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These scene numbers are then written on the clapper, generally underneath the roll number. On ''Doctor Who'' the person who physically writes on the clapper is the [[assistant camera]]. The assistant in charge of actually writing the information on the slate will usually be the second assistant camera — that is, the "2AC". The 2AC is sometimes also called — but never credited on ''Doctor Who'' as – the "clapper loader". This title is perhaps more descriptive of the actual job. Not only does he or she "load the clapper" with information, but he or she physically loads the camera with film. Thus, he or she is the person most aware of the minutae of the "roll number" — probably the most vital piece of information on the entire clapper. Typically unheralded — and never, as of [[2010]], included in an interview on ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' — the 2AC's job is absolutely vital to almost every other department. He or she starts the flow of information to the post-production departments.

His or her counterpart in post is the [[assistant editor]], whose job it is to organise all incoming foootage for the [[editor]]. For reasons of efficiency, however, almost all members of the post will organise their planning around the assistant editor's organisational scheme, which in turn is based on the scene number the writer provided in pre-production and the clapper loader gave in production.