Cretaceous Place - Dinosaur Attack

This was the last of my access TV projects before I hit Salem State. This was an interesting project - somehow I managed to get a $900 budget. Most of that went toward costumes and a car rental. If the money were taken away I think this would have come out pretty much the same.

Trying to schedule such a complex production with trained actors is tough; this was almost impossible. By the end of the project - six months from the approved budget to the premiere - I was so sick of it I wasn't sure I EVER wanted to watch it again. Let's see - I think two characters grew beards, one disappears completely, and the story is so incomprehensible I have to go in and do a news broadcast so people can understand what the hell is going on.

On the flip side, with cardboard, a chromakey wall, and a rubber hat we manage to pull a lot of cool visuals off.

Visually this is a quantum leap over what I was doing on TimmyRider. BATV was blessed with a beautiful chromakey wall. This sequence features a rubber hat (yep, that's the dinosaur), and a multi-layered chromakey. We first shot the road, then shot the dinosaur in front of the road, then we shot Sean Jamison in front of that.

This sequence remains one of my personal favorites in all of my work. I don't think I visually surpassed this until the rose monologues.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Jurassic
• Park
• spoof
• comedy
• cheap
• special
• effects

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When I watch this, I can't help but be amazed that the stuff we spend nothing - and I mean nothing on - looks better than most of the stuff we put the money into (the exception being the Tracker).