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NOVA: How do you build a sequence like this, how do you lay it out in the
beginning?BURTT: A storyboard is a document which shows each shot in the sequence of the film. And it's designed to include all the relationships between objects you're going to be filming and where the characters are standing. It will have stage direction and indications along with it which talk about whether this is a special effects shot or animation or a live action sequence. NOVA: The set was in Los Angeles, wasn't it? BURTT: The set was on a stage in Los Angeles, and was comprised of quite a number of miniature buildings, all of them 1/24th scale, which only the upper parts of the buildings were necessary to construct. So generally the buildings were ten and twelve feet off the studio floor.  This storyboard shows some of
the tracer bullets hitting Kong, and it will indicate in the breakdown of the
production that these are to be optical effects. We're not going to have real
machine guns or real bullets being fired. So that we know in this particular
shot from the storyboard that it calls for some special animation which will be
added after the fact, after we shoot the shot of Kong himself. So that the
storyboard has many uses. It's a breakdown of how the film will look, shot by
shot. It's a breakdown of the different processes. From this storyboard we
can determine the different work processes necessary to go about creating the
sequence. 
Some shots will be miniatures entirely. Some shots will be live
action with real full size airplanes and fire trucks and people. And in a shot
like this, we will have animation effects added such as these tracer bullets
which are coming from the airplanes at Kong and they of course will be
animation which will be rendered after the initial shot is photographed on the
stage.Photo Credits: (1) Peter Iovino copyright 1996 WGBH Educational Foundation, (2-3) copyright 1996 WGBH Educational Foundation. Theater Release Dates | Behind the Scenes |