Ok sorry not making much sense, but it is the thing that is used at the start of filming, its like a little blackboard with details on it such as scene number etc, then a small piece at the top which is clicked down.
2007-03-28 16:00:51 · 13 answers · asked by Alex 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Clapperboard
In motion picture and videotape production, a clapperboard is a device used to synchronize picture and sound; additionally the clapperboard is used to designate and mark particular scenes and takes recorded during a production. Many other names are commonly used, including clapboard, slate, slate board, sync slate, sticks, board, and marker.
When a movie's sound and picture are out of synchronization, this is known as lip flap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapperboard
2007-03-28 16:06:01 · answer #1 · answered by Joe Schmo from Kokomo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The terminology you are looking for is "clapperboard". This is used so that the sound and picture can be synchronised. When the two parts of the clapperboard are brought together at speed the sound made is a loud clack.
The sound of a film is always recorded seperately to the film being shot. After editing etc the sound on the cinema copy of the film is recorded on to the sound stripe which is usually down one side of the projected film.
When the film is projected the sound stripe is exactly 1 second ahead of the actual picture. All cinema projectors stop and start the film at the rate of 24 frames per second. If the sound head was put right next to the film gate the sound would be jerky as the film stops and starts. The sound head is below the film gate and the film is usually looped so that at the point that the film passes over the sound head the transition is a smooth continuous run thereby giving uninterrupted sound playback. In television the film advance is 25 frames per second.
Since the human eye cannot detect this rapid changing of each "still" picture the picture appears to move. Since the film actually stops 24 times a second a metal shield is put between the lamp and the film to stop the heat from the lamp burning through the film. This is done by having a spinning disc with three of these shields on. If the film didn't move at the correct speed the projected picture would appear to flicker.
2007-03-28 17:27:35 · answer #2 · answered by tunisianboy46 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clapperboard. In motion picture and videotape production, a clapperboard is a device used to synchronize picture and sound; additionally the clapperboard is used to designate and mark particular scenes and takes recorded during a production. Many other names are commonly used, including clapboard, slate, slate board, sync slate, sticks, board, and marker.
2007-03-28 16:06:49 · answer #3 · answered by Crash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clapper Board...ther used to be a programme in the afternoon hosted by Chris Kelly called Clapper Board...a poor man's version of Barry Norman.
2007-03-29 12:30:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You nearly had it. Its called a Clapper Board. If your 0ver 40 you may rememember the childrens TV programme of the same name about movies.
2007-03-28 21:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clapboard
2007-03-28 16:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by JJ M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
clapperboard..There used to be an entertainment show for kids called it as well, introduced by Chris Kelly in the seventies i think
2007-03-28 20:15:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slate
2007-03-28 16:04:00 · answer #8 · answered by curious george 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a Clapperboard.
2007-03-28 22:06:39 · answer #9 · answered by rockdodger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a joke I would say it is called the CLICKER, but in actuality it is called the CLACKER.
2007-03-28 16:04:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋