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[mad monkey awesomeness productions]

There's video I made for a project, and it turned out really well. The teacher said it was one of the best he'd ever seen, and word went around really fast, and alot of people saw it. However, I let one of my friends act in the movie, and he's taking WAY too much credit. Someone told me that he heard that he did 1/4th of the work when he only was in one scene, and held the camera for about 1 min. of the video. Also, he's telling everyone how exactly how I made the video, and becuase I'm more of the "A magician never tells his secret" kind of person, it's really bugging me, only made worse by the fact that he didn't even ask me if he could tell. I added him in the credits for EXACTLY and only what he did, but he's trying to get more credit because my movie was successful. Is this just a fact of filmmaking, or is there a way I can deal with this.

[AaronHeld]

Just let him know, If he doesn't listen he will dig his own grave if someone asks him something he can't answer, if your the one who should get most of the credit tell your crew, actors to not tell everyone how you do things and say thats its a group project no one should get more credit then the other. I've had this happen to much I created the idea, I developed the idea I helped make the idea(usually doing all the grunt work while trying to get things together), but because i didn't edit it my friend would steal the director credit and take most of the credit... I don't let it bother me because it doesn't matter who gets the credit... But if it's a problem, then you have to say something or tell him to cool it on the bragging.. if you think it's really gonna be a problem you can kick him off future projects.

[WesScog]

Unfortunately it's a fact of filmmaking that you'll run into, and occasionally work with people that both will try to take creative control of your film away from you, and people that will exaggerate their own contribution once it's completed.

My advice? Just don't work with him anymore.

[Wra1th13]

Unfortunately it's a fact of filmmaking that you'll run into, and occasionally work with people that both will try to take creative control of your film away from you, and people that will exaggerate their own contribution once it's completed.

My advice? Just don't work with him anymore.
Yup, wes is right, it's great though when you work with close friends, because they usually don't do that.

[Radstrike]

50 cal. at 500m. Don't forget to calculate the windspeed.

[Radstrike]

That'll learn him.