$1 Clapboard

If you need a way to know what takes and scenes work when you are editing, you need a clapboard.  A clapboard helps in the editing room a lot by taking time off editing.  Most the time, proffesional clapboards cost in the $100+ range.  This is a simple, cheap, and effective clapboard that can help out a lot with your next production.

Step 1: Materials

What's Needed:
Small Dry-Erase Board ( I got mine at Dollar Tree)
Dry Erase Marker (mine came with the board)
Permanent Marker

Step 2: About the Board

My board was only a dollar, so of course it wasn't going to be of great quality.  But it is of good quality.  It is made of cardboard and has magnetic strips so it can hang in a locker.  It also comes with a dry-erase marker.  But that too, is not of great quality.  So do not keep dry-erase writing on it too long or else it might become permanent.

Step 3: Write

I used an image of a clapboard fom online to know what to write and where to write the words.  I have provided that image for you guys so you don't have to look.  I wrote what it said in permanent marker on the dry-erase board.  I didn't need where it said director (since I am always the director) or where it said camera.  I also didn't need where it said date, but I thought it could be helpful.  For the date I put two slashes with a space in between each one and after the second slash I put "20" since I probably won't be alive, filming and/or using this in 2100+.  This does not apply to you if you live in the 2100s, 2200s, etc.

Step 4: Helpful Advice

If you get a piece of paper and write down which takes worked in which scenes, it can help a lot in post.  You can delete the takes that didn't work on your computer (to save camera battery power on set).

Step 5: That Is It

That is all you need to do.  Let me know what you think of this in the comments.
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