Broadcast Slate

[David Battistella]

Nice to include:

PROGRAM NAME
VERSION: Anamorphic/ Letterbox, Color Corrected, etc

DATE of output

PROGRAM TIMECODE START TIME
PROGRAM RUNNING TIME
TEXTLESS ELEMENTS START TIME

AUDIO TONE DB REFERENCE LEVEL
Stereo/Mono/SPLIT TRACK
DOLBY ON OR OFF

STUDIO CONTACT INFO

Peace and Love 🙂

[The Bill]

cool. thnx…

[Bob Flood]

funny

i always did them like this, as usually the clients saw the slate during screenings etc.

client
ageny
production company
title
code number/episode
length
date
format
contact info/your name

of course you would edit the info per your needs. ie if its a show there is no agency etc.

almost all networks and some ad agencys have “deliverable requirements” which dictate slate info ie segemnt starts etc, (i remember doing spots for one soap maker, who required all this specific data on the slate AS WELL AS spoken info. it had to be a certain duration, at a certain location on the tape etc etc)

one thing for sure: the money man or woman gets top billing

hth

bee eph

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bob Flood] “almost all networks and some ad agencys have “deliverable requirements” which dictate slate info ie segemnt starts etc, (i remember doing spots for one soap maker, who required all this specific data on the slate AS WELL AS spoken info. it had to be a certain duration, at a certain location on the tape etc etc)”

My favorite requirement that I have received so far is this, and I am NOT kidding.

“A 20 second countdown shall precede the start of program and cut to black at 3”

“Master Tapes shall be configured as such:
09:58:00:00 – Black
09:59:00:00 – Bars and tone set to -18dB
09:59:30:00 – Black
09:59:50:00 – Slate and Countdown.”

So I’ve been scratching my head for weeks trying to figure out how to squeeze that 20 second countdown into 10 seconds……..

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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