BP Screen

Harkness Translite Grey 65 Projection Screen measuring 14.00m across with a 7.50m drop

These instructions were written by Tim Palmer, production manager at Scottish Opera, for folding the BP screen for Ballet Showcase 2012

• To Fold the Screen:
• You can fold a plastic Cyc like a normal cloth.
• Bottom to top, bottom to top etc and the fold each side into the middle.
• However unless the stage is completely clean, it will pick up all sorts of dirt and debris.
• So we fold our Plastic Cyc like this.
• We store all our cloths in ‘flight cases’
• Estimate the width of your flight case. (or whatever you’re using for storage)
• Fly the Cyc in about the width of your case, lay it on the stage good side up.
• Then keeping this section flat on the stage, drop it in another ‘width’ but lay this folded over, good side to good side.
• Keeping this ‘two fold’ flat, drop in another chunk and lay this folded over, back to back
• Do it again -and again – and again – until you have concertinaed the whole thing.
• We then concertina the folded Cyc across stage to the P.S. end. Again having estimated the size of case it’s going into.
• Then place it delicately into our flight case.