Thread: Ghost Prop Help

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I was looking for some advice on a ghost prop for my cemetery haunt. What I am looking for is a silhouette female figure. Need some ideas on how I can do this? I am looking into starting now for next year. Thanks

What sort of silhouette?

The first thing that occurs to me is maybe making a projector that shines a light through a cutout. If you put the light source on an oscillating fan, you could make the silhouette move across a wall.

How about some scrim stretched on a wire outline?

14 guage "baling wire" holds it's shape pretty well - make your outline with that.
Lay out your scrim (perhaps stretching it slightly, to really remove wrinkles and keep it gauzy) - lay the wire outline on top, use fabric glue along the entire edge and fold the scrim over the wire.

That silhouette will then be transparent when lit from behind, but visible when lit from in front - have lights go on and off to make her appear and disappear.

Great Ideas. Thanks. I never thought about a scrim. I need to look into both ideas. I have a old fan that oscillates but the fan went out. I wondered what I could use it for(prop idea). I thought about a zombie or something. Thanks

You might check out our web site, we have a bunch of halloween / haunted house ghost prop type stuff and our ghost are UV / Blacklight reactive.

MAKE: Blog: Wire ghost

This.

Would also be interesting seeing how it looked with a tiny bit of glow-in-the-dark paint...

Frankies girl Thats pretty cool..... sooooo simple but cool. Wonder what that would look like at night with a light shining at it or up from the ground at it...?

what is scrim?

A scrim is a piece of fabric that you can see through when the light source is behind it (facing you), but you cannot see through if the light is on your side of the fabric.