Customs and decisions on putting bloopers in end credits?

Question

Who decides whether to put bloopers in end credits?I sort of feel like *any* comedy should pepper the end credits with bloopers, gags, or outtakes. I love them. Is there an industry view on the practice? Does it vary by director or production company?I assume that any feature-length film would have accumulated a decent number of unintentional bloopers on tape, if not staged gags. Any evidence to confirm or rebut that assumption?

Answer 1

The Director or Producer would make that decision as the film is being shot, most of the time. He or she would then relay the message to the Script Supervisor, who would write down the Rolls, Scenes, Takes and Timecodes of said bloopers. This would later be given to the Editor via EDL who is responsible for Logging, Capturing and/or Transferring footage, as additional material to import. The Editor in charge of Assembly would work closely with the Titles & Opticals specialist to make sure the credits are formatted in such a way to accommodate the blooper takes.

Conversely, if it's a lower-budget film and the Director, Producer, or even Writer wishes to be in the editing room with the Editor in charge of Assembly, the decision can be made right then and there. The nice part about this is this footage generally does not need post-processing through color correction, VFX, surround mixing, etc., mainly just syncronization with the boom and that's it.