Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Transworld-Check...National Haunters Convention Your Up!


Well we are off on another adventure. A bunch of people stopped by our booth at Transworld and told us how great our product was..well we got a big head. Now we are taking our big head Macy's style and floating it to Pennsylvania to the National Haunters Convention. If you are nearby come check us out. You don't want to disappoint Santa? Do you???

New Promo Photos






















Thursday, March 12, 2009

Can magicians be any more creepy...


Listen, don't get me wrong, I loved watching David Copperfield walk through the Great Wall of China. I even loved it when David Blaine disappeared from that garbage can, but seriously whats with that "Magician's Stare"? That is the creepiest thing. Why do they stare like that immediatly after finishing a trick? Do they think their slight of hand is so good that you are going to faint, or better yet kneel before them and proclaim them your new sun god?

Anyhoo, Meet McBain the Magnificant. His stare is probably the worst I've ever seen. Enjoy!

Monday, March 9, 2009

Send in the Clowns....


While doing research for our dolls I noticed a site called http://www.ihateclowns.com/ . I love these people, they are why he was invented. Enjoy the snapshots.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Christian Bale has nothing on her....

This video was leaked from a cameraman while shooting a commercial for us.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Secrets Out...

We are going to be attending our first trade show March 26th, TransWorld's Haunted Attractions Show. There are a lot of things that we have to do before we go. We need curtains, poles, banners, shirts, business cards, order forms, rental trucks, the kitchen sink, apparently we need hotel rooms, food, and water.

Hopefully its all worth it. If not, I'm going to have to have a talk with the kids why Santa left them paper bags and toothpicks. "Sorry kids, remember when you wouldn't eat your peas, well I guess Santa saw that little tantrum you threw...".


Next up....Clowns, everone's scared of clowns, right?

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Updated Website

We have some new updated content on our official site.

www.wakenproductions.com

Come check it out.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Lizzie's Photo Shoot

We had Elizabeth sit for some photos, she got cranky towards the end... little diva



Monday, February 9, 2009

Elizabeth II The Return of the Windows Movie Maker..

Here is our final version of the commercial we are making available to the public, (sounds so secretive). We would love you to comment on it but don't be a smart ass. If you haven't noticed we are doing this on a pretty tight budget and Windows Movie Maker is all we have right now.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

We've been branded...our logo


We want Waken to be a dual threat. We want to hit all areas that someone would say, "Hey Jennifer wouldn't that look great in our Haunted House, Christmas House, St. Patrick's Day house, (that would be a great house, being greeted with a green beer and having leprechauns running all over the place!) ". Our logo needed to reflect the duality so I sketched out a sun and a moon. Black and White, light and dark, good and evil, Batman and Joker etc..It also resembles an eye, the duality we all face on a daily basis...yeah that sounds like a good explanation.

To be honest, it just looked really cool to me and we wanted a cool logo. So we got together with a really great website designer who does work in the Haunt industry -Plug in here- Rob from
http://www.thevillageofdarkness.com/ who understood what we were trying to get and created this fantastic logo.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Film time...Can someone turn the lights off please?

Here is a video of our little angel.....

This is test 1 trying to get the lighting right.

Let us know what you think...

Monday, February 2, 2009

Here is our first Puppet/Doll/Creepy thing....


Elizabeth- Our team found Elizabeth in the basement of the abandoned church “Our Lady of Mercy” west of Highway 131 in Petoskey Mi. She was crated up in an old oak box, stashed in a boarded up alcove. The brass plaque on the box read “Do not open for fear of the devil…by the decree of Arch Bishop Peter Zuni”.
We opened it of course. Now she’s yours, we don’t want her anymore…. Quite frankly she’s a little too creepy. Employees have told us stories that Elizabeth stands, talks, and moves her head from side to side. So at the request of our night shift we have no choice but to sell her.

Here we go..

Well here is the first post to this blog. I hope to continue to update this on the progress of our new business Waken Productions. We are a Halloween animatronic prop company. Our first big test will be in March at the Transworld haunt and attractions show. We have a great product and are very proud of it.