ScarCon

This week we got the chance to go to a ScarCon event, in which we among other attractions owners got our own tour of the scary attractions before they went live. As no one had been before everyone was sceptical as what to expect even our lectures had no clue what to expect. Little did we know that when we arrived it was on a farm! Obviously not knowing that it was on a farm we weren't exactly dressed for the occasion. At first it was a lot of waiting around for the other guests to arrive, which was okay apart from the fact that we were sort of on a hill in Kent, which made it freezing.

Once everyone had arrived we then went into the barn and the man that started ScarCon talked to us about his and few others that worked with him what had been happening in their jobs for the last couple of months, so basically they went around all the attractions in England. I quite enjoyed this part of the talk as I found it quite interesting and sounded like something fun to do..oh how I changed my mind later. As for the rest of the talk it didn't really apply to us as much and of course I started to loose interest and I felt like it went on for ages. Finally the talk was over and we got to leave the barn, however to more waiting about, although there was a little tractor ride that is meant for kids during the day so we all went on that. When this attraction first started it was one of their main events where adults would get onto a trailer and get pulled by a tractor and taken for a ride to the woods, however as it became popular it became chaos when getting one group off for another to get on, so they had to have a massive rethink.


This tractor and trailer ride only really occupied us for about 10 minutes. We again had to wait around for ages until 5 before we could go in and look at the make up being done and have a look around the mazes before they went live which I think was and wasn't a good idea as we knew what they looked like with the lights on but with the lights off it was completely different. Below are some photos I took as we were walking around.

                                                   

Finally it was time that the farm went live, which meant that actors were now in the maze, I wasn't quite sure what to expect when all of a sudden they were coming out around the corner, at first I wasn't so bothered by them until this one came out photo below. This really freaked me out at the start I think it was just because it was a girl walking about on her hands and feet, and you don't always see that, it was also the way she moved and surprising how quickly she can as well. But I think the main thing when creating an attraction like this is that everyone is a little apprehensive about the dark, no matter what age I think everyone has a little fear of it and thats what I think made it so scary is because you can hardly see where you were going let alone where any of the actors where hiding waiting to come scare you.