Welcome to the spooky world of Halloween Fantasia
October 22, 2015
Hold tight and get yourself ready to begin a bizarre adventure with ghosts, spiders, bats, and robots.
A visual performance show, Live Spooktaneous Fantasia Halloween Special, occupied Fujitsu planetarium with many families and kids on Friday, Oct. 16.
It was dark and red inside of the planetarium. Once everyone took seats, the author of the show, performer J-Walt introduced himself. He showed everyone his hand-made electronic device, which allowed him to draw and add characters on the screen in real time.
He drew three pumpkin figures, whose faces represented the theme of the show: scary, scared, and happy. As they started moving by themselves with funky and up-tempo music, the audience gave applause.
J-Walt began drawing dead trees on the waste land. Skulls, crows, dead leaves and flowers started dancing to the dark cinematic music.
Three ghosts came out of the black ruined mansion drawn at the center of the field and danced as if they were fooling around with the audience.
“Do we dare to go in? Ghosts are outside,” J-Walt said.
J-Walt started slowly zooming in as if going inside the mansion, and then suddenly a big, grotesque heart showed up on the screen.
Then the screen blacked out, and a woman’s cry of terror rumbled. Kids started crying.
By the end of the show, the performance became happier when little light bands were thrown in to the audience. Kids were smiling, each of them with more than three bands each.
“I’m glad it worked out!” J-Walt said. “I’ve never done a scary show before, so that was something new.”
J-Walt, has been presenting visual performance at theaters and schools since 2007. He said the performances has been developing because he has added new techniques and ideas.
More laser shows presented by him are coming on Thanksgiving and Christmas at the planetarium.
If you only know the planetarium as the place to study astronomy, you should come and experience this amazing entertainment for as little as $9.