Some great ideas, there!
I do a big ALIEN display with a space station with alien inside, and a `space-chopper' with my wife in a space suit in it with a facehugger on her, giving out the candy.
On my porch this year, I'm making a bigger version of an effect that was really popular in previous years.
I videotaped my wifes' eye, outlined in black, with the camera zoomed in so that her eye filled the entire screen, for about 15 minutes, with her rolling her eye around and doing different eye motions. I then looped that onto a DVD for an hours worth of one large eye.
I got a big screen teevee front screen from a nearby teevee shop, off a dead teevee, you might have to seek out a teevee shop to get one, and am going to project it so that I'll have a 4 foot wide eye gawking at people.
I had previously done this just using a 20" teevee, with black curtain all around it, and behind another black curtain screen with a hole in it, and it was a really popular crowd pleaser.
If you're in Bowling Green, KY on Halloween, take a drive down Magnolia St., and look for the fog and lasers.
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Some great ideas, there! I do a big ALIEN display with a space station with alien inside, and a `space-chopper' with my wife in a space suit in it with a facehugger on her, giving out the candy. On my porch this year, I'm making a bigger version of an effect that was really popular in previous years. I videotaped my wifes' eye, outlined in black, with the camera zoomed in so that her eye filled the entire screen, for about 15 minutes, with her rolling her eye around and doing different eye motions. I then looped that onto a DVD for an hours worth of one large eye. I got a big screen teevee front screen from a nearby teevee shop, off a dead teevee, you might have to seek out a teevee shop to get one, and am going to project it so that I'll have a 4 foot wide eye gawking at people. I had previously done this just using a 20" teevee, with black curtain all around it, and behind another black curtain screen with a hole in it, and it was a really popular crowd pleaser. If you're in Bowling Green, KY on Halloween, take a drive down Magnolia St., and look for the fog and lasers.