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Halloween Haunter’s Reality #2

September 5th, 2008 by John Wolfe

Welcome back to the Halloween Haunter’s Reality series. This second installment contains three main segments. The first, features footage of my scarecrow corpse after turning it into a fogger prop. The second segment includes my recent trip to Party City to check out their Halloween displays which, unfortunately, weren’t ready yet. And the third, features more detailed footage of the mache “corsping” process for my ground breaker skeleton.

The entire installment is split into two parts and can be viewed in the players below. Once again, the music featured on my stereo, during the corsping segment, is by raison d’etre.

Thanks for joining me for this second Halloween Haunter’s Reality installment.

Part 1

Part 2

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Halloween Haunter’s Reality

August 29th, 2008 by John Wolfe

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.