Week 4: Texture [Sierra C.]

I went to Knott's Scary Farm for the very first time this year with my siblings and the first thing we did once we got in was watch the stage-show "The Hanging". Leading up to the show actually starting, I took the first image of the bone projections. It was a little gimmicky but it stuck to the Halloween theme and by using the purple lights, it felt a bit more on the eerie and unnatural side. When the show actually started and the texture of the lights changed to what's shown in the second image, it felt a lot creepier and really set the mood for what I thought the show was going to be, especially with the introduction of the robed figures chanting and walking about with torches. What I love about these particular texture choices during this show is that it gives a specific imagery that sets you up and tricks you into believing you know what to expect from the show: something darker, eerie and quintessentially Halloween. It couldn't be farther from the truth. "The Hanging", unbeknownst to me and my family, is humorous, inappropriate and highly satirical, and made all the more ironic by the use of the Halloween imagery during the pre-show and at the beginning.