The Dimmick Family's Halloween Haunt
Posts tagged Video Projection
Free Hallowindow iPhone “Hallowallpaper”
Aug 18th
Hallowindow has posted a link to 10 free Hallowindow iPhone “Hallowallpapers” on their Facebook page. Here is a direct link:
Haunted House, Disney-style
Dec 15th
This animatronic haunt is very cool. Definitely not “scary”, but still very cool. I might try something similar when I get more ambitious with animated props.
Halloween 2009
Nov 2nd
This year’s haunt was a real success. I focused a lot of my time and budget into the lighting and ambiance of the haunt this year. Black lights, fog and chiller, lightning, thunder, candles flickering all added to the creepy, haunted vibe. My “Scaretaker” was a real hit with the kids and adults alike. We had a steady stream of ToTs all evening and at one point there was a huge crowd of parents and kids standing in front of my house admiring all our hard work. I wish I had taken a picture of that, it was quite a sight to behold. 
Here are some miscellaneous pictures from Halloween night.
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- Drawing faces for our jack-o-lanterns.
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- Carving our jack-o-lanterns.
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- Annie loved hers until she touched it, then not so much.
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- Ben making a face like his jack-o-lantern.
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- Tyler didn’t want to have anything to do with his jack-o-lantern.
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- The finished jack-o-lanterns.
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- With the lights down and “candles” inside.
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- On the front porch.
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- They looked spooky.
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- Not sure what happened here, but I like the effect somewhat.
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The ghost video projected in our upstairs window.
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- One of the cooler shots of the night.
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- Fog machine and chiller worked okay. Hopefully I’ll figure it out better for next year.
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- The Scaretaker
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- Lighting was awesome this year.
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- Creepy walk up to the door.
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- Last pic of the jack-o-lanterns.
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- The Scaretaker
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- The Never Moor
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- The Never Moor
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- The Scaretaker
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- Just before taking everything down.
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- Just before taking everything down.
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- The kids hanging out in the graveyard.
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- Princess Leia (Annie), Jedi (me), Yoda (Tyler) and Darth Vader (Ben)
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- Annie’s first Halloween.
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- Ben smiling underneath his mask.
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- Tyler cheesing it as Yoda.
Hallowindow Projections
Oct 22nd
After experimenting with the Grim Grinning Ghosts the other day, I was curious about projections in windows. Hallowindow.com has some great animations made specifically for window displays. I got the “Eye of Fire” and “Ghosts” downloads and tried both. I first tried them in the downstairs window. The green ghosts looked way cool, however, with Trick-or-Treaters coming to the door, they’d see the projector and it would diminish the effect. The Eye of Fire looked really cool in my upstairs window. Here are some pictures of what it looked like. I tried it with a blacklight illuminating the white sheet and without. I will probably do it without the blacklight for Halloween. What do you think looks better?
Shot to show window placement on house.
Eye of Fire with blacklight underneath.
Eye of Fire without blacklight. Flash on camera went off too.
