
Randell Vallero, Adobe Stock - Vjom
Projecting video on a fog screen creates an
awesome ghostly effect. It’s not a novel idea
in 2020; there are commercial fog screens for
$10,000 (I did find one on Alibaba for $4,000) and
some excellent DIY fog screen projects posted
online. But none of these met the criteria I
wanted; they were either too expensive, too heavy
(400lbs!), or too impractical for a simple haunted
house effect. I needed a fog screen that was:
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Cheap to build, from everyday materials that
are easy to source
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Lightweight enough to hang over Halloween
revelers’ heads without a scaffold
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Adaptable to indoor/outdoor conditions such as ...