Season of Shadows Blog

Over the course of the next sixty three days I’ve decided to do a sort of reality video blog series- Halloween style. Each video will feature “fly on the wall” type recordings of my nine week prep work counting down to Halloween night. I have a lot of projects ahead of me- some I may finish, some I may not, but it’s my intention to document a large portion of these with short (roughly ten to twenty minute) video segments. Basically, I’ll be attaching the digital camera to my hip for the next several weeks. I’ll be taking it with me during every Halloween related trip or project I’m working on and grabbing footage along the way.

Since I’m emphasizing the reality portion of these videos, there’s not going to be any fancy camera work or great soundtracks. The footage will be posted as is, including all of the flaws, cracks and pops, with very little editing. I’ll be operating the camera myself, unless it’s set up on the tripod, so the majority of this series will be point of view shots.

While I’ve never been a fan of traditional reality programming, I thought this would be something really fun to do; since it’s actually about showcasing Halloween items and Halloween preparations instead of focusing on a person’s life.

The first video was recorded yesterday while I was adding skin and texture to a ground breaker skeleton in my garage. You can play it by following this link or watching it below in the embedded YouTube player. The running time is 7 minutes, 31 seconds. I hope you enjoy it!

The ambient music playing on my garage CD player, in this clip, is by raison d’etre.

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Here are a few photos from last year that weren’t included in the Halloween 2007 page. This first image is a shot of the decorations on the front porch- a location that’s never seen by a lot of trick or treaters! Many of them don’t make it past the yard display and if they do, there’s usually a surprise or two standing near the bushes on the way up the drive. In all seriousness, we take it very easy on the little ones. I can’t say the same for the older kids.

The following images are a variety from the cemetery display and my prop previews that were also never included. I hope you enjoy them:

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