Toktorill
09-23-2007, 02:41 PM
Hey there haunters! During our 2006 haunt we experimented with different ways to move patrons from scene to scene. One of the most effective: making them climb in through a broken window!
After the patrons walked through a third of the haunt, they came along a "wall" that was decorated with a door scene setter and burlap, to look like the side of a mansion. As the door was obviously too haunted to go in, the tour guide explained, they would have to find another way!
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/Toktorill/haunt2006/window01.jpg
That "way in" turned out to be through the broken window, leading our daring explorers into the rest of the "mansion". I began this prop by drawing a window in the largest piece of card board I could get my hands on. I then cut out the glass area, leaving some pieces of the frame intact. I taped on several sections of broken glass along the edges to make it look more authentic. :devil:
The glass was a rectangular piece of clear poly (the same stuff we used for the walls in the chopping room). Several layers of clear packing tape was applied in a zig-zag pattern along the center. I then used a knife to cut along the center of the tape, giving me two pieces of "glass" that were fairly rigid, due to the tape... and completely safe. Some florescent "zombie blood" was spray painted along the edges, and the scene was lit from overhead with a 2' blacklight.
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/Toktorill/haunt2006/window02.jpg
Patrons love it when you say, "Look! ZOMBIE BLOOD! Let's go in!"
After the patrons walked through a third of the haunt, they came along a "wall" that was decorated with a door scene setter and burlap, to look like the side of a mansion. As the door was obviously too haunted to go in, the tour guide explained, they would have to find another way!
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/Toktorill/haunt2006/window01.jpg
That "way in" turned out to be through the broken window, leading our daring explorers into the rest of the "mansion". I began this prop by drawing a window in the largest piece of card board I could get my hands on. I then cut out the glass area, leaving some pieces of the frame intact. I taped on several sections of broken glass along the edges to make it look more authentic. :devil:
The glass was a rectangular piece of clear poly (the same stuff we used for the walls in the chopping room). Several layers of clear packing tape was applied in a zig-zag pattern along the center. I then used a knife to cut along the center of the tape, giving me two pieces of "glass" that were fairly rigid, due to the tape... and completely safe. Some florescent "zombie blood" was spray painted along the edges, and the scene was lit from overhead with a 2' blacklight.
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/Toktorill/haunt2006/window02.jpg
Patrons love it when you say, "Look! ZOMBIE BLOOD! Let's go in!"