This past Friday we held our latest First Friday, under the theme of Thanksgiving. There we held tables to advertise the Prom, the Crystal Ball, the White Rose Banquet, and many more. One new change for this First Friday was that, rather than limiting our audience to Business Seniors, we allowed any Senior into the event. While this event seemed calmer than past First Fridays, we did have a small issue in the beginning when the FFLA bought in a food table. This lead to a massive pile up near the entrance of the hallway, with many individuals crowding the way. We were able to change this however when we "convinced" them to move their table farther down. After this the opening for the First Friday, the area I was situated in, became much calmer, to the point of being boring seeing as nothing truly happened for our end after that. However, judging from the sounds coming further down the hallway, where our residential DJ, DJ Fabian was located at, it just seemed that the party decided to follow the food.
All in all, I would say that this event, while having a small hiccup or two, went off fairly well. One issue I did see was the continuous need of some form of security or enforcers, as to keep these pileups from occurring again.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Halloween Event
On October 31, 2012, we here at Project XIII held our own little haunted house in order to both celebrate Halloween, as well as to promote red ribbon week and drug awareness. This little event was lead by our very own Derrick Williams who planned and participated in the haunted house.
The basic format for this event was fairly simple. We first broke the event into two main parts, one targeting children, telling them about how bad drugs were, and the main event, the haunted house. For the haunted house we decorated our room, creating pseudo-walls out of joined garbage bags, adding small decorations such as "bloodied" signs, strobe lights, and a skeleton. We also had students positioned near the entrance who would tell their own little story about how drugs affected them and ruined their lives, while at the same time scaring them and moving them into the second part of the haunted house. Mind you, for this event, all of our students had dressed in costumes as to keep the tone of the event.
To give you an overview, we first had groups of five to six come in through the back doorway. There we had set up an arch with a paper curtain to block their view. As they walked into the arch, we had a large fake spider drop onto their heads. As they stumbled pass that part, they then ran into me, their designated tour guide for the first half of the haunted house. Seeing as I had been dressed as an evil jester, I made sure to unnerve the group with constant signs of insanity and mental imbalance. I then lead them into an area we designated as the "graveyard." Their we had one of our students, Esmi, play the part of a dead body. After introducing her, I lead the groups towards the designated story area. However, practically right after we left the graveyard, Esmi would pop up to scare the group. From their I lead them to the stories, where they would listen to about two stories before we start to literally scream at them to get out. This lead to many groups trying to stumble area from us, where they would pass Cynthia (playing what I believe had an uncanny resemblance to a creep doll). She would then usually pop up screaming at them, scaring them even more as we pushed them into the second part of the house.
As they entered the second half of the "house" there would be students popping up at random intervals to scare the groups, as we herded them into Fabian's "domain." While I am not a hundred percent certain as to what occurred in that section of the event, I do know that a large percentage of our people who visited our event, ended up running out screaming from his little "dungeon of horrors."
In the end we had over 240 individuals who signed to show that they stopped by to visit the event, surpassing last years by a fair margin. In fact, we had so many clients that many were simply unable to enter seeing as their lunch had ended before they could enter. All in all, I would say that this event was a smashing success, and a great way to start off our bigger events with.
The basic format for this event was fairly simple. We first broke the event into two main parts, one targeting children, telling them about how bad drugs were, and the main event, the haunted house. For the haunted house we decorated our room, creating pseudo-walls out of joined garbage bags, adding small decorations such as "bloodied" signs, strobe lights, and a skeleton. We also had students positioned near the entrance who would tell their own little story about how drugs affected them and ruined their lives, while at the same time scaring them and moving them into the second part of the haunted house. Mind you, for this event, all of our students had dressed in costumes as to keep the tone of the event.
To give you an overview, we first had groups of five to six come in through the back doorway. There we had set up an arch with a paper curtain to block their view. As they walked into the arch, we had a large fake spider drop onto their heads. As they stumbled pass that part, they then ran into me, their designated tour guide for the first half of the haunted house. Seeing as I had been dressed as an evil jester, I made sure to unnerve the group with constant signs of insanity and mental imbalance. I then lead them into an area we designated as the "graveyard." Their we had one of our students, Esmi, play the part of a dead body. After introducing her, I lead the groups towards the designated story area. However, practically right after we left the graveyard, Esmi would pop up to scare the group. From their I lead them to the stories, where they would listen to about two stories before we start to literally scream at them to get out. This lead to many groups trying to stumble area from us, where they would pass Cynthia (playing what I believe had an uncanny resemblance to a creep doll). She would then usually pop up screaming at them, scaring them even more as we pushed them into the second part of the house.
As they entered the second half of the "house" there would be students popping up at random intervals to scare the groups, as we herded them into Fabian's "domain." While I am not a hundred percent certain as to what occurred in that section of the event, I do know that a large percentage of our people who visited our event, ended up running out screaming from his little "dungeon of horrors."
In the end we had over 240 individuals who signed to show that they stopped by to visit the event, surpassing last years by a fair margin. In fact, we had so many clients that many were simply unable to enter seeing as their lunch had ended before they could enter. All in all, I would say that this event was a smashing success, and a great way to start off our bigger events with.
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