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I plan to show you ways of enhancing your own graveyard. Below are photos of my graveyard, and I'll be discussing how I came up with these ideas. It doesn't take much to make a good graveyard. If you look at the photo below you probably spotted the giant spider with its body. Below the spider are the tombstones that I use to make a graveyard. I use the word graveyard to describe what you do on the exterior of your house. I will only talk about how to decorate the exterior of your house. Interior is discussed under haunted. |
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This photo was taking on the night of Halloween. This shows how lighting can infect the look of your project. Making it better or worse be careful on how you use your lighting.
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Here you can see a typical graveyard scene. I placed the tombstones behind the plants, this give it more depth. Putting more tombstones in front gives it a layered effect, giving the illusion of more depth and a larger area. Laying out some bones gives it more of the horror movie look. I did not trim the grass along the edge of the stones to give it a rougher look, and at night people might think it's not cut. | ||
Look at the graveyard scene; you can see the hand reaching out of the ground. I used a prop hand with some PVC pipe to make it into an arm, and an old sleeve from an outfit. It’s the little touches that spook people. They don't see it to begin with, but when they look closer and they spot it. And from all the horror movies we have seen we get a shot of fear. The bones add to the look of an old graveyard that has been abandon. |
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Here is a simple coffin that I made from 1 by 4 board. It doesn't take that much time, but it gives you so many different options. You can have someone inside who popped out to scare people. Or a fog machine inside set on a timer or to a motion detector. The lid could lift up to show a body inside, like a burned body. You could put a CD player with speakers and record your own horror sounds. Like a man calling for help with the sound of rats. Lights inside could go on and off to the music. |
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One night I went out with some string and made a spider web. You might look at spider webs from books to get an idea of how to do this. I used a ladder to get to the peak of the roof which had a hook there. I strung the string from my Windows to the peak of the roof to the other window. Then to the ground, and then I started running strings up and down across. Then you run other strings in between. |
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You might be asking where I got a Werewolf. The Werewolf was made by putting together a PVC pipe body frame. Unto which I put some foam (you can look for old sofa for the foam) to fill out the body and then dressed him up with some clothes. You should use long-sleeved shirts when you do this. This covered up the tape that I used to put the hands on. Keeping him in place was easy I used a vent pipe to tie his leg to. |
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The old fence is not that hard to do in a weekend |
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This shows the difference of what it looks like at night without a flash. |
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Death at the door. |
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| July 19, 2009 | |||
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