But the Stretch Rooms remained because they provided such a great introduction to the ride. Incidentally, except for the foyer and parts of the exit, the Stretch Rooms are the only parts of the ride that are contained within the famous Mansion facade itself. In order for the stretching effect to work — especially in Disneyland — you cannot allow the audience to see the gaps that separate the moving pieces in Disneyland, the floor; in WDW, the ceiling from the stationary piece.
This is the wood-paneled section of the gallery, with the mantle of gargoyles being the barrier that hides the gap from the moving pieces.
At no point can a guest reach out and touch a wall or a painting that appears to be stretching. The gargoyle mantle is even more critical for another reason. In order to see the stretching paintings and hear the Ghost Host , we need lights and speakers. But there is simply no place to put them in a stretching room because seeing them would destroy the effect. The speakers are hidden in the mantle itself behind fabric painted to look like wood, and they are arrayed in a complete circle to give the effect of the Ghost Host flitting around the room.
The lights are above the mantle in order to illuminate the paintings, but hidden from sight. The audio here has two jobs. It sets the stage for the story, obviously, but just as important, it provides the necessary creaks and groans to certify that you are seeing a supernatural stretching room while masking the sound of the machinery behind the walls.
There is a movie trick known as practical lighting , in which the light source illuminating an actor or set is theoretically coming from a logical light source — like a table lamp or a window — even though the cinematographer has actually lit the set with giant movie lights that are not visible on camera. In order for the paintings to appear to be stretching along with the walls, the top and the bottom of the picture frame itself must remain stationary with respect to the lower and upper bounds of the stretching.
Look closely at the frame and you can see that the top and bottom sections are actually an inch or so apart from the wall, as is the section of wallpaper directly below and above. This allows the entire stretched portrait to reappear from behind the frame boundaries. Any horizontal or pictorial pattern would destroy the effect because the audience would see the patterns revealing themselves as the ceiling moved upwards.
The ceiling is nothing more than fabric painted that will turn invisible when lit from behind. This accounts for how that hanging body suddenly comes visible. He is hanging up there the entire time, just waiting for the ceiling scrim to reach him. Oh, and the light source? Lightning flashes from windows at the top of the room, on all four sides of the body. Yet many successful haunts fill different entertainment niches to keep old customers coming back and welcome new ones.
Consider location choice, for example. Then there's the theme. Mega haunted houses, like Netherworld in Atlanta, may change their themes each year. For instance, the two attractions at Netherworld are called "Mangler" and "Carnivore" for The former is a take on cinematic horror involving crazed scientists, dentists and butchers gone awry; the latter is more fanciful, with hordes of werewolves and ghouls around every corner. Before haunt owners can start scaring customers, they have to first scare up resources.
As the popularity of Halloween has increased, so has the holiday's controversy among Christians. In an attempt to reclaim Halloween as an evangelizing tool, religious leaders developed Christian-themed "haunted houses. In , Rev. Instead of ghouls and ghosts, Satan and demons do the spooking. Penitent visitors can then learn about Christian salvation. Running a haunted house isn't a one-month-out-of-the-year dream job.
First, the house costs quite a bit of money to construct. Ricky Dick, who co-owns Pittsburgh's Castle Blood haunted attraction with his wife Karen, stresses that to manage a haunt you need two essential traits -- a love of scaring people and the discipline to do all the boring stuff required so that you can scare people.
One of the primary messages that you'll see mentioned in industry information is the importance of haunted house safety. The purpose of a well-planned haunted house is to create the illusion of danger but never actually come close to putting someone in harm's way.
Insurance, safety equipment and maximum capacity will vary, depending on the city where the haunt is located. Those figures could influence where you can rent or purchase space. Injury-related lawsuits could also shut down an attraction. Netherworld Haunted House in Atlanta has 32 cameras installed along their mazes and prints a disclaimer on the back of admission tickets to help protect the attraction from litigation.
It isn't uncommon for haunted attraction Web sites or disclaimers to include specific warnings for women who are pregnant and people with heart conditions.
After you know the regulations you're working with, let's say you find a warehouse you think will make a perfect haunted space. Before you spray a single drop of fake blood , check out the facility's sprinkler system and fire safety features.
Haunt World Magazine recommends being generous when applying flame retardants to materials. If something catches fire in a tightly designed space like a haunted house, disaster could strike. In the case of emergency exits, find where the doors and windows are and if there are any pillars or obstacles blocking those exits.
The walls of a haunt maze must be constructed 4 to 5 feet 1. Of course fire isn't the only potential hazard. Haunted attractions have all sorts of props and hardware that could injure customers and employees. Most of the time, haunted house mazes are dark and foggy, increasing the chances for a stumble. Check along maze walls for any nails or screws that could be poking through [source: Kirchner ]. Remove loose cords from the path and ensure maze walls are reinforced and won't break or fall over if people lean on them [source: Kirchner ].
Props must also pose no danger. Take, for instance, those chain saws that crazed lunatics in many a haunted house wield at guests. Although it makes a bone-chilling noise, there's no blade. Faux fog and compressed air help create a frightening atmosphere but can also raise carbon monoxide levels in the enclosed spaces. As a result, managers must be sure that air is properly filtered in the attraction to keep it safe for breathing.
The haunted house season comes and goes quickly, but for a successful attraction, that means heavy traffic. If you can't move cars in and out of the lot easily, people will go somewhere else for their Halloween frights. And speaking of frights, now that safety and logistics are covered, it's time to design the haunted house. The groundwork for a frightening haunted house experience lies in design.
Most haunts are designed as mazes -- guests can find their way through, but there must be enough twists and turns so that they can't anticipate what's coming next. Throughput is essentially a haunted house's productivity standard. On high- traffic nights, managers want to move as many people as possible through the attraction in the shortest amount of time, keeping lines down and customers happy.
Throughput also helps haunt owners figure out the number of customers they need to get through each night in order to make a profit at the end of the season. For instance, to get people through an attraction in a single night, one haunt owner calculated that groups of six entering the haunt every 25 seconds would meet that goal [source: Glenn ].
If you bump the throughput much higher than 25 or 30 seconds, you risk breaking one of the cardinal rules of haunted house design: Customers must never see those people who have gone in before them. Many guests attribute the famous ghosts in the ballroom scene to a high tech special effect, such as a projection. However, long-time Mansion fans know that this scene has been around far longer than many modern video effects. The ghosts that appear and disappear in the ballroom below you are created using a projection technique known as phantasmagoria that dates back to the mids.
The ghostly figures that you see in the Haunted Mansion ballroom are real animatronics that are just below your doom buggy in a separate room. There are huge panes of glass set at an angle in the ballroom that are invisible to the viewer, until the figures opposite them are lit. The glass then reflects the ghostly characters, giving the impression of a room full of figures that appear and disappear. I'm a full time freelance writer and former resident of Orlando, Florida. During my time at Disney I worked in all four theme parks at least once.
Today I enjoy traveling around the country, experiencing and writing about all manner of destinations, both theme parks and beyond. I may not have ever worked for Disney, but I do know how scrims work. For someone who works worked? At no point in the Haunted Mansion do they use scrims, except in the ceiling of the stretching room. It is either fully invisible or fully opaque. In other words, you can either see everything through it or you can nothing through it.
Let's take each of your "points" one at a time. Granted, if part of the scrim is painted, that part will still be able to reflect light when the back of the scrim is lit, but the part that is "see through" can only ever be fully opaque or fully transparent. The portraits in the hall of portraits use a pigment that reacts to a certain frequency of light.
When the lightning flashes it causes that pigment to glow in reaction to the light. Plus, the paintings would obscure anything you might see from behind. You can see the lightning flashes on the wall around the portrait which clearly means it is coming from the front.
The endless hallway does not have a scrim because it does not need one. The hallway is long enough to really not even need the mirror.
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