Halloween 2023

Halloween Party 2023-10-28 Flyer v1 First Draft, Pending Approval.

Halloween Party 2023-10-28 Flyer v3.

Brainstormed organizing ideas

Associations with local groups?
- Scarehouse
  - Promote their thing, they promote ours, maybe they donate tickets
- Windsor Express basketball team
  - Tall players to be characters (Grim Reaper)?

Create event planning email list

Friday preferable? Why?

Invite media pros to participate?
- Gavin Booth
- Nathan (moulage)
- Scarehouse actors
- Walter Riggy

Prizes?
- Jason has all 4 Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Burger King watches in their original boxes
- Scarehouse tickets
- Windsor Media Centre classes

Need to arrange

Expenses
- Bar
- Bartender
- Food
  - Colleen's cupcakes?
  - Nepalese catering?
  - Friday 13th Jason mask at BBQ?
  - BBQ (hotdogs, burgers, corn dogs, corn cobs, baked potatoes)
  - Candy apples
  - Pizza, Smores, Candy, Chips, Apples, Cupcakes, Cakes, Drinks, Fruits, Veggies

Free
- DJs / Music
- Lighting
- Video

Budget

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Wish list

Red and green duct tape
Roll of black paper
Roll of white paper

Promotion plans

Facebook e-flyer
Print posters to post in person
- Artsy places (also worth cross-networking)
- College, University
- Farmers' Market
- Storefronts: Downtown, Ouellette, Wyandotte, Tecumseh
- Malls
Recruit assistants assistance to print, drive, ask, tape posters
Share in social groups beyond just the Media Centre

Interactive activities

50/50 raffle
Bazaar market?
Candy at door
Costume contest
Human car wash
Karaoke to ONLY Halloween songs
Photo cutouts for folks to poke their heads/faces
- Blacklight?
- Classic painting portrait
- Giant Jack Skellington head with hole eyes
- Tiki beach scene
Photo with Grim Reaper costume of lots of black fabric (for tall person, maybe on stilts)
Photos with Santa (limited hours)
Player piano? (faked?)
White cloths over all furniture

Activities for kids

Arts and crafts
- Cutout spiders from hand tracing
- Decorate trick-or-treat bags/baskets
- Ghost painting from footprints
- Make paper owls
- Make slime
- Make your own Frankenstein
Beanbag toss at ghosts in windows of haunted mansion
Costume photos against green-screen (5 to choose from like we did a Bloomin’ Garden Halloween 201X)
Gift/goodie baskets
Hook-A-Duck
Horse/pony rides?
Pin the arm on Sally Finkelstein
Pumpkin pinata
Target shoot-out (Ghostbusters or Van Helsing)
Three-legged race
Whack-A-Gremlin
What's-in-the-box games
Wig Sales (find our pop up 2016 photos?)

Activities for all ages

Bonfire?
Costume parade
Dance party
Face makeup
Face moulage
Face painting
Live DJs
Live karaoke
Live music
Pumpkin carving/painting
Pumpkin-pong
Shadow puppets

Activities for adults

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Decoration ideas

Decorations could/should be used for other occasions, purposes, or years.

Caution tape ("police line do not cross")
Christmas corner (dark, gothic, macabre)
Cornstalks, pumkins, and other harvest items
Curtains
- black
- red velour (with gold fringe)
- red velvet (with gold rope and fringe)
- Cutout footprints
- Tracks lead up wall and across ceiling
- Tracks evolve from human to wolf
Cutout ghosts in bathroom?
Diverse masks collected on one wall
Entrance vehicle: Ghostbusters Ecto One vehicle (Winton's MV1 + basic decoration)
Janky scarecrows with black shredded fabric
Large candy canes - lots, and larger than life... HUGE!!! (many broken, and in pieces)
Large cut-outs (around doors, around projected screens, giant skeleton hand)
Large pantyhose sculptured tensegrity structures (easier to explain in person with illustrations)
Lighting
- "3D" projecting through layers (cheesecloth, etc)
- Blacklights (reference Nightmare Before Christmas glow-in-the-dark scene)
- Gobos (spotlight stencil projects silhouette)
  - Batman symbol
  - Clouds
  - Gothic windows
  - Lightning
  - Moon + witch
  - Spiral(s) spinning (on floor)
  - Star field
- Ominous lighting
- Project videos at odd Dutch angles for intentional distortion
- Strobelights
Manequins and/or skeletons in costumes?
Paintings (maybe some from Jason)
Scary sign "I'd turn back"
Windy room full of:
- Campfire stories / scary story corner (ie. Death in the Mission building)
- Fake fire (fan + fabric + light? or rotating light?) (campfire and/or fireplace in different locations?)
- Fog/Smoke machine
- Ghosts (fishing line hanging balloons with shredded white fabric over them)
- Logs
- Long yellow triangular flags
- Spiderwebs
- Squiggly gnarly branches
- Stumps
- Taxidermy
- White sculptures

More Decor

Animatronics
Balloons
Body parts, brains, fake eyeballs
Candle lights
Cauldrons
Coffins
Dead trees
Fake axes, knives, chains, scythes, and pitchforks
Fake bats
Fake cats
Fake chainsaws
Fake crows / ravens
Fake rats
Fake snakes
Fake spiders
Fog machines
Gargoyles
Ghosts
Glow sticks / bracelets
Gothic mirror
Hay
Hearse
Inflatable decorations
Mannequins
Neon signs
Pumpkins (real / fake)
Scarecrows
Skeletons, bones, skulls
Streamers (black / orange)
String lights
Test tubes, beakers, flasks, and potion bottles
Tombstones
Trick-or-treat bags
Webs (cotton / fake)
Witch brooms
Witch hats

And

Microphones
Speakers
Plastic cups
Plates
Punch bowls
Signs
Tents

Flyer text

Pending approval.

International Animation Day
Saturday,
October 28
2023
Children free 12noon-6pm
Adult fundraiser 7pm-2am
$price / 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
Costume Contest, DJs, Interactive Art, Live Music, Videos, & Visual Arts
Santa will attend.

Media playlists

Movie theatre playlist - Day
Movie theatre playlist - Night
Audio Halloween sounds - Day
Audio Halloween sounds - Night
Video projector clips - Day
Video projector clips - Night

Video projection playlists

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

◉ ANIMATION ◉

♫ Hallowe'en Shoundz ♫

YouTube fan-edited videos by Khameleon808:

The Apple Tree Feat. The Glitch Mob

The Apple Tree II Feat. The Glitch Mob

Day (for kids)

All kid-friendly clips or short videos.

Night (for adults)

Just animated?

Edited clips, shorts and/or features?

IMO, the best would be a healthy balance of diverse aesthetics clips with a heavy sprinkle of animation and good Burton. Clips can dazzle. Length will drag. The only place for full stories, shorts or features, is in the basement's theatre.

Animated

Aeon Flux (Animated Series) (1991-1995)
Akira (1988)
Love, Death & Robots (Animated Series) (2019+)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ghost In The Shell (1995)
The Brothers Quay on YouTube
TRON: Uprising (Animated Series) (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 (Series)
- Wikipedia: Tim Burton's unrealized projects

Maybe

Take audio/video clips and samples from (among others):

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 (Series) (2011+)
- Brazil (1985)
- Dark City (1998)
- District 9 (2009)
- Dredd (2012)
- Equilibrium (2002)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
- Hardware (1990)
- Idiocracy (2006)
- Lucy (2014)
- The Matrix (1999-2003)
- Max Headroom (Series) (1987-1988)
- Mr. Robot (Series) (2015)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
- Oblivion (2013)
- RoboCop (1987)
- The Shining (1980) - and other Kubrick movies
- Silo (Series) (2023)
- Terminator (1984)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Total Recall (1990)
- The Trial (1962)
- The Trial (1993)
- Tron (1982)
- TRON: Legacy (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)
  - source of footage in Front Line Assembly's music video "Mindphaser"