Construct your own Video Slate

[Jay Rodriguez]

Construct your own Video Slate

http://www.youngfilmmakersclub.com/SLATE.html

[235 Studios]

Thanks for the link Coffee, that's a great DIY project!

[j]

Anybody else make their own slate?

If so, how?

[Chenopup]

I haven't done it officially but a piece of Lucite at a sign store with this jpg cut out of sticker would work well too.

[The Noble Robot]

Step 1: go to Officemax and buy a 8x11" whiteboard and a single whiteboard marker.

Step 2: Separate into 3 columns (scene/shot/take), and label them if you want to.

BAM! Complete!

You don't need "production" "director" or other nonsense unless you're on a studio lot and you're sending your dailies to be processed along with other projects.

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

There is an app for the iPhone. Anyone try it?

[JOplinger]

http://www.filmtools.com/sb-w-bw.html

Slate...$45
Dignity on set....priceless

[j]

Bh has one for $9.

I'm just wondering if there are DIY versions out there...

[The Noble Robot]

Slate...$45
Dignity on set....priceless

Sorry, I'm not in the habit of buying my dignity. In fact, on my last film, my AD brought a standard, professional slate (which he paid less than $10 for, by the way), but I chose to use a whiteboard instead.

No one even gasped! Why? Because we're professional, too.

[MikeWilkinson]

My mom bought me this flimsy cardboard slate that was probably about $10. I took a dry erase board that I had no use for and cut and pasted it over the board and use it. The clapper works fine and the dry erase is solid.