I am sure what ever you come up with will be great! You always do such a great job on covering everything. I look forward to the line up! Shane and it's bring them on Ben! Shane this time.
COSTUMING (finding, design, distressing and care) and SCARE TECHNIQUE!!! ...and not just actor scare technique, but what can we as haunt owners think of, design or build to go along with this!
I'd love to see a couple of business related classes... topics like developing a business plan (tailored to haunt owners), developing a marketing plan, developing relationships and working with sponsors, etc.
I'd have to second two of Patrick's choices: Lighting and Photography. These are two subjects that novices and veterans alike can benefit from!!
Lighting: as the industry moves towards LED lighting, how to best utilize the new fixtures would be good. Also presenting different lighting techniques for different effects.
Photography: Face it, minimum of 90% of the haunts out there have photos that suck (mine included). A class on utilizing digital photography form the best effect. Photos are either too lit and they show off too much or they are too dark and show nothing!!! A class that utilizes standard digital cameras to the greatest effect would be awesome!! We should all create our own press packs with staged photos. Have you ever had a newspaper guy get a good photo??? Better photos posted on the web site and in the media can mean more customers.!!
Logistics - making sure that you have your bases covered from the short range radius from your property, to parking lots that flow, to ticket lines that work, and a queue area to operate smoothly. (one of the last things a start-up thinks about)
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