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The clapboard also gives an indication of the basic lighting conditions the scene is supposed to have. The 2AC can choose between "interior" and "exterior", and "day" and "night". This is the only part of the clapboard which doesn't actually indicate the conditions ''as they are'', but actually the conditions ''as they're supposed to be'' in the final product. Thus, a shot filmed on an exterior location at noon could be marked with "EXT/NIGHT", if the director of photography is shooting "day for night". | The clapboard also gives an indication of the basic lighting conditions the scene is supposed to have. The 2AC can choose between "interior" and "exterior", and "day" and "night". This is the only part of the clapboard which doesn't actually indicate the conditions ''as they are'', but actually the conditions ''as they're supposed to be'' in the final product. Thus, a shot filmed on an exterior location at noon could be marked with "EXT/NIGHT", if the director of photography is shooting "day for night". | ||
If the scene being shot is one shot by, or having later composition by, the [[visual effect]]s department, the clapper will be given a code corresponding to a schedule worked out by the [[production supervisor]] or her staff. In this way, the visual effects department can better keep track of what [[special effect]] shot goes with which [[principal photography]] shot. | |||
==Who uses the information== | ==Who uses the information== | ||
Although clapper info is used by a variety of post production departments, it's most important to the three people whose job it is to maintain the information the clappers contain. | Although clapper info is used by a variety of post production departments, it's most important to the three people whose job it is to maintain the information the clappers contain. | ||
The | The information begins with the writer, whose scripts designate scene numbers. These scene numbers are usually not tampered with, even if certain scenes are cut from the script. Scene numbers that are cut are merely omitted from the later flow of information, without causing a subsequent renumbering of the remaining scenes. | ||
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 cameraman]]. If there are two assistants listed in the credits, the assistant in charge of actually writing the information on the slate will usually be the second one listed — 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 organize all incoming foootage for the [[editor]]. For reasons of efficiency, however, almost all members of the post will organize their planning around the assistant editor's organizational scheme, which in turn is based on the scene number the writer provided in pre-production and the clapper loader gave in production. | |||
Some of the key post-production personnel who depend on the organization the clapperboard naturally brings are the [[sound designer|sound design]] team, the [[visual effect]]s department, and the [[colourist]]. | |||
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