Halloween 2008 Offical Site

My friend, Put together a awesome website for our 2008 display, I had wanted to use this blog, but this site is much much better. I was actually quite surprised how cool the site looked. I cant wait until this Halloween.

http://halloween.deejaychad.com/

All done in flash (sorry iPhone users, you actually have to use your full sized computer for this one.)

Halloween 2008 Offical flyer

Today my friend made a flyer for us to distribute to friends family and neighbors. I think it looks pretty well done. If you want a pdf copy to save or print its available here.

We finished the first sequence

Today we finished the first sequence. It needs more work, but the majority of it is done. Its pretty nice to kick back and watch an entire sequence you have just completed. It is 2:47 long, and it has a fade-in to our next song. With the fade in included it is 3 mins long. The song completed is Night on bald Mountain. See the link to the song here. (That link is just the song not my sequence.)

Test of some new mini lights.

After shipping several times at more than 6 different stores, I have gatherd a small collection of mini lights. I couldn't wait until Halloween to see them all. I plugged them all into my LOR controller box so I could see the parts of the sequencing done. I also picked up a mini strobe light unit at OSh for 6.99. Picured below is a small taste of what we have.

Most of the orange lights are from target ($2.99) and the white lights are from Lowes ($2.48)

The total count thus far of new lights we have purchased is now about 50 boxes of 100 mini strands, not all of them are pictured.

I orderd my Edm fm transmitter today

For those of you who don't know what that is, its a fm transmitter for my show. I used my Belikn tunecast II in years past, but I want Higher Quality sound. So this year I took advantage of the Planet Christmas Group Buy deal. I particularly like this FM transmitter because the power output is adjustable to what you need, Which allows you the best ability to not interfere with anyone else, and to keep people happy. Because the Transmitter has such high quality efficient transmitting, a much lower transmitting power can be used than otherwise needed.

Video and Photos of my halloweeen Display...

When 2008 came around the corner, I said it was the year for new standards, so I refuse to post any online video or photo content that does not look perfect. Thus all my videos in the future should be HD videos on vimeo. And Ill be taking photos with my new camera. Sure Ill still be posting a normal quality version on you tube, but ill make an extremely strong argument that you should be watching my hd video and no the youtube one :P. This is totally unrelated to my show, but I figured it was time to bring up the standards in 2008.

Halloween Show in the plannings now (2008)

I plan to do a rather large (large to me) Halloween show this year. The interesting part is, no one trick or treats at my house, so im actually going to barrow my friends house this Halloween, and he is going to use some of his DJ equipment to add more effects. Its still in planning, but it looks like this will be cool. Still its a small show, but its bigger than my last one. Also we should have some fog machines going the whole night too. So far we have about 2700 lights planned (still extremely small scaled) 16 channels. I plan to blog along the way the progression of the show.

So far I plan on using these songs in the show:

Night On Bald Mountain (Track #8)
Hall of the Mountain King (Track #2)

(listen to the songs here free)
Halloween by Mannheim Steamroller