[SML] Focus tape making....

[Brian Munroe]

Are we talking focus tapes as in tapes you stretch out on plaster line (or smoke pocket, whatever your zero-zero is) and center line with distance markings? Or focus tapes as in a ground cloth like covering with focus and shutter cuts marked on it?

No experience with the later.  The former is usually webbing with a zero mark or a center mark and then every foot marked out on it. It is more durable and readable if you wrap the webbing with some white gaff tape where you are marking. 

Same concept for a carpenters layout tape on tour, sometimes with different color tape to indicate different things - white for scenic pipes, yellow for electrics, etc. 

Brian Munroe

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> On Mar 14, 2017, at 10:08 PM, Jon Ares via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> My-my-my-my-focus-tape.....
> 
> (Some will get that.)
> 
> I have a swell class that would like to make focus tapes for our house
> plot. What do folks like to use for the material?
> 
> Any pointers to making them?  I personally haven't used any since ye
> olden tymes loading in tours approximately 1000 years ago....
> 
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> Jon Ares
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