SlateOS
A prop phone
the crew can cue.
The messages, calls and screens the script asks for — landing on the frame they're meant to, and back to the top of the take in one press.
- 00:01TEXT“i'm downstairs”
- 00:03TYPINGMaya — on
- 00:04TEXT“don't come up. he's here.”
- 00:06CALLMaya — incoming
- 00:09RESETScene 14 — top of take
Written in advance. Cued on the day.
Nothing improvised at the monitor, nothing streaming mid-shot.
Threads, contacts, call history, home screen and media, all prepared in the operator console before the day.
From a laptop on set: an incoming text, a call on the line, a typing indicator, a receipt turning to Read. It appears at once.
A scene is a named snapshot of everything. One press puts the phone back to the top of the take.
Built for a closed set.
Where the network is bad, the clock is expensive and the phone has to behave the same way on take nine as it did on take one.
SlateOS places no telephone calls and sends no messages. Everything it shows is written by the production and played back on a device the production controls. It cannot reach a third party.