How to Not Cancel Halloween🎃

How we hold a Halloween Party at our Online Office!

Telling scary stories Ovice Official

Although not traditionally celebrated in my country, Halloween has always been my favorite celebration. In recent years, many people, mainly teenagers, became interested in hosting and going to Halloween parties, so it’s kind of a trend nowadays. To be honest with you, I’m not a big fan of huge parties, but I’m a sucker for horror movies and dressing up.
Last year, we hosted a small Halloween party at the office and it was pretty fun. This year, we took it online. How we did it? Cream puff.

Pick a good haunted platform

This one was pretty easy. There are tons of platforms which you can use to host parties or gatherings, but if you want your party or event to be as close to reality as possible, you should look for a virtual platform like Ovice where you can see what your colleagues are doing at the office even when they’re off-camera or not talking to you by voice. The best part is that you can customize your own background layout to make your workspace look more creepy. The service offers many layouts with affordable deals but you can always upload your own layout if you’re good at designing.
Below, you can see the before and after of our workspace layout at Ovice.

Ovice Official lab-modern-white layout design for 200 people ¥20,000/month ___________________________________Ovice Official Halloween custom design

Invitation Template found on Canva Team

Send a freaky invitation

Halloween invitations are always a frightfully good way to kick off your bash in a fun spooky style.
I made sure to provide the date of the party and I sent it to my colleagues on Slack.

Dressing up

When the time of the party was about to start, each one of us changed their profile picture on Ovice to a scary version and also changed our names to create a more creepy vibe full of suspense. Some of us did Halloween makeup, others dressed up as scary characters, and the rest used Snap Camera to add a Halloween filter to their face, and it was pretty convincing.

Scary avatars found on Twitter @Ovice_ Halloween party Ovice Official

Plan your Halloween party schedule

Frankly, it’s the first time that I host a Halloween party online. The only thing that kept me worried is that people would get bored and start muting their mics. Luckily, I thought about making short fun activities to do during the party to keep everyone distracted and most importantly scared to their bones. Some of the activities that we did were:

• Telling short scary stories with creepy background music.
• “Try not to get scared challenge”.
• Sharing our Halloween best off.

Watching jumpscares videos Ovice Official

I normally don’t get scared easily, but trust me, having to listen to loud monster screams and jumpscares while everyone is talking in a freaky tone on Ovice got me really horrified! It was a fun experience though!
Comment down below the name of the person who looks the scariest.