Thread: Possible ideas for my graveyard:

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Possible ideas for my graveyard:

Decorations: Iwant to go from 4 to 8 tombstones. I want to incorporate Halloween animals, like crows and bats. I'mgonna download all my Halloween songs to my MP3 player, and hopefully get dome small wireless speakers. I'd like to get clips of the animals mentioned above, as well as church bells. Target had cement or stone gargoyles. If anyone knows the price, let me know.

Name:

I thought of calling it the Nocturnus Graveyard, or something along those lines.

Costume:
My costume will be a grum reaper, but with a crow mask.

If anyone has any ideas, objections, or comments, let me know, please.

There are easy instructions for building a graveyard fence somewhere on this site out of pvc and wood slats. Also a place to buy plastic finials for the fence. Looks great.

Making your own stones? Sounds good so far. check out the tutorial page to get help with ideas and How to's

I'm thinking $19.99 for the Target Gargoyles....I bought a couple at the beginnning of the season...could be $24.99...

As for speakers, my suggestion is to try Big Lots; they often have quite a few at very low prices compared to other stores. The gargoyles are usually around $20, like Scatterbrains said. Design Toscano and Dark Knight Armoury have nice selections, too.

The stones are cheap if you purchase pink 4x8 foam board you can make 2 or 3 nice tombstones out of one sheet. Also there are cauldron setups you can make with fake coals that look like the real thing just type what you want to do in the search area and it will take you to it.

I told my friends, co-workers, family etc.to save me their POWERED computer speakers when they get rid of them.....You'd be amazed how many people have those laying around they don't want....I've got a bin full at the moment....Everything from nice sounding yahama sets (good for mp3 quality scenes) down to not so great ones (good for the lower quality quick scare sounds like screams or sounds with not much low end like wind).....I like them because they already have the 1/8 inch plug which works for a variety of mp3 players to computers to Fright Ideas controllers........ZR

Go to my pics. There are a few pics there to give you an idea of the yard.

Ps, I don't have the fhnds, storage, or knowhow to do all the tech stuff, nor am I able to do all the prop building stuff. I'm visually impaired.

Sounds a lot like my own graveyard. Not sure what your parameters are, including finances or know how, but most of what you want can be bought/built for cheap. Adding a few moe stones is as simple as either buying some when the Halloween retailers open up, or making your own out of foam board. Rubber bats and rats can also be purchased inexpensively. I have picked up gargoyles at Target on a couple occassions and they run $20.00 each. The sounds you want are pretty common and it shouldn't be hard to get a compilation of them on one track giving you some nice atmosphere.

A couple pics of my graveyard fearing stuff you're talking about.


Foam tombstones, rubber bats hanging in tree, and one of a pair of gargoyles I got at Target a few years back.

Latex vulture and small furry rat with foam stone.






Pair of store bought latex zombie hands coming out of the ground





One of a pair of gargoyles I picked up this year at Target, also $20.00