"OSA made a Haunted house this year called the Reapers Tide, and it was spectacular!"-- Lottie Mills, 7th grader
Did you go to the Reapers Tide, OSA’s Haunted House?
The Reapers Tide was a series of rooms, each modeled after spaces you might find on a pirate ship, with a series of jump scares performed by OSA students wearing costumes. The rooms and ships were created and built by Production Design (PD) students.
Clay Farmer, an 8th-grade PD student, described the building process as “[a] communal experience because all the eighth graders are working together, all the high schoolers, all the seventh and sixth graders.”
The way PD built the ship was by splitting up students into teams, each of them working on a different part, or room, of the haunted house. The 6th and 7th graders worked on the lobby/entrance to the haunted house. The 8th graders worked on the exit, and the high schoolers were split into teams to work on the inside rooms.. Each team of high schoolers had a 12th-grade senior leader. They all worked together to create the Reapers Tide you went through or heard about!
Jean François Revon, the head of PD, said that the biggest challenge of the haunted house was how tight and complicated the maze of rooms was. “It has been hard for students to go through it as they bring materials and paint every day,” he said, “but they always make room for each other as they understand the process well.”
The Reapers Tide was a series of rooms, each modeled after spaces you might find on a pirate ship, with a series of jump scares performed by OSA students wearing costumes. The rooms and ships were created and built by Production Design (PD) students.
Clay Farmer, an 8th-grade PD student, described the building process as “[a] communal experience because all the eighth graders are working together, all the high schoolers, all the seventh and sixth graders.”
The way PD built the ship was by splitting up students into teams, each of them working on a different part, or room, of the haunted house. The 6th and 7th graders worked on the lobby/entrance to the haunted house. The 8th graders worked on the exit, and the high schoolers were split into teams to work on the inside rooms.. Each team of high schoolers had a 12th-grade senior leader. They all worked together to create the Reapers Tide you went through or heard about!
Jean François Revon, the head of PD, said that the biggest challenge of the haunted house was how tight and complicated the maze of rooms was. “It has been hard for students to go through it as they bring materials and paint every day,” he said, “but they always make room for each other as they understand the process well.”
Revon was the person who came up with the idea for a haunted house in the first place, back in 2011. He knew that the PD students would love to create a haunted house. He said that“it teaches all aspects of Production Design, developing concept ideas through research, drawing, set build and paint, lighting design, and sound design. There are 14 speakers with ambient sound in this Haunted House, projections design, and project management that the Senior class leads.” And he was right, the PD students loved building the haunted house, and still do today.
The haunted house was very popular among OSA students and teachers. Many of them visited the Reapers tide, and loved it! In a survey, 9 out of 9 students said they enjoyed going through the haunted house! In that same survey, when asked what their favorite part of the haunted house was, it seemed like the most popular room was the kitchen (particularly the butcher), and most had the same answer when asked about the scariest part. Wesleigh Stone, a 7th grade Literary Arts student, said that her favorite part was, “seeing all of the work that these students had put into it.” PD poured their heart into this project, and the result was definitely worth it.
The Reapers Tide is over now, but if you missed it this year, just look out for the next big project PD is doing. Buy your tickets early, because if The Reapers Tide is any indication, it’s going to be great.
The haunted house was very popular among OSA students and teachers. Many of them visited the Reapers tide, and loved it! In a survey, 9 out of 9 students said they enjoyed going through the haunted house! In that same survey, when asked what their favorite part of the haunted house was, it seemed like the most popular room was the kitchen (particularly the butcher), and most had the same answer when asked about the scariest part. Wesleigh Stone, a 7th grade Literary Arts student, said that her favorite part was, “seeing all of the work that these students had put into it.” PD poured their heart into this project, and the result was definitely worth it.
The Reapers Tide is over now, but if you missed it this year, just look out for the next big project PD is doing. Buy your tickets early, because if The Reapers Tide is any indication, it’s going to be great.