From beginning with the local JC's haunted house to now, one of my biggest frustrations has been trying to create numerous scare opportunitys for my actors so they don't get bored, BUT when I did this many of them thought I was asking too much of them, couldn't understand what I was trying to tell them, had no sense of timing and generally didn't do multiple scares, they did one because they were too confused(scared or lazy?) to comprehend anything more than that?
This is not rocket science! Put yourself in a certain location, do a certain thing the way I tell you. Then after that move to the second location and now do the other thing I showed you how to do, now return to that first location, and while travelling between those locations if you see some customer vandalising the place or wandering lost scare them or escourt them out or call someone else to help you do the appropriate thing, whichever that may be.
It was actually easier to have my helpers learn over 30 minutes of leading and narrating the house tour than for them to do hit & run ambush scaring!?
Of course anything does require some time to get it right and some of those early people left long ago.
I actually have some very talented and creative tour guides here that crack me up!
They might use a line I use then modify it slightly or tell the line making me the butt of a joke, implied or actual.
Most people who have worked here found out right away that this is harder to do and do within acceptable standards and limits than they imagined it would be. I have been at fault sometimes forgetting this because I have been performing here basically non-stop over all these years.
An earlier comment about a real person gets tired making the same spiel all night long...(versus a machine doing it) I say different things all the time. This makes it more interesting for my customers and me.
Last October in one night I began by telling of a true supernatural experience here and as the night wore on and the crowd got drunker it morphed into my psychic ability to guess which person sitting on the couch was going to pass gas next?
It all played well, I had fun too!
This is not rocket science! Put yourself in a certain location, do a certain thing the way I tell you. Then after that move to the second location and now do the other thing I showed you how to do, now return to that first location, and while travelling between those locations if you see some customer vandalising the place or wandering lost scare them or escourt them out or call someone else to help you do the appropriate thing, whichever that may be.
It was actually easier to have my helpers learn over 30 minutes of leading and narrating the house tour than for them to do hit & run ambush scaring!?
Of course anything does require some time to get it right and some of those early people left long ago.
I actually have some very talented and creative tour guides here that crack me up!
They might use a line I use then modify it slightly or tell the line making me the butt of a joke, implied or actual.
Most people who have worked here found out right away that this is harder to do and do within acceptable standards and limits than they imagined it would be. I have been at fault sometimes forgetting this because I have been performing here basically non-stop over all these years.
An earlier comment about a real person gets tired making the same spiel all night long...(versus a machine doing it) I say different things all the time. This makes it more interesting for my customers and me.
Last October in one night I began by telling of a true supernatural experience here and as the night wore on and the crowd got drunker it morphed into my psychic ability to guess which person sitting on the couch was going to pass gas next?
It all played well, I had fun too!
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