Thread: TV in graveyard?

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I want to incorporate a TV into my graveyard so I can play Van Heslings Curse DVD but, how do I make it look it's not out of place? I've thought of a coffin or crypt but my graveyard is kinda small. What I'm looking for is a way to do something with the TV itself so it fits into the graveyard...ideas??

Put the screen into a tombstone.. slightly cover the screen with moss / webs

Honestly, I'm not sure it's possible to put a TV in a graveyard and not have it look out of place. Even if it's part of a tomb, it will still look like, well, a TV in a graveyard! If you're ok with that, go for it! It will be unique, at least.

Faux mausoleum wall and a projector to show the movie on it or use it to frame the TV so it looks like they're watching a projected movie. Bunch of skeletons or zombies having movie night.

Firefox is telling me faux is not a real word. Along with combust and snuck (snuck may be slang in some areas but it's still a real word). As in, "I really wish whoever snuck in to write this horrible FireFaux spell checker would spontaneously combust."

Will people be sitting and watching the whole movie? Or is it just a visual effect? If it's just an effect, I'd only use super-scary clips and probably switch to a projector.

Make the graveyard somewhat disheveled and overgrown, and the TV look as if it was tossed out? (Old TV lying half on its side with other junk tossed around (soda cans, etc), cracked case, dirty, yet somehow spookily receiving transmissions without power?)

Ex (though not in a graveyard): the way the tv is used in the Aphex Twin Come to Daddy video.

I like the idea of incorporating it into a tombstone, but what about just getting it right out there?

I would see if you could locate an old floor model television like this:


would be easy to build or you might be lucky enough to find one at a thrift store or craigslist... gut it and put a real tv inside, and have a family of skeletons out of their graves catching up on the "latest" shows. You could have mom and dad skelly sitting on a tomb, and a few kid skellies laying in front with their chins in their hands... it would be really unique and funny for a graveyard.

Love the idea, Frankie's Girl! I was thinking along similar lines of having a skeleton/ghoul arm reaching out of a grave and either holding a remote or reaching for the dial/tv.

Cool ideas, what about a peppers ghost effect. Hide the tv behind a headstone or crypt, then reflect the image off of a piece of plexi glass. We tried to do it last year with a static picture, but it started raining so i had to scrap it.

Thanks everyone for your ideas. I guess there is no way to make it look not out of place I just have to work with what I have...as far as an idea goes. I like the distressed idea, moss, maybe make the screen look cracked and a few bugs crawling over the screen.

No no one will be watching the whole thing so just using short clips of VHC, slipknot, Alice Cooper, and other "shock rocker" would maybe work better than showing the whole VHC DVD.