Project Description
Escape: Freak Circus, stage design
Insomniac, 2014
To celebrated Halloween in a fitting manner, Insomniac developed the Escape Festival at the Nos Event Centre in San Bernardino. This sinister festival is the largest Halloween electronic dance music festival in Southern California, and as Halloween specialist Leisure Expert Group was asked to design and produce the main stage for it. The theme of the festival was: Escape from this bewitched circus is impossible, which was translated into stage design. The DJ booth was placed inside the mouth of a terrifying clown face and was latterly wrapped in the clowns’ tongue. The clown was framed by the Theatre of the Damned and a gigantic circus trailer on wheels.
Services
Concept Design
Experience design
Artist impressions
Schematic Design
Elevations
Dimensioning
Materialization & Color Coding
Stage Design
Rigging design
Inflatable design
SFX design
Detail Design
Facility integration
Signage and wayfinding
Printfiles
Concept Design
Video production
Video content
To create a full experience for the guests at the festival, special video content was produced to support the music and performances. The video content was shown on large screens implemented within the stage and showed hallucinatory images that seamlessly fit in with the overall theme of the festival.