In order to generalize media, I have grouped certain attributes. Artists, directors, producers are simply known as “creators”, regardless if the entity is a person or company. These are part of production to any media (creators), but production may include non-entity information such as medium, form, dates, and countries. Here is where we generalize.
There are many different titles for these creators; for example “Sound Director” is a “director.” While it would be great to specify the type of director, it is only relevant for cinema, television, animation and possibly music. In order to spread creators over all media, here is the list of acceptable production attributes (including non-creators bolded):
- Artist
- Animation
- Art
- Assistant
- Author
- Background
- Broadcaster
- Characters
- Cinematography
- Color
- Composition
- Country
- Creator
- Date
- Director
- Editor
- Effects
- Form
- Illustrator
- Journalist
- Label
- Language
- Locale
- Mangaka
- Medium
- Music
- Period
- Photography
- Planning
- Producer
- Production
- Publisher
- Rating
- Screenplay
- Screenwriter
- Season
- Serialization
- Sound
- Story
- Studio
- Theme
- Type
- Writer
This is a working list, as I have only thought about it for a short time. I was aiming to expand the list with more complications into something like this (sample taken from a page on ANN):
- 2nd Key Animation
- Animation
- Animation Check
- Animation director
- Animation Production
- Art
- Art director
- Background
- Background Animation
- Background Director
- Background Production
- Background Scanning
- Broadcaster
- CGI
- Character Design
- Color Check
- Color design
- Color Inspection
- Color setting
- Director
- Director of Photography
- Editing
- Episode Director
- Film Director
- Finish Animation
- Finishing
- Key Animation
- Music
- Music producer
- Music Production
- Original creator
- Photography
- Planning Manager
- Production
- Production Advancement
- Production Coordination
- Publicity
- Recording Director Assistant
- Recording Studio
- Script
- Series Composition
- Sound Effects
- Sound Production
- Special Effects
- Storyboard
- Technical director
- Theme Song Arrangement
- Theme Song Composition
- Theme Song Lyrics
- Theme Song Performance
- Video Editing
Should melative incorporate all of these specific titles? I am not sure, because they are not applicable to every media, and slightly redundant. If melative was centered around motion media, this would be a sure thing, but for now it is questionable.
I should also mention, that the production ENUM is for bbcodes, and within the bbcodes [note][/note] may be used openly; ie [director]Kurosawa[note]12th film[/note][/director]. So there is some flexibility
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