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LARRY's POV: We enter a
long, low ceilinged tunnel.
NO TUNNEL |
| SHOT 70 |
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| Tunnel Tracking Shot:
keeping up with LARRY we see him quickly look back. |
| SHOT 71 |
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| His
POV: The MONSTER is quickly catching up to us: it is VERY
close behind. |
| SHOT 72 |
1s |
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| Tracking shot: (same as
71) LARRY quickly looks forward, and begins to accelerate. |
| SHOT 73 |
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| The MONSTER starts
to recede behind LARRY. His face assumes seriousness. |
| SHOT 74 |
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| LARRY's POV: We leavethe
Tunnel and return to the Canyons. We approach a corner turning
left.
NO TUNNEL |
| SHOT 75 |
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I was originally going to have much of the chase take place
in an enclosed tunnel with roofing made from transparent coloured LEGO panels,
like an enclosed freeway. L would scream through flashing zones of light and
dark with it bearing down behind him. I dropped it because of a lack
of a motor drive for the camera - I felt I couldn't get suitably low exposures
with the filtered light without losing my precious depth of field. Shots 70
to 75 were dropped, then reinstated minus the tunnel 'cos they were simply
too good to lose.
The original tunnel concept was to be a transition to a medina
of crooked LEGO back alleys, with a maze of arches, balconies, minerrets,
stairs, overpasses and windows whipping past. No explanation or further mention
would be made, but it was to be an excuse to really play around with foregrounds,
backgrounds and strange spaces that you'd only notice if you went through
it frame by frame. (Video rental was the new big thing back then. Old cult
films and TV shows were being seriously rediscovered for the first time. Geeks
were discovering the joys of stepping through Star Wars and ALIEN on their
VCR's. And much of the Magic Portal was made knowing fully well that some
people would have as much fun going through it frame by frame as straight.)
Again, resources were super tight and I resorted to plain old blocky canyons
again - quite simply, there just weren't enough architectural bits to make
a worthwhile long shot.
Last modified Thu, May 27 2004 by Lindsay
Fleay
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