film slot
What it is
One layer under the sheet, the editor, the boards and the agent
Every part of the studio writes to the same composition, the same asset library and the same record. That is what lets a note taken on a board reach the cut, and a cut explain itself back to the person who wrote the note.
film slot
Why one layer
A studio assembled from separate tools loses the argument between them
The brief lives in one place, the footage in another, the cut in a third, and nothing can say why a shot is the shot. Here the reasoning is part of the document: a composition and its understanding version together, at the same number, by construction.
- Composition
- the film itself, versioned
- Understanding
- what it is for, versioned in step
- Record
- what was thought and done, time-ordered