[SML] Unaskable Haunted House Question

[Richard Niederberg]

Just go for the old 'experiment' where one person is appearing to push
buttons and another person is screaming in pain as if they are being
tortured by the first actor. It worked for a colleague's college
thesis way back when. Then you can explore deeper to see if a peace
officer really is sadistic, rather than passive, when issuing
citations. This seems to be a characteristic of occupational sadism,
and conceptually the same as the torture gag, as discussed in DSM-5.
/s/ Richard.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> On 09/20/2014 09:07 PM, Jeremiah Minh Grünblatt via Stagecraft wrote:
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> Folks:
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> Please understand, before I even ask the question, that I am not going to
> let the following occur. There is no chance of it actually happening. And
> yet – the kids I’m working for on this uber-hip haunted house next week have
> asked me to suss out the technical gimmickry behind the tough mudder electro
> shock obstacle. Again, I am not going to rig a live mesh of 10,000 volt
> wires as a gauntlet for the unsuspecting public. However, I am interested in
> thoughts as to how best to fake this gag (i.e., a big scary single-pole
> switch box that crackles and looks like it is sending live current through
> suspended wires) and am ACADEMICALLY interested in how we think the actual
> tough mudder obstacle is fabricated.
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>
> I completely understand if no one wants to touch this question with a
> ten-foot insulated pole, but I couldn’t think of a better group to ask.
>
>
>
> J. Minh
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> Maybe LED rope with individually addressable LEDs, all blue-white.  Sound
> effects to go with "sparks".  Fog creeping out of the box and places the
> "sparks" are going.
>
> For even better look, but higher cost, have a neon bender make some crackle
> lamps for your sparking wires.
>
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/s/ Richard
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