More options for crew members (Music, Producer, Editor, etc)

 Hessa:

OST Singer should maybe go here: https://kisskh.at/discussions/suggestions/17413-ost-songs-of-a-drama-movie 

Yes, it we can connect those two things, it would be even better.

we also need to add Producing Director ie (PD) , it is not a producer or a director, 

some people would include running man and other variety shows PD's like Jeong Cheol Min as well as dramas https://www.soompi.com/article/1425343wpp/seo-hyun-jin-in-talks-for-new-drama-by-co-director-of-the-king-eternal-monarch

Out of major staff roles on movies and TV it’s strange that MDL has Art Director as an option but not Production Designer, which (in contemporary English usage) is the higher up role in the department.

The two terms have a long history of  confusion between what the difference between them is and which is the higher up role, but, nowadays, if something has only an Art Director or only a Production Designer they mean much the same thing – the person in charge of designing sets and dressing sets and locations. But if a production has both a Production Designer and one or more Art Directors, the Production Designer is the head of the department and the Art Directors work under them (see here for a summary).

In Japanese live-action credits, I believe from the order in which they appear in credits that 美術監督 (bijutsu kantoku) or, more rarely, 美術監修 (bijutsu kanshū) are both equivalent to Production Designer, and 美術 (bijutsu) on its own is the equivalent of Art Director (there are then sometimes lower-down roles like 美術助手 credited after 美術).

If a production has only 美術監督 or only 美術 than the translation doesn't actually matter, as PD and AD are used as interchangeably in English as those are in Japanese. But it would be best to translate them consistently, because when a production has both than the translation does matter, as it shows which of the people in this department is the one in charge.

It’s also a bit strange that Executive producer is currently written with producer uncapitalised, while for all other roles all important words are capitalised.

I agree with Chunyu.

 xxmai:

Agree. (:

New staff roles to be added:

• Planner
• Associate Producer - https://prnt.sc/vm3cuj

企画 on Japanese productions (what I'm most familiar with) is often fan-translated as 'Planning'/'Planner'; however, those aren't terms one finds in the credits of English-language productions.

I have seen 企画 translated officially as 'Development', and, as 'Developed by' is commonly used in the credits of English-language dramas (and English Wikipedia's TV programme infobox), I would say that 'Developer' is a more appropriate translation of 企画 in the context of it as a drama staff role, rather than translating it as something that is in English but not what it's called in English-language TV and cinema?

Admittedly, the use of the terms is not exactly the same. Japanese live-action productions tend to only use 原作 when referring to the creator of an earlier work in a different medium that the drama/movie is based on, so, on one with an original story, 企画 is equivalent to 'Created by' for drama series and 'Story by' for movies. But if one's to translate it the same way all the time, I think 'Developer' is the translation that will make sense in any context the most.

Can Creative Producer please be added, too? Thank you!

https://careertrend.com/about-6619271-job-description-creative-producer.html