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Building the new haunt scene
Build Log Jul 7, 2013 · Louisville, KY · 2 min read

Building a new scene for the haunt this season

Every haunt season has one build that eats the summer. This year it's a new scene.

You start with an idea and a bare room. Then the walls go up, the texture goes on, the paint and the lighting follow. By October it has to feel like somewhere you should not be.

/ The Build

It's the same rhythm as every other build I've done, haunt or not: frame it, skin it, detail it, light it. The difference is the details. A scene lives or dies on them — the grit on the walls, the way the light lands, the thing you almost catch in the corner of your eye.

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/ Why You Do It

You build these scenes for the two seconds someone forgets they're in a building. That's the whole job. Make them forget.

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This year's scene is coming together — more as it goes up. The rest of the haunt gets the same treatment: every corner judged against one question. Would it work on somebody who's already scared?

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Until the next run out — work hard, play hard.

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