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The End Run
Company blog · endcrawl.com/blogculturebusiness
The End Run is the company blog at endcrawl.com, writing about culture and business. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Ordering movie credits with graph theory”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
The End Run is Endcrawl's blog on film and TV industry disruption, including a multi-part series on why Hollywood hasn't been disrupted yet and a post on ordering movie credits with graph theory.
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Most-linked posts?
- Ordering movie credits with graph theory3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-21
What Hacker News says?
There are two kinds of "disruption": * The first merely inconveniences people who already work in a given industry, by forcing them to learn new tools or workflows. * The second unseats incumbents and fundamentally shifts power dynamics. "Hollywood", "Film" et al have by and large not been disrupted yet, in the second sense. Digital change came late to film & tv. We are just now on the tail end of digital transforma…
Comment linking /blog/two-digital-revolutions-disruption/
on “Hollywood as We Know It Is Over”Submitted Ordering movie credits with graph theory as a story · 210 points
HN discussionIf two movies disagree on the ordering, it is not necessarily the case that one of them is doing it "wrong". (Author here.) Indeed! This is about trying to discover emergent conventions, so we can give first-time filmmakers a good starting point. Or you could do it quadratically by making a matrix of A-follows-B frequencies and then summing up all pairs of entries in your list (normalizing by the length of the list)…
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on “Ordering movie credits with graph theory”Submitted Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5 as a story · 112 points
HN discussion> What's the point of trying to come up with a single optimal order? On the frontpage of Endcrawl, the company behind this blog post: > Ace your end credits and de-stress post production with the solution used by over 2,000 films and series. Having a standard template seems like a way to easily "de-stress post production", and maybe even "ace your end credits". If this actually becomes an industry standard, the comp…
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on “Ordering movie credits with graph theory”Submitted The RED Camera Was Not a Disruptive Innovation as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> most people get into cinema for love, not money Isn't that part 4? http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-4/
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on “Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5”Submitted Ordering Movie Credits with Graph Theory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's worth reading the entire series, beginning with http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-1/ . While large tech companies are great at attracting talent, that doesn't create a dearth of talent going into smaller startups. The driver here is Part 1: the capital requirements for any high-quality project are huge and up-front. And as entertainment is getting increasingly saturated, there's no real way f…
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on “Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5”Submitted Ordering Movie Credits with Graph Theory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Billy Lynn, the First 120fps Feature Film as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Wizard of Oz” end credits had only ELEVEN names as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Film Industry and the Smiling Curve as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Credit the Film Offices in Your End Titles as a story · 1 points
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