His POV: we see the last tyre from his car roll down into the PORTAL. (Maybe shot quickly wheels about to face the MONSTER, as though the camera imitates Larry's head turning back to ace the MONSTER.) SHOT 119 1.5s	Suddenly, MONSTER starts up and drives over us. It roars something resembling "Food!" SHOT 120 (119b?) 1.5s	LARRY is driven over. As the wheels pass... SHOT 121a 1s
...he picks himself up, shakes his head and looks amazed. He looks up at the PORTAL. SHOT 121b 2s	His POV: the MONSTER disappearing down the tunnel. SHOT 122 2s	Picture a serene animation table with set. Animating making movement; the PORTAL is having its colour changed. Abruptly, the MONSTER roars out and chaos ensues. SHOT 123 4s

Its interesting going through these old "final" storyboards, since its pretty clear the film evolved right throughout the shooting process. While animation is a process where you definitely should try to preplan and thrash out as much as you can before you start, there is still some evolution - especially if you're practically growing up with a long term production like this one. A lot of the angles here were shuffled around to suit production purposes.

I have no idea how on earth I could have animated shot 119 as originally conceived: it was originally going to be a "hand held" whip pan from L's perspective looking at the tyre rolling into the Portal and then turning around to watch the monster drive overhead. I think this might have been a forlonly hopeful idea when I was experimenting with using an endoscope for the production. Shot 122 became a side shot, simply because (and I still quite can't work out how I didn't realize this at the time) the Monster is about double the width of the Magic Portal.

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Last modified Thu, May 27 2004 by Lindsay Fleay