW,Alex Jones also has an IMDB page,and the posters there who beleive every word that Jones says are truly scary.
 
What is it, and I have always wondered this, is so goddamn awful about his presentation of the two interviews he has? Is it the lighting?
 
hey, if I'M listed in IMDB then anyone can get listed (however, my credit is duly deserved ^_^). Provided that they are honest about what they did. Sometimes the listings are not accurate. It is still a "user" maintained website, and to this day, a show that I watched in the 80's still has the wrong cast members listed on it, with several messages by me with the corrections that need to be made, being ignored. Ohs wells.
 
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