Have you seen the haunted window videos. They show putting a tv under the window and a 45degree peice of plexiglass to form a Pepper's Ghost Illusion. You could use a black sheet of cardboard with writing on the floor( instead of a tv) and a light with a dimmer to make the words fade in and out. A live actor can be behind it or even project the other ghost on a rear screan behind it. Look up Pepper's Ghost on You Tube.
Th13teen Ghosts Window
I want to make use of a large square window in my haunt. My plan is to create a window with spell writing like the glass in the movie, Thirteen Ghosts.
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Anyone have ideas on ways to light up the writing without etching glass? My current theory is to use a double pane of plexiglass....with strategically placed leds between the panes. I expect to paint or screen print the writing on the back pane.
If possible, a way to turn the writing on and off...maybe some kind of UV reactive paint? Ideas on wording, spell scripts, etc are invited.
Anyone have ideas on ways to light up the writing without etching glass? My current theory is to use a double pane of plexiglass....with strategically placed leds between the panes. I expect to paint or screen print the writing on the back pane.
If possible, a way to turn the writing on and off...maybe some kind of UV reactive paint? Ideas on wording, spell scripts, etc are invited.
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Aquayne's got the right idea. Instead of knocking yourself out trying to engineer something new, go with a pepper's ghost. You can make one that will show whatever you want without limitation, because it's been created on video and doesn't have to be produced live.
I'd been seriously thinking of doing the contained prisoner ghost thing with several "cells" using peppers ghost FX with computer monitors (my cousin can sometimes get me computer monitors for free when they upgrade the department where he works). The size of the image is of course limited so instead of being glass boxes like in 13Ghosts they'd have to be "steel" containment doors with small windows (maybe more like something the Ghostbusters would have
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Of course all my concepts of ghosts in the window were totally shaken and jerked around by the Asylum Door effect at TransWorld heheh... that's some awesome tech application...
I'd been seriously thinking of doing the contained prisoner ghost thing with several "cells" using peppers ghost FX with computer monitors (my cousin can sometimes get me computer monitors for free when they upgrade the department where he works). The size of the image is of course limited so instead of being glass boxes like in 13Ghosts they'd have to be "steel" containment doors with small windows (maybe more like something the Ghostbusters would have
)Of course all my concepts of ghosts in the window were totally shaken and jerked around by the Asylum Door effect at TransWorld heheh... that's some awesome tech application...
If your raging ghost were a recorded image, you could put the "doors" to the holding tanks flat up against the wall freeing up several cubicles worth of space, and freeing up those actors to be scary somewhere else
If you do a peppers ghost off of a video, or if you want to just go direct and use a video screen as the window,you can have the "actor" or puppet or whatever come right smack into the window -- just record it that way. You can do your own greenscreen and edit out all control rods and support equipment if you wanna go all out. Add in the background of the "cell" and your flaring & fading runes with some sort of digital editing program and get a complete finished scene (This is the direction the pro haunt stuff is going; I was amazed at the amount of video that was being used at TransWorld).
And now you have more actors to terrorize on foot with no plexiglass between.
If you do a peppers ghost off of a video, or if you want to just go direct and use a video screen as the window,you can have the "actor" or puppet or whatever come right smack into the window -- just record it that way. You can do your own greenscreen and edit out all control rods and support equipment if you wanna go all out. Add in the background of the "cell" and your flaring & fading runes with some sort of digital editing program and get a complete finished scene (This is the direction the pro haunt stuff is going; I was amazed at the amount of video that was being used at TransWorld).
And now you have more actors to terrorize on foot with no plexiglass between.
I'm in Houston, so a bit of a drive unfortunately.I second that, FG... you need to come to the Make/Take!!!
Ok, ahem... back on topic
Would be wonderful to figure out how to do something like this even on a small scale.
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