What is this slating method? (I have not seen it before)

[imran qureshi]

I was looking at BTS pictures from a British tv show I really enjoyed (‘This Is Going To Hurt’ by Lucy Forbes) and I couldn't understand the slates.

I am used to using ‘Scene, Slate, Take’ in Britain but also am familiar with the lettering that US productions do but have not see
n this method before..

 

 

Scene is written like a fraction, the slate has a very high number on it such as 912 etc.

 

could someone please enlighten me?

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

[David Mullen ASC]

I’m guessing the fraction is the scene number over the set-up number for that scene, then the larger number is the total set-up number at that point?

But if that were true then both slates were for Scene 1 in the script… plus one slate is March 3 and the other is April 17, which has the 1/1 so my guess can’t be right…

Maybe it’s a series so the 1 above is the episode number and the number below is the scene number?

[imran qureshi]

18 minutes ago, David Mullen ASC said:

I’m guessing the fraction is the scene number over the set-up number for that scene, then the larger number is the total set-up number at that point?

But if that were true then both slates were for Scene 1 in the script… plus one slate is March 3 and the other is April 17, which has the 1/1 so my guess can’t be right…

Maybe it’s a series so the 1 above is the episode number and the number below is the scene number?

Thanks David.

 

It is a mini series with 7 eps so think that ep/scene is plausible but not sure what the slate number would be referring to ?

[David Mullen ASC]

That’s traditional in the UK, they start with “1” for the first set-up and keep going.

[Mark Dunn]

9 hours ago, David Mullen ASC said:

Maybe it’s a series so the 1 above is the episode number and the number below is the scene number?

Yes.

I've correlated stills with the call sheet on my last show and the fractions match- episode/scene number.

"Take" is just that, the take number for the setup.

("Ipcress File". The scene with the Steenbeck was cut?)

Edited June 19, 2022 by Mark Dunn

[Phil Rhodes]

Also, go Ben Spence! It must have been fifteen or twenty years ago when I was shooting a music video in central London he turned up with his Glidecam. Fantastic work and a very nice guy.

[Kyryll Sobolev]

it is episode/scene, slate, take

here's a high slate number from years ago, when i was a 2nd AC on a british show which did some shooting in toronto