Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
2) Do some 1930's stuff and use a slate board and worry
about the sync later. Nope. I don't have that much time.
Clapper boards are not just '1930s stuff' They also give a visual ident of
scene number etc.
I never got that. Here in the US, we have slates. In the UK you have
clappers. We have a PA doing the slating, but in the UK you have a
clapper girl. Sometimes the clapper girl is a young man.
Best slate ever:
http://www.panix.com/~kludge/lizard13.jpg
(It's an MOS slate without a clapstick though.)
--scott
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