So after wraping up this past season, we've now begun planning and reconstructing our haunt for next year. Ive got allot of ideas we'll be using but just a couple days ago I got an idea for one of our rooms that I wanted to run by everyone. Let me know what ya think and if you have any other ideas to go along with it. Thanks ahead of time. Your thoughts are always well appriciated.
Im really trying this year to think about the type of scares in each of the rooms as to not have all the same type of scares from one room to the next. This room I wasn't thinking it to be this high impact scare, although it could be. I was kind of wanting to go for a room that would take people off gaurd, like I always try to do, but for a brief moment make them wonder what the heck just happened.
This section of the haunt is all walls constructed using pallets (theres actually tile block walls behind most of the pallet walls). This is also the Zombie section of the haunt. This room is about halfway through the zombie section, guests would enter this pitch black room. They would be walking along one edge of the room. Out of the corner of their eye (left side) for a split second the room would become dimmly lit and a zombie would be in mid air until he lands on the floor and the lights would go back out. At this point I dubbed this room the "What the F@#k Was That" room. .........OK, I was pretty syced about this idea. So at least give me that! LOL
The guests would continue walking and once again the lighting would come back on with this zombie now quite close to them in mid air (possibly delivering the grand scare for the room). And when his feet touch the floor the lights would go back out for the final time.
The idea is that I would have some type of framed box for the character to step off of. As he is in the air, therfore no weight on the subfloor of that room, a electrical contact would close, turning on the lighting until his weight is back on the floor. The character would first appear towards the back of the set. He could step to the next position with the lights still off. Leap one more time (turning the lights on briefly) close to the group for the final scare.
This is a pretty vague discription of how the room would funtion. But you probably get what Im after.
The biggest concern I have is the actor not being able to see part of the time while in the dark room and possibly getting hurt.
What are your thoughts? Has anyone done something like this before?
Thanks again!!!!
Im really trying this year to think about the type of scares in each of the rooms as to not have all the same type of scares from one room to the next. This room I wasn't thinking it to be this high impact scare, although it could be. I was kind of wanting to go for a room that would take people off gaurd, like I always try to do, but for a brief moment make them wonder what the heck just happened.
This section of the haunt is all walls constructed using pallets (theres actually tile block walls behind most of the pallet walls). This is also the Zombie section of the haunt. This room is about halfway through the zombie section, guests would enter this pitch black room. They would be walking along one edge of the room. Out of the corner of their eye (left side) for a split second the room would become dimmly lit and a zombie would be in mid air until he lands on the floor and the lights would go back out. At this point I dubbed this room the "What the F@#k Was That" room. .........OK, I was pretty syced about this idea. So at least give me that! LOL
The guests would continue walking and once again the lighting would come back on with this zombie now quite close to them in mid air (possibly delivering the grand scare for the room). And when his feet touch the floor the lights would go back out for the final time.
The idea is that I would have some type of framed box for the character to step off of. As he is in the air, therfore no weight on the subfloor of that room, a electrical contact would close, turning on the lighting until his weight is back on the floor. The character would first appear towards the back of the set. He could step to the next position with the lights still off. Leap one more time (turning the lights on briefly) close to the group for the final scare.
This is a pretty vague discription of how the room would funtion. But you probably get what Im after.
The biggest concern I have is the actor not being able to see part of the time while in the dark room and possibly getting hurt.
What are your thoughts? Has anyone done something like this before?
Thanks again!!!!
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