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[Convention] ScareLA Sunday Classes: August 10th
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Sunday Classes: August 10th
- Marketing Your Horror Project: How To Market Your Horror Short, Feature Film, Book, Comic, or Art in a Digital World  // Instructors: Rebekah McKendry and Ryan Turek
- Psychological Scares: Fear is All in the Mind! // Instructor: Leonard Pickel
- Foam Sculpting 102 // Instructors: Dustin and Edward Maberry
- Magic, Misdirection & The Macabre // Instructor: Jimmy H
- Poseable Prop Hand Workshop // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $20 materials fee ($15 for Scare Students) // register here
- Haunted Lantern Workshop // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $30 materials fee ($20 for Scare Students) // register here
- Tombstone Carving Workshop // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $25 materials fee ($15 for Scare Students) // register here
- Hairdos into Scaredos: Creative Wig Design // Instructor: Laura Richards
- Tricks and Treats of Halloween Party Planning // Instructor: Charlie Scola
- Mid-Century Macabre DIY Decor // Instructor: Kaci Hansen
- Gruesome Gourmet with The Homicidal Homemaker // Instructor: Kaci Hansen
- Haunt Safety // Instructors: Preston Meyer and Jason Thompson of Rotten Apple 907.
- Managing the Bodies: The Logistics of a Haunt // Instructor: Michael Keane
- Beyond the Boo: Alternative Scare Techniques — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Justin Meyer
- Production-Level Music Composition for Haunted Attractions // Instructor: Chris Thomas
- Costume Sewing 101 // Instructor: Concetta Verna
- Costuming on a Budget — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Concetta Verna
- Creating Wounds — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Steph Koza
- The Brilliance of Black Light // Instructor: John Rayburn
- The Next Level of Haunts // Instructor: Bruce Stanton
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Marketing Your Horror Project: How To Market Your Horror Short, Feature Film, Book, Comic, or Art in a Digital World
Fangoria’s Rebekah McKendry and Shock Till You Drop’s Ryan Turek will walk you through the ins and outs of horror marketing. You will learn how to reach genre-oriented press, agents, as well as bring plenty of fans to your work. This course will cover the steps to take before you even create your project and will keep you prepared and publicized the entire way through! Â // Instructors: Rebekah McKendry and Ryan Turek
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Psychological Scares: Fear is All in the Mind!
Haunters are always looking for ways to increase the scare factor of their attractions, but there are only so many giant animatronics that the budget can handle. In this session, industry veteran Leonard Pickel with delve deep into the psyche of the human brain and share psychological tips and tricks that he has used over his 40 year history of scaring people. Psychological Scares are cheap and easy ways to increase the scare factor of any haunted experience. This class will cover how to use the patrons own imagination against them to increase the effectiveness of existing scares and how to use psychology to create new scares in your attraction. // Instructor: Leonard Pickel
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Foam Sculpting 102
In this class the instructors will take you through more advanced tools for foam sculpting demonstrating how to sculpt larger items using techniques unique to the entertainment industry. This class will show you how to take a flat peace of foam to the next level turning it in the attention grabbing item in our haunt/film. // Instructors: Dustin and Edward Maberry
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Magic, Misdirection & The Macabre
Magicians have used techniques to baffle audiences for thousands of years and many of these principles are still used today in modern entertainment. Join magician, haunt monster, and Halloween enthusiast Jimmy H as he teaches you how to incorporate basic elements of illusion into your Halloween event. // Instructor: Jimmy H
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Poseable Prop Hand Workshop
Learn to make poseable prop hands for your creepy creations with common items found around the home. You can create them in any size and format to fit your prop, costume, and more. // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $20 materials fee ($15 for Scare Students) // register here
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Haunted Lantern Workshop
Learn to convert that old oil huricane lantern into a creepy prop for your halloween display, yard haunt or haunted house. // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $30 materials fee ($20 for Scare Students) // register here
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Tombstone Carving Workshop
No Halloween graveyard is complete without them, but why spend big money on the same tombstones your neighbor has? Learn how to carve your own custom tombstones with items found at your local home improvement store. // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $25 materials fee ($15 for Scare Students) // register here
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Hairdos into Scaredos: Creative Wig Design
Your monster look isn’t complete without the finishing touches. Love horror film hair? Dirty zombie hair? Dreadlocks? Taught by wig designer Laura Richards of The Charming Violet, learn how to take a party store wig and turn it into a show quality wig. You will learn how to choose a wig, style it, tools and accessories, care and feeding of your wig. // Instructor: Laura Richards
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Tricks and Treats of Halloween Party Planning
Celebrity party planner, caterer and author Charlie Scola (aka PartyCharlie) teaches five steps to create an outrageously successful Halloween party. // Instructor: Charlie Scola
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Mid-Century Macabre DIY Decor
Join “the macabre Martha Stewart”, The Homicidal Homemaker, as she shows you how to make 1950s-inspired Halloween decorations and treat favors. // Instructor: Kaci Hansen
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Gruesome Gourmet with The Homicidal Homemaker
Join “the macabre Martha Stewart”, The Homicidal Homemaker, as she shows you how to slice, dice and scream your way to creating absolutely KILLER gruesome gourmet delights that your guests will be DYING to sink their teeth into! // Instructor: Kaci Hansen
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Haunt Safety
Every haunter wants to create a safe experience for their guests. In this class, we will discuss general haunt safety precautions and preparation, fire codes, and city and state codes. Whether a haunted attraction is a home haunt or professional event, each has similar logistics when it comes to protecting both visitors and crew members. We’ll focus on fire protection, placement of emergency exits and lights, general electrical safety, and access code requirements as well during this session. Local civic entities often call on home haunts to enforce fire and city ordinances with rigid standards. Haunters need to be prepared to understand and be compliant with these city guidelines, so that they may enjoy a smooth and successful Halloween season without any unexpected bumps in the night. // Instructors: Preston Meyer and Jason Thompson of Rotten Apple 907.
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Managing the Bodies: The Logistics of a Haunt
For many, staffing and managing a haunt is their own nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be. From finding the all the ghouls and ghosts to fill your hallowed halls, to getting the most out of those completely green bodies, to keeping it all running through All Hallows Eve, it’s enough to put anyone in an early grave. In this class taught by Michael Keane of Fright Fair, we will go through the the audition process (even if you are in a time crunch), training all those fresh corpses to get maximum scare, and making sure that it all stays standing until Halloween. // Instructor: Michael Keane
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Beyond the Boo: Alternative Scare Techniques — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)
“Classic scare techniques like the “pop-out” scares, the “loud banging”, and the “boo” are simple and effective options for inducing fear… but there is a huge arsenal of other concepts and techniques that will bring terror and dread to the hearts of your fans! Justin Patrick Meyer (Creative Director for Ten Thirty One Productions) leads this interactive class, designed to elevate the acting choices of your scare actors, building tension and anxiety in the writing and layout of scene and story elements, and using alternative “touch” techniques to give your haunt seekers a much more tactile and visceral experience.” // Instructor: Justin Meyer
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Production-Level Music Composition for Haunted Attractions
Matching the proper musical soundtrack to a haunted attraction matters! Just as it is with movies, your choices will dramatically alter guest perception of your event. Good music is good for business! Hosted by composer Chris Thomas (Los Angeles Haunted Hayride), this intermediate-level course will explore techniques involved with the creation of haunting music, how a strong soundtrack supports the intensity of a haunted attraction, various types of haunt music styles, and free-to-use software that is widely available to musicians to use in creating their own scores. Chris will be creating a music track during the class, as he demonstrates how truly frightening a cello can be in the hands of a haunter! // Instructor: Chris Thomas
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Costume Sewing 101
Join us for a basic introduction to hand and machine sewing, including pattern alterations. You don’t not need a sewing machine for this class. You will learn hand sewing practices for easy to come by items such as buttons and snaps and hooks. A few sewing machines will be available for demonstration purposes and patterns will be provided to practice pattern alteration techniques. // Instructor: Concetta Verna
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Costuming on a Budget — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)
Learn how to cheaply find, make, and alter costumes from items around the house or found at thrift stores. We’ll share some of the best places online and in the LA area to find second-hand clothes, and how to quickly and cheaply change the look of an existing garment by cutting and adding pieces. Check out examples of exquisite costumes that began as altered and thrifted clothes. // Instructor: Concetta Verna
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Creating Wounds — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)
Makeup artist Stephanie Koza (Placebo FX) takes you through a step-by-step course on how to create realistic-looking flesh wounds without latex or prosthetics. Stephanie will demonstrate bite marks, lacerations, gunshots, stitches, scrapes and more on a willing victim for your learning pleasure! // Instructor: Steph Koza
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The Brilliance of Black Light
Join scenic artist John Rayburn (John Rayburn Consulting) as he demonstrates professional black light painting techniques that will help haunters and set designers create seemingly dimensional, textured flats and environments. John will discuss mixing Wildfire paint to create realistic colors, as well as how to properly light different scenes to achieve the greatest black light effects for your production. // Instructor: John Rayburn
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The Next Level of Haunts
Take your home haunted house to the next level. Reign of Terror’s Bruce Stanton will take a detailed look at key factors in making an excellent experience. This class will look at soundscape, lighting, animation controllers and fog machines. You will be provided with specific examples of themes, concepts, and which products are right for your event. Learn how to “wow” your audience. Once your event is up and running, you will learn crowd management, and making the attraction safe and fun for everyone, including yourself. Bruce will also discuss in detail five of the most effective scares he has ever implemented in his haunt. // Instructor: Bruce Stanton[divider]
