Reversible Picture: Tape Strips

Video Transcript

"Now our strips are ready to be taped together. We've turned them over, they're on the reverse side, and I'm going to be using some masking tape, and as they're lined up, I just don't want to, I just want to kind of catch the strips onto the tape. So, as they're lined up, I just press the tape down, and the good thing about masking tape is that, it's, you can easily rip it. So, once the tape is over the strips, I can just go ahead and rip it off, and go on to the next strip. And it doesn't matter now, once it's, once those two strips are attached, doesn't matter if it moves out of line. I just place it back, and then I go onto the next one. It's better to start on the ends, and work your way down, because, this way you can make sure that it's coming out nice and even, all the way across, starting from the end. You don't want to start in the middle, and realize that something that you've messed up on, as it reaches the end. So, it's good to start from one end and keep going, making sure they're nice and even. And just carefully touch the tape down, and catch the two strips as they're put together, as they're lined up. We see the tape can be trimmed, after it's placed down, so if it's hanging over the ends, you don't have to worry about it, if you don't get a nice, even tear. Also, the good thing about masking tape is that if you do want to lift it up, after you've placed it down, it usually does not take off any of the paper underneath. So, that?s a good thing about using masking tape, much better than a, clear tape. And again, it's on the back side, so you're not going to see it anyways. So don't think that it's better to use a clear tape. There are a lot of advantages in using a masking tape. Now we've completed taping the strips together. It might be easier if you have a helper, also. It's good to know that one person can be holding down the strips, the other one can be putting on the tape. But we see we've completed, this is the way it should look, just one long strip of separate pieces, with masking tape on the back. And then when we flip it over, we see that we have the image that we originally had, when it was laid out. But now we can fold it, and we can turn it into the accordion shape, put it onto the paper, and then we'll have the reversible picture, as it's folded back and forth. So, I've now shown you how to tape the individual sections together using masking tape."