Simple Wooden Clapper Board Slate Film Director ACTION Studio Camera Photography Video Slateboard+1 White Pen

hi I'm Tom and I'm going to teach you how to slate so the main purpose of a slate is for sinking sound so you can see visually you can see the slight clicks together and in the waveform you can see the spike so you would match those two things up in post now there's a lot of information on a slates give your role which is which card or which reveal the film you're on if your scene which is what scene in the film you're shooting take which is what you take you're using if it's MOS it means there is no sound being recorded and you would slate by putting your hand in here so that the editor can tell oh there's no sound I don't need to look forward it's not lost and everyone is kind of on the same page all at once now a lot of times there's many more shots in a scene than just one so you would start numbering you do 1a 1b 1c and just going to continue through the alphabet and you want to us