A friend of mine showed this to me today, and I had to share.  Next time you find yourself on a shoot without a clapperboard, check out this great $10 app called MovieSlate from PureBlend Software that combines a clapperboard and shot log into one slick interface.

Movie★Slate is a convenient, all-in-one digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and shot notepad— designed for use in film, television, documentaries, music videos, and interviews. This professional production tool is the easy way to log footage and take notes as you shoot— saving you valuable time later when capturing and editing footage. At a mere fraction of a bulky digital clapperboard’s cost, you’ll be saving money too.

In addition to simply tracking shots and claps, it merges in several notes features and a neat digital timecode that you can customize to run at whatever framerate you plan to work at (24, 29.97, and several others).  The timecode continues running even when the app does not, and can export all of the data in several formats (including Final Cut XML format).

Now just imagine running all of that on an iPad, up against the physical ones with fewer features that run over $50.

Movie★Slate (Clapperboard & Shot Log) for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store Movie?Slate (Clapperboard & Shot Log)