The following is a preliminary list of demonstrations. Please visit the schedule page to find out the day and time a class will take place.
We all know how a bad hand can ruin the look of an awesome prop! This demonstration will teach you how to make ‘em look extra creepy!! Join Dave the Dead as he shows off his skills in the art of hand making for your props! You will be using these hand casting techniques for flexwax in no time after watching this!
Join Melissa Carter as she shares some of her bloody wisdom of how to take your character up a couple of notches with make-up techniques she uses at Slaughter on Second Street!
Ivan of Ollers Oddities will show you how to use items easily found around the house or at thrift shops to haunt up your house.
Ian McAllister, tarot reader of grand scale from Witchlight Productions will lead a question and answer session about queue control and using psychics or tarot reading in your haunt.
Jeff Guilkey of the Claw Studio will share with you how to do Social Media Marketing Right for 2010. He will emphazie the importance of Social Media today and the impacts it has made in business such as Haunted Houses. He will share the Do & Don’ts of Social Media Marketing. Becasically it is like a refresher and mini guide workshop of how to use Social Media Marketing to gain better revenue for the Haunt Business.
Grinner Has been a haunted house actor for over 13 years, and has been apart of many haunts (Fright Manor, Intersanctum of Fear, The Willard Haunted Hotel, Echo Fields, Nightmare on My Street, Dream Reapers), and he would like to help other haunt actors and haunt owners how to get the best beasts out of their monsters!
Grinner will talk about techniques he has used in the haunt industry to psych up the workers. Pre-opening rituals, Proper ways of studying for Certain roles in the house, how to create your own monster. Even off season exercises to help stay in your A-game.
Also he will go over simple scare tactics that can make your haunt even scarier than before.
He will even have a portion where you can talk about some of your favorite personal scares you’ve done.
Very good class for anyone wanting to spice up their haunts.
Leonard Pickel will walk you through what you need to know as you start your first Haunted House in this informative 2 part seminar.
“Your ol’ pal Spook”, from Spookyblue.com, shares tricks and insights into making just about anything you can imagine out of paper mache. From simple -but mean- pumpkins to more complex projects like realistic paper mache skulls, “Headspook” explains how to build professional-looking props using dirt-cheap materials.