This years theme for my haunt will be an asylum and I'm trying to come up with scare ideas.
This drawing done with Sketchup may help visualize it.
Out front in the yard will be my graveyard and a floating grim reaper with 3-axis skull greeting and delivering haunt rules.
The 1st room of the haunt will be setup like a waiting room (staging area to seperate guests from the cue line) to give me an opportunity to provide some backstory/foreshadowing. I'm working on developing a documentary type video about the asylum with some flashes of things to come and some Whitenoise movie type effects. The TV (only light in the room) will be on a stand that will have a drop/slide panel with a prop or actor for the first big scare.
Next room will be a security/nurses station and either an endless hall illusion or peppers ghost directly in front of the guests when passing the area (will have to see how it goes) maybe I can incorporate both effects into one.
3rd room will be a padded cell. Not sure what to do for a scare this may just be one of those rooms with a freaky actor that appears to be restrained, but isn't. Or I might do some sort of underneath a bed scare.
The next area will be the maze. In the maze I plan on having a dark caged cell dimly (3'X6' space limitations) lit from the outside where you can't see the contents of the cell and have an actor or prop jump out from the dark and bang on the cell door (it's a panel with chainlink fence)...pretty simple and some will probably expect it.
Going past the cell is a long hallway where another similar cell will be. Need to come up with a scare for here. Again due to space this will be a 4' X 4' cell viewable from two sides in the maze.
The next passage way of the cell will be a brightly lit from above hallway that will have about 30 white curtains. It's not much of a scare, but seems endless and you don't really know what to expect. At the end of the curtains it dead ends to a white wall. You feel like an idiot when you get there...lol I did at a haunt I visited last year. Exit directly left.
Next will be the bug room (area) I have 300+ cockroaches, spiders, and various other creepy critters for here. 1st cell will be directly behind them, and may be an opportunity for second scare for the actor.
Then you will be directed back by the second cell with a small partition on the way hiding my [URL="http://hauntforum.com/showthread.php?t=15272[/URL] prop. Hopefully the 2nd cell can be a diversion for the pneumatic prop.
The next room will be my dot room...self explanatory.
And then a room for one final scare (still undetermined).
So what do you think?!?
This drawing done with Sketchup may help visualize it.
Out front in the yard will be my graveyard and a floating grim reaper with 3-axis skull greeting and delivering haunt rules.
The 1st room of the haunt will be setup like a waiting room (staging area to seperate guests from the cue line) to give me an opportunity to provide some backstory/foreshadowing. I'm working on developing a documentary type video about the asylum with some flashes of things to come and some Whitenoise movie type effects. The TV (only light in the room) will be on a stand that will have a drop/slide panel with a prop or actor for the first big scare.
Next room will be a security/nurses station and either an endless hall illusion or peppers ghost directly in front of the guests when passing the area (will have to see how it goes) maybe I can incorporate both effects into one.
3rd room will be a padded cell. Not sure what to do for a scare this may just be one of those rooms with a freaky actor that appears to be restrained, but isn't. Or I might do some sort of underneath a bed scare.
The next area will be the maze. In the maze I plan on having a dark caged cell dimly (3'X6' space limitations) lit from the outside where you can't see the contents of the cell and have an actor or prop jump out from the dark and bang on the cell door (it's a panel with chainlink fence)...pretty simple and some will probably expect it.
Going past the cell is a long hallway where another similar cell will be. Need to come up with a scare for here. Again due to space this will be a 4' X 4' cell viewable from two sides in the maze.
The next passage way of the cell will be a brightly lit from above hallway that will have about 30 white curtains. It's not much of a scare, but seems endless and you don't really know what to expect. At the end of the curtains it dead ends to a white wall. You feel like an idiot when you get there...lol I did at a haunt I visited last year. Exit directly left.
Next will be the bug room (area) I have 300+ cockroaches, spiders, and various other creepy critters for here. 1st cell will be directly behind them, and may be an opportunity for second scare for the actor.
Then you will be directed back by the second cell with a small partition on the way hiding my [URL="http://hauntforum.com/showthread.php?t=15272[/URL] prop. Hopefully the 2nd cell can be a diversion for the pneumatic prop.
The next room will be my dot room...self explanatory.
And then a room for one final scare (still undetermined).
So what do you think?!?