Freebase: Discussion about robert

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-14T00:48:43.0005Z

Added Casting, Production Design, Art Direction to the sandbox /film/film type for your perusal.

If no-one is objecting I could make these live on production late Monday, Nov 16 2009.

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-13T21:01:20.0006Z

Funkily enough, "executive produced" does seem to be a fairly standard usage, amongst industry media, anyway.

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-12T01:32:49.0025Z

I'd prefer the former, both pointing to film producer which would have films produced and films executive produced as a return linkages... Well that doesn't scan too well. Served as executive film producer on ... ?

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-11T21:52:01.0000Z

Well, that's pretty true. Thinking about it further, it does seem that an executive producer in film is a completely different sort of role than the other various types of producers (despite the similiarity of names), so creating a new property makes sense. Next question: should it expect the existing Film Producer type or a new Film Executive Producer type?

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-10T21:47:57.0038Z

I think the break would be pretty catastrophic given how many apps are built on Film now.

I would strongly prefer a new property over mediating the Producer relationship.

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-10T21:16:47.0058Z

I prefer inserting the mediator, although it's a breaky change. It would bring film into line with TV shows, though: TV Producer term

Film: Production credit, Executive versus the rest

2009-11-10T20:57:33.0026Z

I believe it may be advantageous to separate out the role of an Executive Producer from that of the Producer (and Assistant/Associated Producer).

We could do it simply with a new property for Executive produced by, example on sandbox, that points to Film producer. Regular production and associated/assistant production would remain with original property.

(Better might be inserting a mediator between Produced by and Film Producer, with enumerated topics for Executive, Associate, Assistant, and blank for the regular credit.)

Any objections? Improvements?

Automotive: Split engine from engine type

2009-11-08T16:51:58.0000Z

I think a Straight-4 is best described as an /automotive/engine_type, and the data attributing Straight-4 as an /automotive/engine should really be split out to the appropriate engine. These individual engines would obviously be of engine type Straight-4 though.

I'm not too familiar with the automotive commons, or which engine is appropriate for each of the cars trim levels listed - but if someone has the time and knowledge.....