Thread: GHOST- transparency style. :)

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my transparency ghost. This is it reflecting off my wall, using an overhead projector. Will have it reflecting off fog, eventually.

What do ya'll think?

I like it! I can also imagine it with the fog giving it some slight motion and depth. Should be cool! Will this be visible through your front screen door, or somewhere else in your haunt?

You could also use a colored transparency if you wanted to try a slightly different effect, but I think it looks great as it is too.

Thank you, Demon Dog.

I'm going to put it outside somewhere... not sure where yet. Things change daily around here. (okay, hourly. LOL )

I like the idea of a colored transparency. Thanx for that.

btw- she stands about 5 & 1/2 feet tall.

That sounds like a great decorating idea!

I like it!!!

That is so cool.

Wow, so many great ideas. Now if I could only finish the ones I started.

That idea has so much potential. I need to get one of those overhead pojectors from a thrift shop or someplace. I've read about of folks taking apart dead lcd monitors an laying them on those over head projectors as a poor man's video projector.

Good stuff

That is going to look seriously creep projected onto fog.

I just read another trick using a projector... small flat transparent tray filled with an oil/water mix and gently agitated with a fan (maybe place over your projection?) would make her ripple and simulate movement without it being projected on fog even...

hmmm.....that is a very cool effect. I may be missing something though, was the idea to project it directly on a fog bank? With the fog acting as a projector screen?

Originally Posted by creeepycathy

my transparency ghost. This is it reflecting off my wall, using an overhead projector. Will have it reflecting off fog, eventually.

What do ya'll think?

Awesome Ghost! I like the idea, but I wonder if projecting onto fog will work!? Unless you use a fog screen, the image will be too distorted. The biggest potential problem will be wind.
Any stray wind will cause fog particles to cross into the projected beam, illuminating the fog; revealing the effect was done using a projector.

I like FrankieGirl's idea of using oil and water above the transparency, but instead of projecting onto fog, you can project onto scrim, thus eliminating uncontrollable fog/wind conditions. Plus..it's just a pain in the rump to get fog to cooperate. So instead of fog, maybe try a thin black sheer fabric. IDK. Just a suggestion.

I like the ghost transparency! Cool idea! Do you have a template?