Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The haunted hotel that breeds engineers
Technology: The Gravesend Inn: A Haunted Hotel is an attraction built every year by entertainment technology students at CUNY in Brooklyn, NY. Instead of scaring the audience, it's meant to inspire high school students to go to college and study technology.
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This attraction is a fantastic idea and I am hoping that CMU follows suit and does something similar. With so much technological and design talent on campus, a project like a haunted house is more than feasible. I personally would not go through the house as just looking at the previews sent chills down my spine, but the idea is still brilliant and I commend CUNY for coming up with and executing it so well. Getting people into tech is also a great cause/reason for creating the attraction. I also would like to bring up the point that there is still a lacking amount of gender equality in the field of tech, and I wonder if there is anything this haunted house idea (or a similar one) could do to also attract more females towards technology/engineering. A haunted house may not be the best way to achieve that because of females like me who cannot even come close to horror/a haunted house (though I do know plenty of women who love horror). I mostly say this because I believe that the younger you are when you are exposed to tech, the more likely you will either like/dislike it. So, an attraction that maybe allows interaction and targets elementary to high school students would be a great way to achieve this goal (and now I will be spending my spare time thinking about all the ways I could do this or push a CMU course to do something like this).
The haunted hotel is an actual experience! This makes me both happy and sad. I have been talking about creating a fully immersive hotel experience that would follow you from the airport through check in and throughout your stay. All of the maids and attendants would be themed and interact with you as if they were hiding some big secret that it was your job to uncover. I am obviously in love with hyper realistic fully immersive experiences. I love the idea that this experience is out there for people to experience. I can only imagine it’s level of complexity being that they put up the installation once every year. I think that it would do a lot better for itself if it were open year round. It doesn’t limit the amount of people coming to experience it or the throughput of the experience. I would absolutely love to experience this.
This is a very neat practical class project. I am a big fan of learning by doing, and projects where you create experiences like this are very very exciting to me. One of my favorite projects at the SOD was the Arcade project freshman year, which brings in storytelling, technical skills, and immersive theater together in such a great way. That said, if CUNY can do this I would love to see what we could pull off if given the time and resources to do so.
On a different note, I can't help wondering about the logistics of this. Do they have a building they use so little they can knock it out of commission for what I can assume is at least a month just for this event? If not, how do they continue to use the building while it is occupied with the haunted house?
I think that this is such a cool idea for both a class project and a way to get students interested in a career and a major in the arts. I really liked that they would sometimes shut down the haunted hotel and answer questions about the project and college. I think the question and answer session would change seeing some cool attractions and wanting to do something similar into a real option having met some of the people who made those attractions. It would also be an interesting challenge when designing to haunted hotel to be considering what will be cool or frightening enough to impress teenagers with your schoolwork.
I got so extremely excited watching this video. I absolutely adore theme parks, anD the technology behind them. I really hope I have some opportunity to do this during my time at Carnegie Mellon. It was really nice that they had a double bladed educational sword. The entertainment students working with the real live audience, and the students being exposed to something new, and fresh, not to mention entertainment.
This is cool! Everyone slowly learns that theater is actually just training camp for the real entertainment world of corporate events and themed entertainment, and sometimes that is unpleasant to learn if you think that you have to abandon art to go into a field with real money. An outreach program like this could be a really good thing for creating students that have the drive and adaptability of theater students, but without having the need to actually do theater. Every industry could use a few more theater people in it, I will say that I thought their execution for some parts of the haunted house were lacking, if it was supposed to be an exercise in tech integration, that cool, but I don’t think it was a very good haunted house. I feel like the whole experience would have been more valuable if they had some real entertainment industry people come in a talk, not just the PM at the college.
That’s so cool. Being able to work on a project that is different than theater and sill be supported by faculty and being given the opportunity to learn more. I feel like the Arcade project that we do here is similar to that. We are given the opportunity to do something bigger and then it is open to the public It was an amazing feeling to be able to show our work and get a reaction form audience members. The only thing that I wish that project had that the haunted house project at SUNY has is the student access to resources and learning. It is so cool that the program at SUNY allows the students to learn about new technology while implementing a design. This is a project that sounds very interesting to me. I wish this is something that CMU did. I feel like it has a lot of potential for learning new technology, new design process, and the chance to show off what we can do.
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