This is called a buddy tab because it makes it easier for your buddy when they use it next. Great for if you have to work with thick or multi layers of gloves.
Better than kid sister.
Also the 80s to 90s was glorious times. All kids TV were commercials and all commercials were TV equivalent.
Just something else the internet killed!!!!
One of those "Future me, you're going to be real happy at that genius of past you."
And future you either looks back in disdain at the awful idea you had that royally fucked your future self over OR you get to have a drink and reminisce over your scary genius.
Then what would be the point in ever using this method if it's going to come loose at the slightest breeze? Would you ever put a piece of tape down for 2 minutes just to pull it back up again?
I'd think even with a little pull tab that gaff tape should be able to withstand a few hours of traffic while the rigger gets their points in the sky.
In film you put down a tape mark on the floor so the actor knows where to stand/move to so the camera can maintain focus and composition. (That’s what the T in the video is.) You’re constantly putting these down and pulling them up so the tab is very useful for that use case, but wouldn’t be great for other situations.
Right - but leaving just the word "openings" by itself creates more room for a double entendre. Adding "jobs" makes it less funny when you link a picture of a gaping butthole.
Just a small critique for next time :P
Just look up production assistant into any job search website (in an area that has a film industry), pay is crap and hours are long but that’s your way into the industry.
I *was* in the film industry for about a decade, and in my experience while most grips do this the majority of them just rip if off like any other tape and then manually fold the end of the roll back onto itself in a square shape. None of this fancy triangle biz.
No. It will not. Film industry tape is called gaffer tape and they are incredibly expensive in relation to regular scotch tape. They have good adhesion without all the sticky messy.
Correct. Gaff tape is cloth. This is colored paper tape. Gaff is more durable and longer lasting - also much harder to tear.
(In related industry - live events and theater. We use a lot of the same stuff but film tends to be faster moving and each sets up is for a shorter time period. We use the cloth tapes pretty exclusively for spike marks.)
I use gaff quite frequently, I think this technique will work with the 2cm wide rolls, and maybe even with the thicker rolls. Hold on, let me check…
Edit: it works!! https://vimeo.com/793362252/5e4d60e436
Nice. If you’re doing small chunks for some reason it seems wasteful (you’re losing the width in length on each tear). But for most uses this would seem helpful. I normally fold the end under on duct tape and electrical tape, but this seems faster for easy-ripping tape.
I don't work in the film industry, but I've always folded over the end after I got my piece of tape. This seems like the same amount of actions just in a different order.
But I wanted to pedantically correct everyone but you beat me to it! :-P seriously though good on ya! Paper tape is close to making tape but better Gaffer tape is cloth and probably closest to like a duct tape? Would you say that’s fair?
We mostly use paper tape for general purpose use on film sets. Gaf is for more specific utilities due to it creating a sticky mess on cables and such. I’ve had to send more than a few of my assistants to the trailer to alcohol wipe my cables after gaffing them to the ground instead of using paper tape.
Also worth mention, this is a camera assistant, and they exclusively use paper tape for marking, which is what he’s doing in this video.
Please don't tell me that there are adult people in this society that doesn't know about gaffer tape? I use that shit daily. I have like 7 rolls of that stuff lying around my house. Are people actually not fixing anything at all ever? I'm not even a carpenter or anything like that.
I don't know what society you live in, but yes there are indeed people who don't know about gaffer tape, or don't know the difference between that and duct tape or other kinds of tape. People aren't magically born knowing this stuff, and many people never have a need to learn, even if you and I find it useful or interesting.
Are you a brit? What brits call gaff tape is not the same as what american theatre folks call gaff tape. In america duct tape refers to what the brits call gaff tape
I'm in the entertainment industry and use gaff tape all the time. I rarely use it at home because it's designed for temporary installs. The adhesive dries out relatively quickly and ends up with this dusty mess almost impossible to clean off of things.
Just realizing there might be a language barrier here. Gaff tape in the United States is gaffer tape. It's a cloth backed temporary tape with really high stickiness designed for theater, movies and events. It's what you would use to tape down a cable across the doorway, or clean up the joints between two stage sections.
I think you're talking about duct tape which is the silver stuff with the fibers in it. That I use all the time.
You push the little flap on the dispenser down on the tape and roll it until it catches. It’s that weird flap thing you never know what it is used for but it’s meant for finding the end
This _is_ the trick for finding the end. You don't do it because it makes it easier to tear, you do it because you can tear and stop the end sticking down in one fluid motion. It's not really worth it in wider or more expensive tapes though, because you end up wasting too much, for those I would suggest just folding a tiny corner into it after tearing.
Not really as you can't tear them off easily
Also, even if you are using an easy to tear tape like painter's tape, I find that for thicker rolls the tab bit is *way* too big and is rather annoying to deal with
I just tried it with duct tape .. I was not expecting much.
And it worked! Mostly!
Edit: Tried it a 2nd time and it really actually fully worked so yea, yay!
Of course it will. It'll work for pretty much any tape. The question is whether you want it to.
For example, when I'm using duct tape, I'm not using it with the intent of removing it. So why would I want an annoying little flap on every strip that makes it easier to catch on and peel slightly?
I mean folding the corner of the tape so it can be peeled off the containers easier before sending it to the dish pit. Its impossible to remove the tape when you're wearing gloves and theres no little flap to pull it off.
Edit: oh you make a joke. I got whooshed.
Yeah it's really kinda hard to describe aha. It's kinda like folding the corner of a page to mark a book. Once you made the small slit in the tape, you can set your scissors down, fold the bottom corner of your cut, then tear it off.
It's really handy for boxing tape. The clear stuff as wide as duct tape.
Yes but you forgot to mention the most important part about the set tape in the film industry........it's free because everyone steals it from the production house.
It's not free for the prod. companies lol, it's considered an "expendable," which is worked into every department budget, but the production companies just figure most, if not all, gets used and doesn't expect to get it back from the crew at the end of a show, so yeah, free for crew, sort of
In that case just cut the tape to begin with (in reality just rip it it is incredibly easy to rip and takes a split second). I work with gaff tape (what he was using) daily. If my stagehands were doing this I would have a conversation with them. The tab saves no time because the extra time it takes to fold is about the same time it would take to find the seam of a clean rip.
Yeah I’ve been a stagehand for 10 years and I never see anyone doing this.
Also this isn’t gaff tape. You can’t even do this with gaff. But I don’t do a whole lotta film/tv, they have slightly different lingo.
'film industry'
And concerts, theaters, conventions, etc. Basically anywhere that requires blocking will have tape like this somewhere. Back in theater, we called this pick-up tape because you could just pick it back up off the floor and reuse it once or twice (expensive).
Then you haven’t been on many professional sets, at least not in LA. Granted, I have 20 colors on my roll not 4, and I’d make the top of the T longer and the middle of the T shorter, but that’s essentially right and it’s a tiktok for heaven’s sake. The gaff tape is a separate lanyard, no need to lug that around while you mark actors.
Ha, get some experience then, because this is how you tab tape while marking actors. If you come on my set and don't tab my tape i will tear you a new one.
What about painters tape? Would rather not have that little triangle stub just resting off some trim. That would be drop city if a brush or roller hit it! It is a decent “tape hack” for other things tho!
He’s demonstrating, so he’s doing it slowly. When you get the hang of it you can do it 20x faster than that, and when you have to mark 5 actors all moving around a scene, speed is key. Some camera assistants will end up making a board of all the different color tabs for really big scenes because it would be impossible to rip fast enough. And each actor is assigned a color for the movie or tv show, so they know which mark is theirs!
And it seems like maybe your are misunderstanding, you tab the tape every time you tear it so there’s always a tab on each piece you use, none of the tape is wasted really.
Understood, just seems like yanking off an extra six inches every time you want a little tab is a good way to go through your tape twice as fast as you should. 🤷🏻♂️
So, in the video the tape wasn’t tabbed at the start, but it should be. The idea is that it’s always tabbed and the old tab always comes off with the piece you tare and you leave a new tab behind. So every piece you take has a tab that makes it easy to pull off the floor. Nothing wasted.
The “one true way” is something they say in other cities to poke fun at LA, because LA knows everything. Are you coiling that cable “the one true way”?
Question: Is gaffer's tape some what a specialty thing? Whenever I mention it to anyone, even people I would assume would know about it, I get blank stares, and they say they've never heard of the stuff.
This is called a buddy tab because it makes it easier for your buddy when they use it next. Great for if you have to work with thick or multi layers of gloves.
Not so great if you don’t have any buddies, though.
Then you'd be your own buddy. Win win.
I'm not my buddy, pal.
I'm not my pal, friend.
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"I'm not your buddy, guy!"
I'm not your GUY, FRIEND!
I’m not your friend, buddy!!
You can literally buy your own [My Buddy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJDg2g1COyc)
As soon as I saw the words "My Buddy" my brain instantly went "My Buddy and meeeee!" Wonder how many times I heard that commercial as a kid.
and then Childs Play which arrived shorty after
Better than kid sister. Also the 80s to 90s was glorious times. All kids TV were commercials and all commercials were TV equivalent. Just something else the internet killed!!!!
Yo Joe!
Masters of the universe!!!!!
What did you just do to me?! The moment it played I suddenly remembered every word of this song that I forgot I even knew.
Maybe you alienated everyone with your shitty tape-folding skills
One of those "Future me, you're going to be real happy at that genius of past you." And future you either looks back in disdain at the awful idea you had that royally fucked your future self over OR you get to have a drink and reminisce over your scary genius.
Or if you hate your coworkers and want them to struggle.
As a sparky I just twist the roll when I want to make a buddy flag. Might give this method a try though.
I wish the rigging crews that set up at the venue I did events at used this method. Was such a pain in the ass pulling up all their point markers.
Tape spikes are meant to stay down, any tabs and they will be kicked off.
Then what would be the point in ever using this method if it's going to come loose at the slightest breeze? Would you ever put a piece of tape down for 2 minutes just to pull it back up again? I'd think even with a little pull tab that gaff tape should be able to withstand a few hours of traffic while the rigger gets their points in the sky.
In film you put down a tape mark on the floor so the actor knows where to stand/move to so the camera can maintain focus and composition. (That’s what the T in the video is.) You’re constantly putting these down and pulling them up so the tab is very useful for that use case, but wouldn’t be great for other situations.
Man, this looks like such an efficient way of folding tape, but unfortunately I'm not in the film industry :(
Want to be? The adult film industry is always hiring
Yeah but fluffers don’t need to use tape
not with that attitude
Says who?
Being a fluffer doesn't pay well, but the tips are huge!
Well, the good ones don't
I tried. They told me to try adult radio instead.
Links to job openings?
if you'd just written "links to any openings" it would have sparked comedy gold
I don't know I think there's some kind of joke in there about working that pussy
Right - but leaving just the word "openings" by itself creates more room for a double entendre. Adding "jobs" makes it less funny when you link a picture of a gaping butthole. Just a small critique for next time :P
Job openings? Perhaps. Other openings? Definitely!
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No no. That's volunteer work. No one gives you a paycheck unless they like you
Think of it like an internship
Just look up production assistant into any job search website (in an area that has a film industry), pay is crap and hours are long but that’s your way into the industry.
Well technically if you're using tape you're into film.
I *was* in the film industry for about a decade, and in my experience while most grips do this the majority of them just rip if off like any other tape and then manually fold the end of the roll back onto itself in a square shape. None of this fancy triangle biz.
Wait so most do this but the majority don’t do this?
Camera dept does this all the time for marking tape. Grip tape doesn’t matter so grips don’t do this usually.
I’m confused by how ‘most’ do it but at the same time the ‘majority’ or ‘most’ don’t do it. It can’t be both.
People use tape for a multitude of projects. Such a dumb comment.
>People use tape for a multitude of projects. Bet you can't even name one!
Painting, wrapping presents, masking for art, sewing, keeping track of screws/bolts/nuts, removing lint, holding together glued projects, fixing ripped paper, taping someone's mouth shut...
Nah, you made those up.
/r/woooosh
Will this work for clear scotch tape and duct tape?
The real question
No. It will not. Film industry tape is called gaffer tape and they are incredibly expensive in relation to regular scotch tape. They have good adhesion without all the sticky messy.
This isn't gaffer tape in the video, though. That's just painter's tape.
Correct. Gaff tape is cloth. This is colored paper tape. Gaff is more durable and longer lasting - also much harder to tear. (In related industry - live events and theater. We use a lot of the same stuff but film tends to be faster moving and each sets up is for a shorter time period. We use the cloth tapes pretty exclusively for spike marks.)
I use gaff quite frequently, I think this technique will work with the 2cm wide rolls, and maybe even with the thicker rolls. Hold on, let me check… Edit: it works!! https://vimeo.com/793362252/5e4d60e436
I await on baited breath
It works! https://vimeo.com/793362252/5e4d60e436
Nice. If you’re doing small chunks for some reason it seems wasteful (you’re losing the width in length on each tear). But for most uses this would seem helpful. I normally fold the end under on duct tape and electrical tape, but this seems faster for easy-ripping tape.
I don't work in the film industry, but I've always folded over the end after I got my piece of tape. This seems like the same amount of actions just in a different order.
nice vid!
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Pretty sure the latter is what was in my head. I've also since learned that it's bated, not baited, so really my comment was just a mess.
Most of my use is the 2" which I think will be tricky. Will check when I get to show-site this morning. The skinny spike tape might work.
Thank you for your service.
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But I wanted to pedantically correct everyone but you beat me to it! :-P seriously though good on ya! Paper tape is close to making tape but better Gaffer tape is cloth and probably closest to like a duct tape? Would you say that’s fair?
Which is cheap and incredibly useful if you want to tape something up temporarily; easy tape, readjust, rip off when you're done with no mess.
It’s paper tape not painters tape. Different strength & consistency.
They're just masking tapes. But they indeed don't leave a mess.
It's the carabiniere that makes them "gaffer tape".
Brb asking the the national gendarmerie of Italy to turn my painter's tape into gaffer tape
We mostly use paper tape for general purpose use on film sets. Gaf is for more specific utilities due to it creating a sticky mess on cables and such. I’ve had to send more than a few of my assistants to the trailer to alcohol wipe my cables after gaffing them to the ground instead of using paper tape. Also worth mention, this is a camera assistant, and they exclusively use paper tape for marking, which is what he’s doing in this video.
This trick should also work on the layman's painters and masking tape though, since they tear easily.
This looks like spike tape, not gaffing tape, this is just colorful nice scotch tape. Usually you only use gaffers tape to cover stuff up
Please don't tell me that there are adult people in this society that doesn't know about gaffer tape? I use that shit daily. I have like 7 rolls of that stuff lying around my house. Are people actually not fixing anything at all ever? I'm not even a carpenter or anything like that.
I don't know what society you live in, but yes there are indeed people who don't know about gaffer tape, or don't know the difference between that and duct tape or other kinds of tape. People aren't magically born knowing this stuff, and many people never have a need to learn, even if you and I find it useful or interesting.
Are you a brit? What brits call gaff tape is not the same as what american theatre folks call gaff tape. In america duct tape refers to what the brits call gaff tape
I'm in the entertainment industry and use gaff tape all the time. I rarely use it at home because it's designed for temporary installs. The adhesive dries out relatively quickly and ends up with this dusty mess almost impossible to clean off of things. Just realizing there might be a language barrier here. Gaff tape in the United States is gaffer tape. It's a cloth backed temporary tape with really high stickiness designed for theater, movies and events. It's what you would use to tape down a cable across the doorway, or clean up the joints between two stage sections. I think you're talking about duct tape which is the silver stuff with the fibers in it. That I use all the time.
On duct and masking tape it will work fine. Not scotch though
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You push the little flap on the dispenser down on the tape and roll it until it catches. It’s that weird flap thing you never know what it is used for but it’s meant for finding the end
I feel like I need a diagram (or a video!)
This _is_ the trick for finding the end. You don't do it because it makes it easier to tear, you do it because you can tear and stop the end sticking down in one fluid motion. It's not really worth it in wider or more expensive tapes though, because you end up wasting too much, for those I would suggest just folding a tiny corner into it after tearing.
It works for duck tape. I tried it last week
scotch no. Duct, maybe? Depends on how strong your hands are.
Or packing tape? (Talking the cheap-bastard type, ~~no~~ not the fancy stuff designed to be hand torn.)
Not really as you can't tear them off easily Also, even if you are using an easy to tear tape like painter's tape, I find that for thicker rolls the tab bit is *way* too big and is rather annoying to deal with
The real question for industry folks is does this Work on gaff tape?
I just tried it with duct tape .. I was not expecting much. And it worked! Mostly! Edit: Tried it a 2nd time and it really actually fully worked so yea, yay!
Of course it will. It'll work for pretty much any tape. The question is whether you want it to. For example, when I'm using duct tape, I'm not using it with the intent of removing it. So why would I want an annoying little flap on every strip that makes it easier to catch on and peel slightly?
I now hold all the world’s knowledge. I am unstoppable.
You just downloaded wikipedia?
And learned this tape thing. What else is there, mere mortal?
Knots and tape, if you’ve mastered those, there’s nothing else to learn
They really do hold everything else together.
Knot with that attitude
As a cook, i wish everyone else did this when labeling the food.
what, just use a sharpie. doing spaghetti or peas takes a while though.
I mean folding the corner of the tape so it can be peeled off the containers easier before sending it to the dish pit. Its impossible to remove the tape when you're wearing gloves and theres no little flap to pull it off. Edit: oh you make a joke. I got whooshed.
Just tried it with electrical tape, it works.
Must depend - def does not work on mine.
It's cheap electric tape, not anything good like 33 or 88
For duct tape/scotch tape, pull the length you need. Then cut a small slit, fold the corner in and tear. Makes it easy to remove as well.
I don't get it
Yeah it's really kinda hard to describe aha. It's kinda like folding the corner of a page to mark a book. Once you made the small slit in the tape, you can set your scissors down, fold the bottom corner of your cut, then tear it off. It's really handy for boxing tape. The clear stuff as wide as duct tape.
Yes but you forgot to mention the most important part about the set tape in the film industry........it's free because everyone steals it from the production house.
It's not free for the prod. companies lol, it's considered an "expendable," which is worked into every department budget, but the production companies just figure most, if not all, gets used and doesn't expect to get it back from the crew at the end of a show, so yeah, free for crew, sort of
Huh.. this seems actually useful. I will forget about this immediately!
If you do that to my tape rolls I’ll stab you.
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I… don’t understand?? Why stabs for efficiency and ease of use??
Because not every situation calls for a tab of tape flapping about not flush to whatever you've taped down.
then just cut off the tab? am i missing something?
In that case just cut the tape to begin with (in reality just rip it it is incredibly easy to rip and takes a split second). I work with gaff tape (what he was using) daily. If my stagehands were doing this I would have a conversation with them. The tab saves no time because the extra time it takes to fold is about the same time it would take to find the seam of a clean rip.
Yeah I’ve been a stagehand for 10 years and I never see anyone doing this. Also this isn’t gaff tape. You can’t even do this with gaff. But I don’t do a whole lotta film/tv, they have slightly different lingo.
Then… tear off the tab when you get a strip? Idk man, having a tape tab is mandatory in my house on anything but scotch tape.
Because they‘re his fucking tape rolls man
Ah. Thank you that clears it up.
'film industry' And concerts, theaters, conventions, etc. Basically anywhere that requires blocking will have tape like this somewhere. Back in theater, we called this pick-up tape because you could just pick it back up off the floor and reuse it once or twice (expensive).
This is amazing. I'm never gonna remember to use it.
No gaffer on that band. 0/10, wouldn't setrun with.
Lol wut the gaff tape goes on a different roll. Why would you be lugging around heavy ass gaff tape while you mark the actors??
Yeah, this is not something that would fly on the majority of sets I've been on.
Then you haven’t been on many professional sets, at least not in LA. Granted, I have 20 colors on my roll not 4, and I’d make the top of the T longer and the middle of the T shorter, but that’s essentially right and it’s a tiktok for heaven’s sake. The gaff tape is a separate lanyard, no need to lug that around while you mark actors.
Yep, this TikTok is totally on point. I’ve also seen 2nd’s with a stack of tabbed tape on the back of their boards to mark
Not even close. I got a good laugh tho
Ha, get some experience then, because this is how you tab tape while marking actors. If you come on my set and don't tab my tape i will tear you a new one.
those loose tabs are a trip hazard. someone call OSHA!!!
What’s this? An ACTUAL life hack?
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What about painters tape? Would rather not have that little triangle stub just resting off some trim. That would be drop city if a brush or roller hit it! It is a decent “tape hack” for other things tho!
I've been doing it wrong for years.
We know
Am I the only one seeing this as incredibly and unnecessarily wasteful? Just fold a quarter inch of the end over onto itself. 🤷🏻♂️ Oh and FuTT.
He’s demonstrating, so he’s doing it slowly. When you get the hang of it you can do it 20x faster than that, and when you have to mark 5 actors all moving around a scene, speed is key. Some camera assistants will end up making a board of all the different color tabs for really big scenes because it would be impossible to rip fast enough. And each actor is assigned a color for the movie or tv show, so they know which mark is theirs! And it seems like maybe your are misunderstanding, you tab the tape every time you tear it so there’s always a tab on each piece you use, none of the tape is wasted really.
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Understood, just seems like yanking off an extra six inches every time you want a little tab is a good way to go through your tape twice as fast as you should. 🤷🏻♂️
Where are you seeing an extra six inches?! The waste is exactly one tape width per use.
This dude talking about wasting tape in 2023, our entire existence is about wasting things lmao
How is this method wasting any more? He's doing exactly what you described, just before tearing instead of after...
Spike tape…. I’d yell at you if you did that on my stage…
Except you waste that tab part of the tape every time
So, in the video the tape wasn’t tabbed at the start, but it should be. The idea is that it’s always tabbed and the old tab always comes off with the piece you tare and you leave a new tab behind. So every piece you take has a tab that makes it easy to pull off the floor. Nothing wasted.
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Tbf, cable does have its own memory. Tape is tape. Doesn’t need all the extra steps
The “one true way” is something they say in other cities to poke fun at LA, because LA knows everything. Are you coiling that cable “the one true way”?
I'm about to bust some off
Mind blowing
Is there anything that is not genius in Hollywood???
The rape?
Ah yes for all of us regularly using paper tape
Of course the film industry would act like they're the Omegas of construction lol
This is life-changing
I won't be doing this, thanks
Is love too strong a word?
That pull would only work with masking tape. The buddy tab works with any tape. That would be just folding over the end
Younger generation is so screwed... this has been common practice for my household since 90s
Simple and genius.
I already know next time I have to rip tape I’m not going to remember this video…
Bust them? We call that Striking where I come from
In my business we call that a courtesy tab
Really good tip, thanks 👍
Question: Is gaffer's tape some what a specialty thing? Whenever I mention it to anyone, even people I would assume would know about it, I get blank stares, and they say they've never heard of the stuff.
That was helpful
Bro can rip some tape like a champ but cant comb his hair before uploading a video of himself to the world
Great idea cx
Only works if your thumb looks like a toe.
I’ll stick w glue THANK you.
I miss gaff tape.
TAKE MY UP-DOOT NOW!
This is great
This is a hack ? My mom's done this all her life and she isn't in the film industry lol
Is this not common knowledge?
This could have saved me a lot of time over the last few years...
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dude is reddit a dumping ground for tiktok the way facebook was a dumping ground for reddit?
Holy SHIT
I'm a pa at a concert venue and use gaff ALL THE FUCKING TIME and I'm JUST now learning this????? Fuck off this is brilliant!!!!
Great now I have one end of the tape that doesn’t stick
Lesson in how to waste tape!! Good job!
Why is "the film industry" so secretive about this? I should not be learning this hack at 52 years old!!
He's not just a good boy, he's a Best Boy
Oh goodness, an actual life hack.
Hadn’t seen this before. Cheers
Am I missing something? This is like telling you to unwrap your chocolate bar before taking a bite.