Design & Production: Play-writing, Traffic, & Stations (Deadly Drive-In 2022)

Deadly Drive in 2022

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Looking Back at 2021 3

Playwriting Slasher Order 3

Traffic Christian 4

Slash Zone Caleb 8 Interactions - Abby 9

Stations Abby 11

Notes:

Need More car spaces

Screen Canvas

Grind house Drive in theater???

DECOY CARS

Lights off 15 seconds?

Intro music pertaining to characters Cover streetlights(I’ll talk to set)

Above is a more compact list of what was discussed. The very first thing we as a crew did was look back on what last year's crew did and what they didn’t do. We decided that with our upgraded PR, we were going to get some more people so we knew we needed more car spaces

Last year's screen was more plastered on the side of the tractor shed so we decided we needed to change that so it looked better. We also wanted to make it have more of a drive in theater than what we had last year. The crew liked the idea of a decoy car so we knew we needed to use that again. To give characters more of a moment we thought to have the screen and lights go dark for around 15 seconds but we weren’t sure how this would work. To get the lights off we thought to cover the lights with maybe a cloth but this was more for the set.

First Blush thoughts:

Traffic Notes:

System is as follows: Shortest to Tallest (to account for car height and eyelines)

At front of the screen sits Sedans Behind are Hatchbacks Behind are SUVs Behind is Trucks

Traffic Entrance Plan:

Staff members serve as usher’s for entrancing and exiting, Three Staff manning tickets in the student parking lot, one handling concession stand to keep things moving.

Cars will enter through the Student Parking Lot gate, ushered by students out of costume and remaining and VOLUNTEERING staff.

Ominous Music will be playing, most likely the Harry Manfredini Friday score, possibly the Shining Theme.

As cars enter, the entrance gate will be shut, giving a small scare. All lights off, Students will be fully costumed, ready to haunt, and prepared for the night behind the shed/ in the Tractor Shed Staff will be outside, ready to assist in case of emergency, and monitoring.

Traffic - Exit Plan:

At the end of the show, a staff member shall open the gate to shooting stars, and along with three others (coming from concessions and tickets,) will take two slashers at each gate, sending the other two staff at the second gate to usher cars out through the gates and to keep traffic moving.

Slashers will have masks off, candy in hand, smiling and waving people out, giving out the last of the candy in droves to the cars as they exit.

As all cars have exited, Staff will close the gates and walk students back to Shooting stars, closing the gate behind them to satisfy Mr. Stocks’ guidelines on the gate.

A small break will occur for all slashers to exit costumes, dry off, rehydrate, grab something to eat, and go back out to strike.

The screen, stations, lights, and soundboard should be done by the end of the night (Bare Minimum )

Our plan were to use one gate for entrance, use both for the exit. Have slashers stand at exits to say goodbye and hand out the last bits of candy Would need chaperones to watch students Possible second exit

Platform band stairs or smth

Below is the planned parking lot arrangement that will be used in our show this year. The black spaces represent a car that will be in that used on the day of the show. We would use an alternating pattern that would allow cars to be able to see the screen because a larger car would most likely not be in front of them. With the arrangement, we would have 34 cars and would fill in the remaining spaces if the original 34 were filled up.

On the Evening:

Last year, Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Deal Flynn handled all the traffic in the pouring rain. Mrs. Mrs. Chiles sold tickets at the front gate near side of school. The car then headed to the creepy cloth area that was set up under the trees so the car drives through. They were then met with Mrs. Deal Flynn who told them to drive slowly to Mrs. Rice. Mrs. Rice then helped cars park. She used a flashlight to help direct them However, it was difficult to park in the dark and rain and she tried to put smaller cars up front for better viewing

This year, Mrs. Rice came up with a system of 1, 2, 3, or 4. The 1 and 2 numbers represented small cars and 3 & 4 large cars. Mrs. Chiles helped again selling tickets at the gate. She also then gave each car a number. Mrs. Cushner (Christian’s mom) helped under the trees. She told them to drive slowly to Mrs. Rice. She used a walkie talkie to communicate with Mrs. Rice on the car number. Melly’s dad (who is a police officer) parked each car. They wore orange vests. Mrs. Rice would tell the car to go to him. He had a proper orange/red light for traffic He parked them skipping spaces

The system worked for the most part but some cars were deemed 3 but in fact they were more of a 4. Cars still had a difficult time seeing things like the Slash Zone area and the platform entrances. However, everyone could see and hear the screen and trailers. Two street lights were left on and for next year it would be even better if the one closet to the building was turned off. It was still safe enough to see in the parking lot.

One real drawback was that it took forever to park cars! The show started more like 8 pm instead of 7:30 pm Maybe next year we have a start time of 7 pm for 7:30 pm. The actors who were in the coffin and scarecrow bar were waiting for so long!

Need another walkie talkie for Melly’s dad or third person in parking lot. Maybe the rows could be marked off so they might be able to park themselves?

The biggest rows were 3 and 4. Row 2 hardly had anyone in it. It was mostly 1s and 4s.

MovementforCarHaunts/Interactions&Slash ZonesMoments

FirstBlush

Actors will move in duos by rows, there are four rows. They will move to the center and then head back to their stations.

The first time they are on that row they move from the outside to the inside, when they get back to that row they move inward to the edges. This way cars will guarantee that they are visited once by the character assigned to that row.

Second Plan

Actors will move in a corset pattern back and forth between rows starting at row four and moving towards row one.

Upon finishing row one the actor would move to row four on the other side and move toward row one again but move towards row one on the other side.

To the left is the rough draft of the “corset” plan that is mentioned

Third and Fourth plan

The following plans were done in a tired stupor and therefore make little sense to the original artist however I will do my best to describe the images.

The plans would entail a more rotational approach to the stations the actors will be staying at where the actor would go to a different location after every haunt.

Fifth and Final Plan

This was the plan that was enacted with extensive research and heavy deliberation

Firstly the plan was to start actors coming from the slash zone Secondly, they would then go up to the fourth row on the greenhouse side

Thirdly the actors would then go to the fourth row on the weight room side

Fourth the actors would go to the third row on the greenhouse side

Fifth, actors would move to the third row on the weight room side

Sixth the actors move to the second row on the greenhouse side Seventh, actors would go to the second row on the weight room side first row on the greenhouse side

Ninth, actors go the first row on the weight room side

Tenth the actors would repeat this starting with the fourth row on the greenhouse side

All the while actors are coming up and starting from the beginning as well

In between each step, actors would be going to their stations

In order for this plan to work we needed to know who was out during each characters haunts, thus we tracked it down and recorded all of this in our order document.

Ent

Pennywise: (Row 1)

Georgiewise: (Row 2)

Jigsaw and Pig Face:(Row 3)

Annabelle: (Row 4)

Sam: (Row 1)

Ring Girl: (Row 2)

The Creeper: (Row 3)

Ghost Face: (Row 4)

Hannibal Lecter: (Row 1)

Pinhead: (Row 2)

Chucky: (Row 3)

Freddy K: (Row 4)

The Miner: (Row 1)

Jason: (Row 2)

Michael Myers: (Row 3)

Leatherface: (Row 4)

Norman Bates: (Row 1)

The final masterplan

This document includes the order of entrances and Slash Zone moments, car haunt interactions, order of traffic rotations for car haunts, and stations.

SLASHZONE Caleb

What is THE SLASH ZONE?

The Slash Zone was an ancient idea long ago to have guests out of their cars, up close and personal with the actors in a “Splash” Zone experience ala SeaWorld, except ours was dubbed “The Slash Zone!” by Ms. Rice, the rest is history. Guests straight in front of the screen in the front row sit outside of their cars in neat chairs and cushions that,m give them a personal experience with the Slashers, 5 bucks per person! (Check Set Doc for More Info a visual reinforcement)

Big (ish) Interactions

Pennywise+Georgie (Boat hand off) [Micah ideas??}

Hannibal+Leatherface intestine meal Need to buy Honeybuns, edible blood

Freddy K+Jason SLASH OFF!!!!! AIRHOOOORRRRN (Fight! Possible Blood Bag)

Michael+Jason staredown (30 Seconds)

Jigsaw and Pig Face: Creepy Staredown (Puppet Head Jolts) Individual

Annabelle: Chair Stare

Sam: Candy Knockout

Ring Girl: Contortion Moves

The Creeper: Coming off the perch

Ghost Face: What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie? (Calling Zone Audience)

Hannibal Lecter: Cannibal Meal with Leatherface

Pinhead: Red Powder trail and staring

Chucky: Doll movements to Human transition, Bridal Veil (Still unsure)

Freddy K: Knife face caressing for intro moment, Eventual Slash off

The Miner: Bloody Valentines!

Jason: SLASH OFFFF!!!!! *Airhorns*

Michael Myers: Head tilting

Leatherface: Chainsaw taunting, Cannibal Meal

Norman Bates: Dear Mother, Mom Reveal!

Car Haunt Slasher Interactions - Abby

CHARACTER INTERACTION ITEMS

Items that the characters will use to interact with the people in the cars

● Red powder- Have- pumpkin bucket

● Balloons- Have

● Bugs- Have

● Candy- Have

● Jigsaw Sheets- Have 1 gray, 1 black, 1 red, white sheet

● tea lights- Have 8 all working

● Silly String- Have

● Bomb bags- Have

● Caution tape- Have

● Blood stickers- Have

● Body parts- Have

● Flashlight batteries - Have, Arrived Monday 10/24

Purchasing Doc

Flashlights:

Pennywise: Yes

Georgiewise: Yes

Jigsaw: Yes

Pig Face: No

Annabelle: No

Sam: Yes

Ring Girl: No

The Creeper: No

Ghost Face: Yes

Hannibel Lecter: No

Pinhead: Yes

Chucky: Yes

Freddy K: Yes

The Miner: Yes

Jason: Yes

Michael Myers: Yes

Leatherface: Yes

Norman Bates: No

Slasher CAR INTERACTIONS

Pennywise: Balloons (Tie to cars, hold)

Georgiewise: Bloody balloons (POP)

Jigsaw and Pig Face: Creepy cloths

Annabelle: Chair

Sam: Candy

Ring Girl: Bugs

The Creeper: Body parts

Ghost Face: Silly String

Hannibel Lecter: None

Pinhead: Powder

Chucky: Silly string

Freddy K: Bugs

The Miner: Valentines

Jason: Bugs

Michael Myers: Bloody stickers

Leatherface: Body parts

Norman Bates: Mom

STATIONS - ABBY

Stations are places where the actor can relax between themes and take off their mask, drink some water, etc

STATIONS

BACK OF TRACTOR

TRAILERS (TT)

BEHIND GREENHOUSE (GH)

CAFETERIA COURTYARD (CC)

STATION ASSIGNMENTS

Georgie: CC

Pennywise: GH

Jigsaw and Pig Face: TT

Annabelle: GH

Sam: TT

Ring Girl: GH

The Creeper: CC

Ghost Face: CC

Hannibel Lecter: TT

Pinhead: CC

Chucky: GH

Freddy K: TT

The Miner: CC

Jason: GH

Michael Myers: TT

Leatherface: CC

Norman Bates: GH

NEW IDEAS

Debating on adding a station with a curtain to create a corner, near the CC station Prop table instead of boxes

RENDERINGS These renderings display the visualized design of the station, as well as the characters there + the items they’ll use

Stations - First Blush:

Stations should be placed in several spots behind hardcover Jason and Micheal behind Bushes and Shrubbery next to the Weight Room Samara and JC behind white tractor area, beside Tractor Trailers

Unsure of inventory for stations, will check today Actors will begin the show in their stations with one or two up behind the tractor shed

3 stations 6 people at each

3 Tables 1 at each

18 chairs 6 at each

18 water bottles

A box holding props and interaction items

On the the station tables

A water bottle for each actor

A small flashlight for certain characters

Props and interaction items

Candy Fake bugs The Stations on the day of