The Game (1997) - Production Used Clapperboard

 Movie: The Game (1997)

Category: Production Material

Celebrity: David Fincher / Harris Savides

Description:

A production-used clapperboard from the production of David Fincher's thriller film The Game (1997) . The cinematography, Harris Savides , and his crew used their clapperboard to synchronize sound and keep track of the various takes of the multiple shots they filmed.

The clapperboard consists of an acrylic plate with a wooden clapperstick affixed to the top. Used by the ‘A’ camera unit during filming, the production title and the names of the director David Fincher and cinematographer Harris Savides are all engraved on the front in red, and is dated ‘11.2.96’. Black marker has been used to fill in the roll (357), scene ("105J") and take ("4") fields. 

The clapperboard is in good overall condition with some signs of age and wear from production, including minor scuffs to the wood, as well as fading and scratching to the marker writing.

The Game was Fincher´s third feature film shot in collaboration with the late cinematographer Harris Savides, was released in 1997, right on the cusp of a digital revolution that would irrevocably after the ways films are made, and watched, in the two decades since. 

While The Game features its fair share of digital visual effects, its production an exhibition were still firmly rooted in the analogue era, entirely filmed, finished and screened in cinemas on 35mm film. And one of the key challenges that faced Fincher, as it did all other filmmakers in this era, was the film´s transition to home video.

Fincher and Savides composed The Game for theatrical exhibition in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio, meaning the width of the image is just under 2.4 times larger tan the height of it. This format is often colloquially referred to in the film industry as “scope” after CinemaScope, one of the earliest interations of it.