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Step 2Hologram Illusion
This is the part of the haunted house that trick or treaters liked the best. As I said there is another Instructable that shows you how to do this, but there are just a few things that they left out that I thought were pretty important. Here are two links to Instructables that show you how to do this: Pepper's bride illusion and the original hologram illusion instructable
There are only a few things that you will need for this. You will need a pretty big piece of plexiglass mine was 30"x36", a tv or monitor that is at least a foot diagonally the one I used was a flat screen hdtv that was 15" diagonally, some fabric or sheets to hide stuff, some black construction paper to hide stuff, a bowl or other decorations, a chair, and a light. Make sure that you get plexiglass that is thick enough that it won't bend easily.
Warning: Do not remove the protective plastic that covers the plexiglass until you know what is the perfect position and when you won't have to touch it or move it anymore because if you remove it early it will scratch and the effect will be ruined!
I took a chair and put it in front of the window that is in front of our house where people walk by. Then I set the glass at approximately a 45 degree angle against the window.
I took the curtains and duct taped them to the chair so that you cannot see the edges of the plexiglass. I used a piece of fabric to cover the top edge of the plexiglass. It is just taped to the top of the window and hangs to cover the plexiglass.
The plexiglass leans on the front of the chair so that you can put decorations behind the hologram. The chair I used has a cushion, if the plexiglass leaned on the cushion it would make an indent and whoever was looking at it would be aware of the glass's presence. Having it on the front hides the bottom edge of the glass because it is in between the bottom of the cushion and the metal at the front of the chair.
Behind the plexiglass on the chair is a glass bowl with a layer of candy in it. The bowl is positioned so that it looks like the head is in the bowl. You have to change the angle of the glass so that the head is at the right height in the bowl. Just move the chair forward or back and let the plexiglass slide up and down the window.
I covered the outside of the tv with black construction paper because the color of the trim around the screen reflected onto the plexiglass and made it look like a screen instead of a hologram. The window I used almost went down to the floor, so I had to use some construction paper to hide the tv. I put the paper at an angle so that if you look down on it (or if you're really tall) you still don't see the tv.
Another Warning: Make sure that if the plexiglass you got is thin that it is not bending and distorting the image. If it is bending and distorting the image, experiment with different positions and try turning the plexigass over to find it's strongest side where it won't be distorted.
Finally the all important video that I used. I found this video on the internet of a talking head. It's supposed to be used for something that looks like the Madame Leota crystal ball in the haunted mansion ride at Disneyland. I just put that video into iMovie and looped it a bunch so that it was like an hour long. Then I just burned it to a dvd and connected it to the tv using my ps2. Here's the link to the site where I got this video. I also put the video right below here so that you can download it right now. Madame Leota crystal ball link
There are only a few things that you will need for this. You will need a pretty big piece of plexiglass mine was 30"x36", a tv or monitor that is at least a foot diagonally the one I used was a flat screen hdtv that was 15" diagonally, some fabric or sheets to hide stuff, some black construction paper to hide stuff, a bowl or other decorations, a chair, and a light. Make sure that you get plexiglass that is thick enough that it won't bend easily.
Warning: Do not remove the protective plastic that covers the plexiglass until you know what is the perfect position and when you won't have to touch it or move it anymore because if you remove it early it will scratch and the effect will be ruined!
I took a chair and put it in front of the window that is in front of our house where people walk by. Then I set the glass at approximately a 45 degree angle against the window.
I took the curtains and duct taped them to the chair so that you cannot see the edges of the plexiglass. I used a piece of fabric to cover the top edge of the plexiglass. It is just taped to the top of the window and hangs to cover the plexiglass.
The plexiglass leans on the front of the chair so that you can put decorations behind the hologram. The chair I used has a cushion, if the plexiglass leaned on the cushion it would make an indent and whoever was looking at it would be aware of the glass's presence. Having it on the front hides the bottom edge of the glass because it is in between the bottom of the cushion and the metal at the front of the chair.
Behind the plexiglass on the chair is a glass bowl with a layer of candy in it. The bowl is positioned so that it looks like the head is in the bowl. You have to change the angle of the glass so that the head is at the right height in the bowl. Just move the chair forward or back and let the plexiglass slide up and down the window.
I covered the outside of the tv with black construction paper because the color of the trim around the screen reflected onto the plexiglass and made it look like a screen instead of a hologram. The window I used almost went down to the floor, so I had to use some construction paper to hide the tv. I put the paper at an angle so that if you look down on it (or if you're really tall) you still don't see the tv.
Another Warning: Make sure that if the plexiglass you got is thin that it is not bending and distorting the image. If it is bending and distorting the image, experiment with different positions and try turning the plexigass over to find it's strongest side where it won't be distorted.
Finally the all important video that I used. I found this video on the internet of a talking head. It's supposed to be used for something that looks like the Madame Leota crystal ball in the haunted mansion ride at Disneyland. I just put that video into iMovie and looped it a bunch so that it was like an hour long. Then I just burned it to a dvd and connected it to the tv using my ps2. Here's the link to the site where I got this video. I also put the video right below here so that you can download it right now. Madame Leota crystal ball link
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