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    The House game.

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    Hey, everyone! Or someone. I'm asking a favor if anyone is willing to let me use their log-in ONLY for the House game (I know, I know, should've done it before while it was still Sept and October~ *BUSY those months*). Definitely appreciate it. <3

    Or should I be patient and wait until a member copy the site, and the contents with it, for display? :B

    Half the games, if not all of them, have been turned off and can no longer be played. I'll see if I wrote down one of my extra accounts somewhere though later.

    HHN 21 Discussion

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    Incorrect. Universal does use outside vendors for media production services, but that does not include social media and PR. Those are handled in-house.

    As far as a coffee table book goes, they definitely are a lot of work. That being said, ours may not be officially licensed by Universal, but I think we had some pretty nice results. We'll have info on the HHN 21 book once we're a little further along.

    Let me rephrase, they now use Context Optional to make and maintain the Facebook (and twitter) app they use to post/schedule their social media. They do not even bother using a custom application to hide it on Twitter. When you go to one of Universal's tweets and click the method it was sent ("Social Marketing Suite") it will take you to a log in page for Context Optional.

    Coffee table books is a great idea and all but I'm not sure if it'd have the same wide appeal every single other piece of HHN merch has. I don't know how many people that go to HHN would want to buy a coffee table book. DVDs on the other hand I could see being a great hit and selling as well as the hoodies and such.

    HHN 21 Discussion

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    I would pay that just for Bill and Ted this year. The houses and scarezones would be a great bonus though

    B&T would never ever happen for the same reason why the take down old B&Ts off youtube, even when the event is over.

    House and scare zone videos would be awesome though. Although I could see some problems with filming in some of the zones like Nightmaze. A light would ruin the zone.

    HHN 21 Discussion

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    I was attempting to point out that if they did hire a company it wasn't something they needed to do. With a decent IT person and a decent camera they could have done the same thing for free or next to nothing. An IT person that I would think a company like Universal would have already on staff.

    You say they spent a ton of money on last year's stream? For all that money spent they got a terrible quality stream. If you think that stream was good then you need to check out some of the stuff currently out there. A 500 dollar camera could have picked up things better than the camera's used last year.

    You mention facebook, the technology is out there for a great HD stream. The UFC streams live HD content on facebook every other week or so. Don't even tell me Universal can't figure out how to do that themselves. If they can't I think they need to hire some better personnel, although I know they already have people that good on staff.

    As for you saying they didn't have any ads so money had to come from somewhere, I would argue that the whole thing was one big ad. It was a promotional tool for Halloween Horror Nights, in my book that makes it an ad. It didn't work so I believe that's the real reason it didn't return this year.

    If they wanted to do it them self they'd have to set up a flash player to stream the content the decent IT person was on the street filming. Further, the decent IT person would need to buy Universal some servers or optimize their current ones for live video streaming. All of Universal's flash, the more advanced web designing, and many many other things not related is done by X Studios. So they'd more than likely end up hiring them to set them up a flash page that streamed the live content the decent IT person was filming.

    I thought the stream was great quality last year. Perhaps it was your internet and or connection to the stream that was the problem. There's many other things to consider besides them using a bad camera.

    Facebook marketing until this year was not a big deal for Universal. It became a much bigger focus this year when Universal hired Context Optional. To do a stream on Facebook it'd be the exact same thing as setting up an external page expect the page would be in a facebook application. Universal uses X Studios to design their facebook applications, so it'd be the same exact process as I put above with a little bit of more coding junk and such added.

    When I mentioned the ads I was explaining the company that Universal hired obviously couldn't put up ads on the streaming page so they had to pay for the expenses of a server that does live video streaming and such somehow.

    HHN 21 Discussion

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    You do realize streaming online cost's very little right? With sites like uStream even you could do it for free with a computer and webcam. It's not like last years was amazing quality. I'm sure they have someone on staff that can figure out cheap streaming options. I'm guessing the real reason is for one it gave away a scare and it may have to do with web traffic for the stream last year. If they didn't convince people on the fence to spend their hard earned cash on a ticket then it didn't do it's job and was pointless to do again this year. I would like to see a constant stream in a scarezone like 7 all night every night. Of course how many regular people are going to sit at their computer and watch HHN? I'm guessing it was just the hardcore fans watching and we're going to go to the event no matter what.

    Streaming online via a professional company and not some live show site like uStream does have it's costs. Universal hired a professional company to stream live, the same company that streamed the opening of Harry Potter for Universal. No one from Universal sat on a bench somewhere and just turned on their terrible webcam and started streaming on uStream. They used real cameras and since they didn't have any ads the professional company has to get the money for bandwidth and all from somewhere. Video streaming takes up tons of bandwidth. You can't just use some laptop camera with HHN as you wouldn't be able to make out anything in the dark. Not to mention Universal using uStream isn't too professional looking, even when they tried to integrate it in a Facebook app this year it didn't look great.

    You did hit another point though when you mentioned that it didn't convince people. I don't think for the effort and money and all it gave outstanding results, or else we'd see it back.

    HHN XXI Fan-Made Wallpaper

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    I've been trying to figure out the length & width for the background on Xbox 360..cause every time I put any of these wall papers it just doesn't seem to fit the screen and makes it twice the size. If someone could find out what the length & width and possibly make a wall paper for me so I could put it on my xbox. Would be awesome! This is the picture I would love to have.

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    If anyone could do this, It would be awesome!!

    It's fit to the size of your TV.

    Scene of the Year

    in Halloween Horror Nights 21

    Posted

    I've got another fun poll that's a little more thought-provoking than the obligatory House and Street of the Year polls. What was your favorite specific scene of HHN21? All of the houses are fair game. I won't post the actual poll just yet - I want to hear actual nominations (since there are only 20 spots on any poll) before deciding what scenes should be on the official vote.

    Here's some criteria you should consider:

    -Scariness

    -Consistency/Repeatability (was this scene still scary or at least entertaining on repeat trips?)

    -Strength of Acting (were the actors in these scenes, both casts, effective in their use of the space?)

    -Set Design (did this scene have strong set design in addition to simply being scary?)

    I'll post my initial nominations/scenes that are almost guaranteed to be nominated. If you disagree with a nomination, please say so and explain why. Justification should be provided with actual nominations as well.

    Pixie Stix/Line Room (In-Between)

    The yarn room has to be one of the worst executed rooms this year. The yarn in the room is straight and the costumes didn't have any yarn that was straight.

    As far as scene of the year goes... Winged Demon towards the end of the run was great. Get Lucked has to be my favorite just due to both casts of actors being amazing at their roles and being extremely consistent. Some nights of closing weekend I'd go through HR 20 or so times and every time both casts in that particular room would try to be scaring. They actually managed to get me multiple times every night.

    H.R. Bloodengutz: Holidays of Horror

    in Haunted Houses

    Posted

    How the hell does someone get deer piss through security, much less inside a damn house? Holy crap, the nerve of some people. Thankfully it was so close to the end of the run that they were just able to remove the props without much trouble. Unbelievable.

    It's not a hard thing to do. To get pass initial security you put it in your pocket. To get pass HHN security you go to one of the scream early. To get into the house with it you just put it in your pocket again. Although, I could see them getting rid of scream early or adding security checks to the areas next year. Especially if things like this continue... I'm assuming this is why Nightingales was closed last night too.

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