Please note this section is for Summer ScareCON only - for details of Aftershock activities, click here
At ScareCON we pride ourselves on our diverse range of workshops and seminars covering all aspects of the scare attraction industry.
Main Room- from 11am
11.00 - Scare Design from an Actor's Point of View - Gary Irving
11.45 - Marketing and promotional Strategies - Tulleys Shocktoberfest
12.30 - Extreme Scare Panel (in association with ScareTrack and Frequent Fear)
1.15 - Behind The Scenes - Developing an Event Company - Immersive Events
2.00 - Creating Successful out of Season events - AtmosFEAR Scare Entertainment
2.45 - Photographing The Fear - Stephen Candy Photography
3.15 - Building the ultimate Home Haunt - Death to the Flippers
4.00 - Putting the Fun into Fear - Hide and Shriek
4.45 - Scare Attractions vs Room Escapes - Special US guest
TBC -Actor Recruitment and Training - Alton Towers
Breakout Suites from 12pm
12.00 - Maze Design and Safety Control Workshop - FunFear
13.00 - Sound Design and Editing for effect Workshop - FunFear
13.30 Alton Towers Scarefest Audition - Register at trade stand
(a very small number of places are available to watch this closed session - please apply in advance)
14.00 - Maze Design and Safety Control Workshop - FunFear
15.00 - Sound Design and Editing for effect Workshop - FunFear
16.00 - Maze Design and Safety Control Workshop - FunFear
Note - these are smaller capacity, practical workshops that will need to be registered for on the day
Aton Towers Scarefest Auditions
Alton Towers Entertainments team are extremely excited to be giving YOU the opportunity to audition at ScareCON to be a part of this year’s Scarefest 2017. They will have a recruitment stand set up from 10.00 AM on the day for anyone who has any questions relating to the audition itself/ or working for the resort for the Scarefest period as either an actor, host or some of the other roles available at the resort. To take part in the audition, please go to the recruitment stand and pop your name down on the registration paper and you will also need to complete an application form. After that, all you need to do it attend the audition and have fun. Don’t worry if you have no experience, we give full training and the audition is ran more like a workshop where all activities will be explained and if there are parts you do not wish to take part in, then stepping aside is of course fine.
Demo Stage from 12pm
Special Effect Make up by Broadwitch Hauntfest
Mask creating and Painting by Mad About Horror
Prosthetics and Silicon Effects by Nevendon Manor Events
See notice board on day for times of next session
Do you have a topic that you think our delegates would love to hear about? We are currently seeking applications for practical and information sessions . Contact us now to discuss your ideas
Speaker Profiles
Gary Irving - Gary has acted in a number of different UK scare events including Screamfest Burton, Evil Rising, and Alton Towers Scarefest. In this session, he looks back on his career and focusses on the practical elements of what it means to be a scare actor, and how actors, designers and owners can work together to create a smooth running attraction.
Stuart Beare - Tulleys Shocktoberfest is the UK's largest scare event and regularly draws in over 45,000 paying customers per year. Tulleys use a number of different marketing and promotional strategies to ensure that guest numbers keep growing year on year.
ScareTrack and Frequent Fear Podcast - The UK's two scare attraction podcasts unit forces to present an open panel discussion about the rise of extreme scare events in the UK. Joining the panel are a hardy bunch of customers who love this form of entertainment, as well as the scare attraction producers who like to push people to their limits physically and mentally.
Joel CampBell - Joel took over the Dana Prison after the MOJ decommissioned it, and has turned it into one of the region’s most popular attractions including seasonal zombie and horror events. He will discuss the pressures of starting and growing an event business, from recruiting actors to health & safety, marketing to designing storylines, developing your team to solidifying your brand.
Jason Karl is Creative Director of AtmosFEAR! Scare Entertainment, who have produced over 200 scare attractions in Europe including Scare Kingdom Scream Park, Screamland, and attractions in Greece and Portugal. Jason will share the ways in which attractions can maximise revenue by opening attractions throughout the year, gaining more footfall, guest engagement and ‘Fear all year’.
Stephen Candy - Stephen Candy has been a professional photographer for over a decade. With a background in both theatre production and customer service, his natural understanding of capturing a live event without disrupting its flow has proven to be ideal for work in the very busy environment of scare attractions.
Gavin and Jason Fox - The "Flippers" came to fame in 2010 with their incredible Time Machine home haunt experience. Since then, their home haunts have got bigger and bigger and in late 2016, they launched their first professional production - 139 Copeland Road. In this session they will talk about their journey and share some of their secrets along the way.
Scott Rose and George Bejko-Cowlbeck - Following a visit to ScareCON in 2015, Scott and George decided to set up Hide and Shriek, and have had a string of glowing reviews for all their events. What makes this team stand out is the dark humour that is included on all their attractions and in this session that will look at the psychology of fear, and how we use humour to overcome it.
Dalton Dale - Big Dreamer Productions is a US company famed for scare attractions that push the boundaries such as The Uninvited: Awakening as well as multiple high throughput room escape adventures. In this session he will talk about the challenges of scare attractions and room escape adventures and share some of the wisdom he has collared over the years.
Ian Haylett - FunFear are technical experts at all elements of scare attraction design and build. Their clients include Tulleys Shoctoberfest, Xtreme Scream Park, The Howl, The Jungle NI and many more. In these hands-on sessions, Ian will be available to talk about any aspect of design, build, electrics, health and safety and more...
Stuart Beare - Tulleys Shocktoberfest is the UK's largest scare event and regularly draws in over 45,000 paying customers per year. Tulleys use a number of different marketing and promotional strategies to ensure that guest numbers keep growing year on year.
ScareTrack and Frequent Fear Podcast - The UK's two scare attraction podcasts unit forces to present an open panel discussion about the rise of extreme scare events in the UK. Joining the panel are a hardy bunch of customers who love this form of entertainment, as well as the scare attraction producers who like to push people to their limits physically and mentally.
Joel CampBell - Joel took over the Dana Prison after the MOJ decommissioned it, and has turned it into one of the region’s most popular attractions including seasonal zombie and horror events. He will discuss the pressures of starting and growing an event business, from recruiting actors to health & safety, marketing to designing storylines, developing your team to solidifying your brand.
Jason Karl is Creative Director of AtmosFEAR! Scare Entertainment, who have produced over 200 scare attractions in Europe including Scare Kingdom Scream Park, Screamland, and attractions in Greece and Portugal. Jason will share the ways in which attractions can maximise revenue by opening attractions throughout the year, gaining more footfall, guest engagement and ‘Fear all year’.
Stephen Candy - Stephen Candy has been a professional photographer for over a decade. With a background in both theatre production and customer service, his natural understanding of capturing a live event without disrupting its flow has proven to be ideal for work in the very busy environment of scare attractions.
Gavin and Jason Fox - The "Flippers" came to fame in 2010 with their incredible Time Machine home haunt experience. Since then, their home haunts have got bigger and bigger and in late 2016, they launched their first professional production - 139 Copeland Road. In this session they will talk about their journey and share some of their secrets along the way.
Scott Rose and George Bejko-Cowlbeck - Following a visit to ScareCON in 2015, Scott and George decided to set up Hide and Shriek, and have had a string of glowing reviews for all their events. What makes this team stand out is the dark humour that is included on all their attractions and in this session that will look at the psychology of fear, and how we use humour to overcome it.
Dalton Dale - Big Dreamer Productions is a US company famed for scare attractions that push the boundaries such as The Uninvited: Awakening as well as multiple high throughput room escape adventures. In this session he will talk about the challenges of scare attractions and room escape adventures and share some of the wisdom he has collared over the years.
Ian Haylett - FunFear are technical experts at all elements of scare attraction design and build. Their clients include Tulleys Shoctoberfest, Xtreme Scream Park, The Howl, The Jungle NI and many more. In these hands-on sessions, Ian will be available to talk about any aspect of design, build, electrics, health and safety and more...
