Halloween at Greenfiled Village

[caretaker]

As a member of the Motor City Haunt Club (http://www.motorcityhauntclub.com) we had the opportunity to haunt the Edisons Menlo Park Lab complex at Greenfield Village http://www.thehenryford.org We needed to come up with something that was easy to set up and take down as during the day the histroic park would be operating as normal. We came up with the idea of a Jeckyl and Hyde theme using a series of silhouettes that would sit it front of the upstairs lab windows and be backlit one at a time. I came up with the idea of using a
prop-1 with a RC-4 to control the lights and a AP-8 for sounds.  I wrote a simple program that would turn on 1 light befind each silhoutte and play a audio track and after a slight pause move to the next 'scene'. After the 4 scenes are complete it would then turn on a blue flood on the porch outside and trigger a fogger.  Thanks to Jon and the rest of the gurus here at EFX-Tek they got the Prop-1, 2-RC-4s with SSRs and 1-APC-8.  The APC-8 had plenty of volume to play out through a speaker we set up in one of the windows.  The code for the Prop-1 was just simple for-next loops for timing and of course the commands to turn on and off the RC-4 channels and play the 4 sounds on the AP-8. 


Jeff Squires aka The Caretaker
http://www.hazelhurstmanor.com