Alien Invasion layout for a Corner Lot

Photorealistic evening photograph of a two-story suburban house on a corner lot, 60 ft of street frontage with a 25 ft front setback, photographed from the street intersection at a 45 degree diagonal angle so that both the front face and the side face of the house are visible in the same frame, camera height 5.5 ft. The yard is decorated in a alien invasion theme. Something landed on the lawn and it is still here. A saucer low over the grass, a beam of green light, and small gray visitors standing very still in places they should not be. Decorations, in position: 1. The star: a lit green inflatable alien sitting cross-legged with a huge head and black almond eyes, glowing from inside, 5.1 ft tall. Dead center on the front walk, 8 to 10 ft back from the porch steps. Pick something with actual sides to it, not a flat cutout. One of your two streets is going to be looking at the back of this. 2. Sidekick, left: a small green alien peering out from behind a tree trunk, only its head and hands showing, 1.2 ft tall. This one hangs rather than stands, so it wants a tree trunk, a post or a fence at about head height. It also does not light up, so put one of the green spotlights at the foot of whatever it is peering round. Unlit it disappears completely after dark, which rather defeats it. 3. Sidekick, right: a tall narrow metal warning sign reading Proceed At Your Own Risk with an alien on it, fixed to a porch post at head height, 1 ft tall. This one is not a lawn object, so do not put it on the lawn. Two zip ties onto a garden stake, a fence picket or the mailbox post, at about chest height, right where the walk meets the sidewalk. Face it up the walk rather than at the road: a warning works on the person deciding whether to come closer, and every visitor passes within a foot of that spot. Eight by twelve inches reads at three feet and at no distance beyond that, which is the whole reason it goes there and nowhere else. 4. Path and perimeter lights: 2 of them, a line of short stakes throwing sickly green light up the edges of a path, the color of something radioactive rather than something growing, 1.3 ft tall. Both edges of the front walk, then keep the line going along the side yard. Do not stop at the corner of the house. This run is the thing that ties your two street faces together. 5. The corner moment: two small staked floodlights throwing green up the front of the house and into the trees, heads angled, 0.7 ft tall. Green, and green only, in this theme. Aim one up the wall of the house from the corner and leave the other at the foot of whatever the scout is peering round. Green light climbing a wall is the tractor beam doing its work without an actual beam, and it costs thirty dollars. 6. Roofline and porch: 2 of them, a run of tiny blue-white bulbs following a roofline, cold and bright against the dark like frost catching a streetlight, 0.2 ft tall. One continuous run along both street-facing rooflines. Skipping the side roofline is the number one corner-lot regret. 7. Side yard scene: a wide flattened ring in a lawn at night, the grass laid over in one direction so it catches a low green light from the side, 0 ft tall. Put it where the plan marks the secondary scene, but treat that marker as the center of the ring rather than the footprint: it is twelve feet across and wants clear grass all round. Keep it off the walk and away from the flower beds, and light it from the far side at ground level so the laid-over grass catches the light. Lit from above it disappears. 8. Under the porch roof: a small square metal road sign reading Area 51 with an alien on it, screwed flat to a door or a post, 0.7 ft tall. On the wall beside the door rather than on the floor, at eye height, straight rather than tilted. This is the cheapest plan in the theme and the porch is the one place where nine dollars can do as much work as ninety: at arm's length nobody can tell what a prop cost, and a sign that says the government has been here does more for the story than a small figure standing in the dark would. Do not light it separately. Whatever is already lighting your door is the right amount. Shot at dusk with the sky still faintly blue, every lit decoration switched on and brighter than anything else in the frame, warm light spilling onto the lawn. Palette: #7BC043, #2B2118, #8A6FBF, #D6E85A. Nothing floats; every piece sits on the ground at the stated distance. Scale reference: the front door is 80 inches tall.