Day 134- Halls of Doom Officially Open!

Welcome back ghouls! WE are now ready to begin the journey together for 2011. The 'Halls" are back and better than ever! Today we will do a live walk through and show you the layout. Please refer to the plans from the last post after watching the video. The first area we are going to work on is....the Map Room. One of the key events this year. I figured I would start on my half of the garage. Recognize the music? Yes of course. Raiders of the Lost Ark. A portion will be used for the audio in that room! Now again this year we are limiting the events. One thing I have realized is that if you have a ton of halls or rooms and don't restrict the flow somehow, no one is going to see all the cool stuff you spend so many hours creating. We have 2 events (elevator and map room) where guests are trapped for possibly 15-20 seconds. They have no choice but to notice the surroundings. Timing is everything. So the breakdown is 10 seconds lets say to get to the elevators, 30 seconds to get in go down to the crypt and get out. Another 30 seconds to get into the map room and another 10 or so to get out into the vortex. So...we're figuring 1.5 minutes basically to clear the garage portion of the haunt before the next guests come in. 6 guests per entry. 2.5 hours total for Halloween this year. That means about 35 to 40 entries per hour x 6 or around 500 or so guests total. Probably that will work from what we have seen here before. OK ghouls, let's get cracking!

I did notice if you leave the music playing while running the video you can't hear me too well. Actually it's kind of a creepy effect if I must say so myself because it's like we are about to create something that is other worldly if you know what I mean, but feel free to hit the pause button on the player at the bottom of the page or you can turn the volume down at the far right on the bottom.