Spookywoods Videos 2021
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Project: 2 videos (projections) for haunt attraction
Client: Spookywoods • Contact: Nate Mitchell
Voodoo Spell Book
Provided Info
Project Overview & Usage
Create animated voodoo-style text and graphics that will be projected onto a book.
Video to be produced for a Haunt attraction.
Dimensions & Runtime
4:3 aspect ratio.
5–10 seconds.
Revised: 15-20 seconds (looping).
Design Details
Oversized book with blank pages will be set open on a pedestal. Video will be mapped onto the book, initiated as guests walk past it.
Pages should “burn on” at beginning, then “burn off” again at ending (creating a black end point to create the loop).
Text should be illegible (symbolic) and supported by illustrated graphics and other manuscript art. Reference: Theban alphabet.
The text should appear in an interesting way, followed by a large symbol that burns in over both pages of text.
Text and graphics should appear handwritten in black ink, on old distressed paper.
Vignette to black background, with centered black “crease” (accentuating book gutter).
Audience & Accessibility
Walkthrough attraction hosting thousands of guests.
Audience placed within feet of the book/video.
Design Development
Text Style
After researching several text styles and symbol variations, we found that this font “alphabet” to be the most flexible and fairly representative of the voodoo style.
Illustration & Graphics
We have researched and collected over 40 different illustrated voodoo-style images, with a few examples shown here.
These options range from highly abstract and graphical, to more representative imagery.
Page Border
Options for illustrated borders.
Background & Layout
Background – Distressed paper texture, vignette and gutter shadow to black.
Layout 1 – Intro text and graphic elements with full background.
Layout 2 – Finishing graphic elements.
Animation
Version 1 – text only.
Version 2 – with ending.
Version 2-2 – shortened.
Version 3 – resized, lengthened, new intro, and added text/imagery animation.
Spooky Vines
Provided Info
Project Overview & Usage
Create animated swamp-style vines that crawl mostly vertically up a wall.
Video to be produced for a Haunt attraction.
Dimensions & Runtime
16:9 aspect ratio.
20-30 seconds.
Design Details
Silhouetted black vine (and leaves).
Shapes should be less bezier curves and more jagged.
Background should be very dim, pale moonlight blue (luminance at around 10-15%).
Audience & Accessibility
Walkthrough attraction hosting thousands of guests.
Audience placed within feet of the wall / projection.
Design Development
Visual References
General research of vine growth on flat vertical surfaces.
Animation
Version 1 – vine growth and background color test.
Version 2 – new vine illustration and animation revisions.
Billing & Invoices
Amount Due: