The following day I took on the roll of what is in my opinion one of the most difficult, important and stressful jobs on a film set...the Clapper Loader. The Clappers jobs are loading/unloading the film, slating the scenes and collecting lens etc for the camera team. The loading/unloading of the film is a job that makes you sweat. I had to load 400ft of unexposed film into the camera magazine, oh yeah and you have to load/unload it all in the dark. If a single ray of light hits the film its ruined...and film costs a lot! Breath easy I got it done with no hip-cups. Slating the scenes is a little harder than it seems. Not only do you need to write up the clapper board between takes you also need to write down the lens being used and the aperture, time the scene and calculate the amount of film ft used. The majority of this day was shot outside and it happened to be the coldest wettest day of the week. I was numb with cold but still enjoyed the day. It was good experience to shoot outside as all the other shoots were interiors. I came away from this day thinking Clapper loaders need more than one pair of hands.
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