Home Haunt Tips & Tricks

1. Home Haunt Tips & Tricks Presented by Scare Hollow Creators: Troy Crivellone & Dean Morrison

2. Design Phase • Group Meetings First meeting is to brainstorm and throw our theme ideas. Homework: Think of a scene for the theme. • Worry about cost later Don’t restrict an idea based on cost yet. • Design around what you have Not what you need. If you can’t easily get a ‘57 Hearse don’t form a scene around it. Only form the basic scene idea around something you can easily get(for free) or cheaply make or buy. • Assign Jobs Ask for volunteers to head up stuff; marketing, building, make-up etc. Assign people to scenes instead of everyone working on everything. Then always be available to float around to help.

3. Planning Phase • Map out your space • Figure out good meeting times for everyone(or as many as possible) and don’t have too many, once every 2 months is fine until August. • Stick to your plan once it’s set, which should be by May. • Get a good feel for the best times to work on the haunt as well. Work parties are the best!! • Flow of Traffic: Think and walk out how people will go through the haunt. We use the alternate effect, look left…walk…look right…walk..look left.. Etc.

4. Item/Material Procurement • CRAIGSLIST CRAIGSLISTCRAIGSLIST!!!! - Check the Free section DAILY. - Sign up for a free account. - Once you have items you need, post a wanted ad and keep it updated and “renew” it every 2 weeks. - Spring is the best time for furniture and wood. - October is best time for Halloween free items too.

5. ANTIQUE TRIMET FARE BOX (SE PORTLAND) What can I say? It was a gift. Certainly not anything I need. Free to the first person that wants to come and get it.Call Kevin 503-407-8105

6. Free Privacy Fence (NE 63rd Portland) 2 large pieces of fencing available due to deck renovation. Also use decking material. Will respond to phone numbers only.

7. Vintage Ritter dentist chair (SE Portland) This chair is a lovely piece of design. It makes for comfy porch sitting and great conversations with your neighbors (or maybe a tattoo artist could make professional use of it). This beauty is a Ritter dentist chair, probably from sometime in the late 1920s. Similar chairs are being offered on ebay for $650. This one has a little rust on the chrome from being on the porch in Portland winters, though all the levers and adjustments still work. The base is filled with hydraulic fluid, which makes it very heavy to move - bring a truck and at least three strong backs! Must be gone by May 18!

8. Currently owned by Scare Hollow!!! Wooden Coffin Prop--Free to a Good Haunted Home! (Hollywood District) We're trying to find a new haunted spot for a large wooden coffin, once used for haunted house activities in a former life. This spacious crate of the crypt features a carpeted interior for maximum comfort and style, as well as exterior bar handles for easy transport from one spooky location to the next. If you can haul it, you can have it! Please respond to this post via email if you're interested in getting your hands on this must-have haunted house accessory. 

9. Garage Sales • Great for costumes, fixtures, screws/hardware, furniture, buckets of golf balls for stress relief, etc. • Driving around neighborhoods on Sunday afternoons/evenings • Free piles of left over garage sale items • Saturday afternoons are good too after a day of cleaning out sheds or garages, think spring cleaning for lots of cool stuff for Haunts • Behind/sides of Home Depot/Lowes/Lumber Yards • Great for Pallets and cut up pieces of wood

10. Building Tips & Tricks • Pallet Walls: - Use 4x4 pallets to create walls that are sturdy and can look creepy with ease. -Plans on separate hand-out • Paint Sprayer: • Harbor freight sells a cheap electric one. • For large walls and exterior painting, this is a must and you can customize the look. • Make walls and roofs first, if you have outdoor haunt: • Slope the roof if possible or use plastic sheeting • Dry area to work in • Use Your own stuff: • Use stuff from your own house, friends, and family to fill the haunt and surroundings.

11. Building Tips cont. • Outlets daisy-chained to ext. cord • Use 14ga ext cord & outdoor outlets or covers • Mount outlets on wood stakes or near the bottom of scene walls www.instructables.com/id/The-Extension-cord-from-Hell/#step1

12. Building Tips cont. • Fluorescent starters = Flickering light • Use FS-2 starters (found at HD, Freds, Kmart, Walmart) • Wire them inline with the cord or with a 5amp fuse holder. • Get or use a miter saw!! • Biggest time saver I know of. Check Cragislist. $25 on Craigslist

13. Evolution of Scare Hollow 2008 2011

14. Habitat For Humanity ReStore Portland ReStore10445 SE Cherry Blossom DrPortland OR 97216503.283.6247 Map Washington County ReStore13475 SW Millikan Way(corner of SW Millikan Way andSW Hocken Ave)Beaverton, OR 97005503.906.3823 Map Clark CountyHabitat for Humanity Store5000 E 4th Plain BlvdVancouver, WA 98661360.213.1313 Map Hours:  9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday thru Saturday Portland Rebuilding Center 3625 N. Mississippi Ave.503-331-1877Mon - Fri 10 - 6, Sat 9 - 5, and Sun 10 – 5

15. MARKETING Sign up for free email address Get a Facebook page Get a free Website (Wix.com) Get a twitter account Sign up for event email lists Email local radio and TV stations Make Flyers (store windows, poles, etc) Make a big sign for your entrance Make smaller signs for haunt info Use VistaPrint for T-shirts, car magnets, business cards, etc (use living social deals)

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17. Make sure you sign up for a PAGE, not a regular facebook acct.

18. OPENING AND CLOSING • Open on time!! • Queue Line monster • Patron count (use clicker) • Take breaks (every 1-1/2 hr) • Take video of the haunt • Walkie Talkie’s • For emergencies and patron needs (up or down the scare level) • Recycle what you can • Sell back the pallets • Return borrowed items • Donate or Craigslist • Items not to be used again or can be repurposed. • SAVE THE BUILDING MAT. • 2x4’s, plywood, and screws • Post Haunt meeting • Tear down parties

19. WEBSITES • www.wix.com • www.rebuildingcenter.org • www.pdxrestore.org • www.halloweenmonsterlist.info • www.vistaprint.com • www.pdxpipeline.com • www.qrstuff.com • www.hauntedhouse.com/submit/index.html • www.hauntersvideoawards.com • www.garageofevilnetwork.com • www.homehauntersassociation.com One armed grave grabber hauntforum.com/showthread.php?t=25737 Haunt insurance www.donatinsurance.com/index.html Home haunt props & parts http://monsterguts.com/ http://www.oregonpallet.com/recycling www.palletsbyifco.com/locations/portlandpallets

20. THANK YOU Thank you for your time and if you have any questions we are in booth 43 until 5pm tonight. You can also contact us at scarehollow@aol.com https://www.facebook.com/ScareHollowPDX www.scarehollow.wix.com/home