"This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that 'The War of The Worlds' has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo!" (http://jeff560.tripod.com/script.html)Radio, film, and theater legend Orson Welles spoke those words at the end of his Halloween 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, as a way of taking off the costume and restoring order after a moment of controlled chaos.
I'd like to think I'm doing much the same, but in this case, the "controlled chaos" was much more artificial. It was intended to be the online equivalent of a "Halloween Horror Nights" event at Universal Studios, but that kind of got lost in the translation from concept to post.
What the heck! I'm perfectly satisfied with it. This past October has seen me at my most productive as far as the Museum is concerned, and it's been a learning experience.
I learned how to use GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) to create many of the visual effects, like the background art and the subtle "video distortion" on the Bug images. My skills are still fairly rudimentary, but it was a lot of fun to learn, and I look forward to furthering those skills in the future.
I also learned how to create an HTML "mouseover" effect, and while it only worked once, I'm proud of it. ("Storm of the Century" would have had one, but it just didn't work.)
All in all, the experiment wasn't entirely successful, but I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas and bringing them to life.
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