Difference between revisions of "Halloween 2023"

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Decoration ideas

Decorative
- Caution tape ("police line do not cross")
- Christmas corner (dark, gothic, macabre)
- Cornstalks, pumkins, and other harvest items
- Curtains black
- Curtains red velour (with gold fringe)
- Curtains red velvet (with gold rope and fringe)
- Diverse masks collected on one wall
- Gobos (spotlight stencil projects silhouette)
  - Batman symbol
  - Clouds
  - Gothic windows
  - Lightning
  - Moon + witch
  - Spiral(s) spinning (on floor)
  - Star field
- Janky scarecrows with black shredded fabric
- Large cut-outs (around doors, around projected screens, giant skeleton hand)
- Ominous lighting
- Paintings (maybe some from Jason)
- Project videos at odd Dutch angles for intentional distortion
- Windy room full of:
  - Blacklights
  - Fog/Smoke machine
  - Ghosts (fishing line hanging balloons with shredded white fabric over them)
  - Gnarly branches
  - Logs
  - Long yellow triangular flags
  - Spiderwebs
  - Stumps
  - Taxidermy
  - White sculptures
Interactive:
- Giant Jack Skellington head with hole eyes for folks to poke their heads/faces through for fun photos
- Grim Reaper costume of lots of black fabric (for tall person, maybe on stilts)
- Human car wash
- Photos with Santa (limited hours)
- White cloths over all furniture

Flyer text

International Animation Day

Saturday,

October 28

2023

Children free 12noon-6pm

Adult fundraiser 7pm-2am

$50 / adult

The Nightmare

Before Christmas

Hallowe'en Party

at

The Windsor Media Centre

664 Victoria Avenue

Funds support Windsor Media Centre overhead expenses and community projects.

Food, Drinks, & Entertainment:

DJs, Live Music, Videos, and Visual Arts.

Santa will attend.

Video projection playlists

Two YouTube playlists curated by Jason Carswell to start pulling stuff from:

◉ ANIMATION ◉
♫ Hallowe'en Shoundz ♫

Day (for kids)

All clips or short videos.

Night (for adults)

Just animated? And/or clips and/or features?

Animated

Aeon Flux (1991-1995)
Akira (1988)
Love, Death & Robots (2019+)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ghost In The Shell (1995)
The Brothers Quay
Tron (2012-2013)
WALL-E (2008)

Tim Burton's early work

IMDb: Tim Burton
Wikipedia: Tim Burton
- Wikipedia: Tim Burton filmography
  Prime selections:
  - 1982 Luau (Short)
  - 1982 Vincent (Short)
  - 1984 Frankenweenie (Short)
  - 1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  - 1988 Beetlejuice
  - 1989–1991 Beetlejuice (Animated Series)
  - 1989 Batman
  - 1990 Edward Scissorhands
  - 1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas
  - 1996 James and the Giant Peach
  - 1999 Sleepy Hollow
  - 2005 Corpse Bride
  - 2006 The Killers: Bones (Music Video)
  - 2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  - 2009 9
  - 2012 Dark Shadows
  - 2012 Frankenweenie
  - 2012 Linkin Park: Powerless (Music Video)
  - 2012 The Killers: Here with Me (Music Video)
  - 2012 Vampire's Kiss/Blood Inside (Short)
  - 2013 Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers (Short)
  - 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
  - 2020 Chelsea Grin: Blind Kings (Music Video)
  - 2022 Wednesday
- Wikipedia: Tim Burton's unrealized projects

Maybe samples from:

List of 76 dystopian science fiction movies
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
- Alien (1979+)
- Barbarella (1968)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Black Mirror (2011+)
- Brazil (1985)
- Dark City (1998)
- District 9 (2009)
- Dredd (2012)
- Equilibrium (2002)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966?)
- Hardware (1990)
- Idiocracy (2006)
- Lucy (2014)
- The Matrix (1999-2003)
- Max Headroom (TV series) (1987-1988)
- Mr. Robot (2015)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
- Oblivion (2013)
- RoboCop (1987)
- Silo (2023)
- Terminator (1984)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Total Recall (1990)
- The Trial (1962)
- The Trial (1993)
- Tron (1982)
- Tron (2010)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Watchmen (2009)
- Westworld (1973+)
- Zardoz (1974)
- The Zero Theorem (2013)
also
- Alphaville (1965)
- Dune (2021)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) + Front Line Assembly music video "Mindphaser"

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 ** Large cut-outs (around doors, around projected screens, giant skeleton hand)
 ** Ominous lighting
+** Paintings (maybe some from Jason)
 ** Project videos at odd Dutch angles for intentional distortion
 ** Windy room full of:
@@ Line 70: / Line 71: @@
 Funds support Windsor Media Centre overhead expenses and community projects.
-Santa will be attending.
+Food, Drinks, & Entertainment:
+DJs, Live Music, Videos, and Visual Arts.
+Santa will attend.
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 * Aeon Flux (1991-1995)
 * Akira (1988)
-* Love, Death & Robots (20xx)
+* Love, Death & Robots (2019+)
 * Princess Mononoke (1997)
 * Ghost In The Shell (1995)
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 ** Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton's_unrealized_projects Tim Burton's unrealized projects]'''
-=== Maybe ===
+=== Maybe samples from: ===
 * '''[https://infogalactic.com/info/Truther_Top_20_Movies_In_Dystopian_Science_Fiction List of 76 dystopian science fiction movies]'''
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 ** Barbarella (1968)
 ** Blade Runner (1982)
+** Black Mirror (2011+)
 ** Brazil (1985)
 ** Dark City (1998)
 ** District 9 (2009)
-** Dredd	(2012)
+** Dredd (2012)
 ** Equilibrium (2002)
 ** Fahrenheit 451 (1966?)
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 ** Westworld (1973+)
 ** Zardoz (1974)
-** The Zero Theorem (2013)**
+** The Zero Theorem (2013)
 *: also
 ** Alphaville (1965)
-** Dune (202x)
+** Dune (2021)
 ** Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
 ** Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) + Front Line Assembly music video "Mindphaser"