- Al Pimental
- Alex Martines
- Amber Keith
- Brendon
- Gilbert Chaves
- Sherry Van Brunt
This year we decided to expand our haunt and so we needed many more people, as you probably
can tell. Most of are friends in one sort or another from band or school. Most
of our costumes where pretty bland, except for the bride, who is wearing a real
brides gown, every one else was just a mask and dark clothes.
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This Year we get the idea that with a little more money we could build a better
structure and have many less problems. With the help from Jeff's dad we were
able to build a sturdy structure that could hold up to the rain and guests
bumping into them. The photo to the right is the entrance hallway, it has an
improved design over the first year, but is relatively the same. As with the
first year we used metal studs to make a cover for the sidewalk that runs up the
side of the house. The cover is a thick black plastic tarp that is screwed down
on the inside of the walkway. One little idea that has helped the plastic on was
a 1" square piece of cardboard with a drywall screw in the center. this allowed
us to connect the tarp the the metal beams without tearing the plastic. This
photo is the view from inside the hallway. If you look closely at the top
you can see the strips of cardboard. The Next area of the haunt was built under
a covered patio so we were lucky enough to not need to build a roof over it. For
the walls we again used the metal studs to build
framing, then used drywall as the walls. After working with the drywall and
metal studs, I would recommend that you use these to build your walls. Plywood
is also a good material but cost more than drywall. Along the sides of the house
we decided to use the old Styrofoam for walls. As you can see from the picture
this was or graffiti room, which gave a great effect under the black lights and
with the 3-D glasses. The next room was our now infamous newspaper room. As
before this room was covered in cut-up newspaper from roof to floor. This is one
of the best effects in the haunt because there is no way to get around it. The
covering in these two areas where a combination of black plastic tarp for
the graffiti room, and cardboard in the newspaper room. The photo on the
lower right is a view of the newspaper room, you can see the strobe light in the
upper left corner. For our Pokka dot room we needed it to be moveable so be
built a framework of 3/4 PVC pipe that we could move in and out of the house. We
then attached more black plastic tarp to the inside of framework, to create a
dark hallway. The last room in the haunt was again, a patio that we covered and
then hung tarps on the walls to make a dark room. This section there was no real
building since it was all one big room.
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