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Dudders sits down with her haunt siblings, Design Manager Nicole and Operations Manager Nino, to discuss spreadsheets, show flow documents, misconceptions of working at a haunted house, and more spreadsheets. Highlights: * Surprisinging your friends with a podcast. * We answer every haunters’ favorite question, “you’re working on things already?” * Spreadsheets are a haunters BFF. Thank you, Google Drive! * Nino and Nicole have very different opinions on color choice in spreadsheets. * Nino and Nicole outline our showflow documents. We adapted something we learned from Universal Studios. * Our show flow documents break down the attractions into room details including the narrative, actions, scenic, tech, sounds, and smell. * Tech talk with Nino. * You can never have enough reference photos. Nicole talks about her favorite kinds of decay. * Our leadership team is kind of like the Avengers with our own special powers and skills. * Are we still using skills we learned in high school? Kinda. * The misconceptions of working at a haunted house from acting to management. * Getting your build body back. * No time for sleeping, laundry, and showers during the build season. * Most times your coworkers don’t know you’re wearing the same pants several days in a room. * Forming sibling-like relationships with your coworkers. * Leaving work blankets and layers at the haunt because it’s so darn cold. Please subscribe to our podcast and leave feedback. We appreciate it! Follow the ScareHouse podcast hosts: Scott Simmons (@ScareHouseScott) and Katie “Dudders” (@kdudders) Visit us www.ScareHouse.com Watch us Youtube.com/TheScareHouse Like us https://www.facebook.com/ScareHouse Follow us https://twitter.com/ScareHousePGH
Scott, Nino, and Dudders look back on the craziness that was the 2018 ScareHouse season. From creating a zombie themed pop up bar, appearing all over the season, and super fun season, this has been an amazing haunt season! Highlights: * Bringing the Zombie Den to life in Market Square. * It was a fun and incredibly busy season. * Building the new Pittsburgh Zombies haunt to life and hidden Easter Eggs. * Hot tip 1: Find a graphic designer that enjoys good puns. * The birth of the bike riding zombie and the zombie pickle characters. * Hot tip 2: Get yourself a good leadership team. It will allow you to do more of the things you love. * Nino got to dig into DMX programming this season. * The “peppermint nightmare” at A Creepy Christmas. * ScareHouse’s weird history with Christmas. * How quickly A Creepy Christmas came together. * Adding our humor to A Creepy Christmas. * Bringing back our Krampus props. * Customer and cast reactions to A Creepy Christmas. Please subscribe to our podcast and leave feedback. We appreciate it! Follow the ScareHouse podcast hosts: Scott Simmons (@ScareHouseScott) and Katie “Dudders” (@kdudders) Visit us www.ScareHouse.com Watch us Youtube.com/TheScareHouse Like us https://www.facebook.com/ScareHouse Follow us https://twitter.com/ScareHousePGH
Row House Cinema is an independent, single screen theater in Lawrenceville. The basement houses Bierport, a bar with retro video games. Row House Cinema began as the dream of Brian Mendelson, enjoying beer at the movies for a fun night out. The remodel took over four and a half years. How they select movies and themes each week using the opinions of staff and public. There is no real formula. Creating a balance between different types of movies they show. Describing the joy of seeing some movies on the big screen. The fun of watching a bad movie with friends in a theater. Which movies they thought would sell well, but didn't (hint: a lot of 80's comedies). Using special events and gimmicks to sell movies. Process to get rights to show movies. Creating a wish list and having patience. Witches Week October 12th-18th. Row House of Horrors Week October 19th-31st. Combing the genres of of horror and comedy. How sound and a dark theater really ups the movie experience. Analog look back: Mystery movie played on a VCR. Travis' Jack Black story. Find Row House Cinema online:Website https://rowhousecinema.comFacebook https://www.facebook.com/RowHouseCinemaPGHTwitter https://twitter.com/RowHouseCinemaYouTube https://www.instagram.com/rowhousecinema/ For more information about Sorgatron Media Studios http://www.sidekickmediaservices.com/services/ Please subscribe to our podcast and leave feedback. We appreciate it! Follow the ScareHouse podcast hosts: Scott Simmons (@ScareHouseScott) and Katie “Dudders” (@kdudders) Visit us www.ScareHouse.comWatch us Youtube.com/TheScareHouseLike us https://www.facebook.com/ScareHouseFollow us https://twitter.com/ScareHousePGH