Alien Invasion layout for a Deep Narrow

Photorealistic evening photograph of a two-story colonial house on a deep narrow, 42 ft of street frontage with a 55 ft front setback, photographed from the sidewalk at the front lot line looking straight up the long walk toward the house, showing the full depth of the yard, 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. Two thirds of the way up the walk, not down by the sidewalk and not parked against the porch. Go bigger than you would on a normal lot. At 55 ft back, a 6 ft piece disappears. 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. The approach 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 sides of the walk for the last 36 ft up to the door. You do not need to light the whole 55 ft. Starting the run partway up pulls the eye toward the house instead of stopping it at the sidewalk. 5. 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. Gutter line and porch. Use the biggest bulb you are willing to buy. At this distance small twinkle lights turn into a faint smudge. 6. The halfway moment: 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. 7. 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.