Storyboard, Dream Weaver (215)

Greetings again from the seaQuest MPS blog, and today is a storyboard from the second season episode Dream Weaver.  This is a storyboard by Mark Simon, whose book I mentioned yesterday.  It covers the scene where Dagwood first finds Ortiz hiding from the alien, then smells the alien, he and the alien growl at each other and fight, before the alien gets shot multiple times and just wanders away.

In sum, Dream Weaver was a rip off homage to movies like Predator.  In the episode, special guest star Mark Hamill is an alien refugee who is being hunted by a predator-like alien whose embryo pod, for some reason, attaches to seaQuest.  What follows are lots of dark corridors and hunting, with a few jumps, fights, and laser blasts.  Not bad, not great, very middle of the road.

Below the jump, higher resolution photos of the storyboard and some comparisons to the shots in the finished episode.




Close-up on the storyboard...

Storyboard to final shot comparisons.

A lot of shots in the episode are framed much tighter than those on the storyboard..

 Sniff, sniff...

Again, the final shot is a bit tighter, with less revealed of the alien, which is probably a good thing as that costume was not the most convincing...

 Push, push...

I wish the final episode had a shot framed like this, with the alien in the foreground and a clear shot of seaQuest personal running up firing guns, it looks so dynamic.  But, the final episode only has the alien being shot and then a near white-out image of the crew running up...

Next time on the seaQuest MPS blog: A signed photo of Captain Bridger.