This is not a typo, it’s reflection of my feelings on this year’s event. I have already written about it here on the Dread House site.
This has been an exercise in how I want to improve the ideas and make the whole thing better. I have walked away feeling like a failure and a nagging feeling the Capel manor will not let me do it again. They give me free-reign, adopt and incorporate my ideas, give me the time I ask for and then pay me. It is an relationship I am keen to maintain, I also get to be Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny as well. I could also manage a summer show. Also my clinical supervisor Brian, thinks it’s a great idea. I was also chuffed and proud to see my long time friend Rob come along and take photos, he got a special viewing and had the house to himself.
The planning started as I said in the post on the DH site back in January and by the of February, I had the main idea designed. I took it to Alex and Anisah at Capel and they approved it. The intention was there, had I managed to secure the funding, I am not sure how much better it would have been. I purchased the second marquee in September, we didn’t have the black material. The old marquee was sitting in my garden under the old blackout material for a year. They all survived, barely. I bought a new shed to house all of the kit and I have just finished assembling it and got all of the props and both marquees inside.
The set up and the partitions were much the same as last year, I didn’t have a design in mind or a brief, so I was relying on Greg to come up with something. The best course of action was to follow suit from last year. Now I have given it some thought, I will try a new system with plumbing pipes. This is the idea so far, it’s a haunted house, with 3 rooms and a tunnel of terror at the end.
