Astronuts - "Short End of the Stick"
Action Scene Reference Diagrams
May 25, 2005
Act Two of "Short End of the Stick" features an action scene during which four of our heroes take part in a short tiff with six evil robots. To ensure that the action proceeds in a logical way, these reference images were created.
This image shows the positions of the four heroes with respect to the six robots. The scene takes place in a large passage beneath the surface of an alien planet.
- Shot #239: Medium shot of Chip as he fires his flazer gun to screen left.
- Shot #240: Medium shot of robot R1 as the flazer beam impacts it, causing robot R1 to explode.
- Shot #243: Full-length shot of Flotsam as he rolls into view from screen left, and then fires his flazer gun to screen right.
- Shot #244: Medium shot of robot R6 as the flazer beam impacts it, causing robot R6 to explode.
- Shot #244a: Full-length shot of Six as she raises her right hand and shoots a lightning bolt to screen left.
- Shot #244b: Medium shot of robot R3 as the lightning bolt impacts it, causing robot R3 to explode.
- Shot #241: Medium shot of Thugg as she fires her photron cannon twice to screen left.
- Shot #241a: Full-length shot of robot R3 as both photron cannonballs miss the robot.
- Shot #241b: Medium or close-up shot of Thugg as she growls.
- Shot #241c: Full-length shot of robot R3 as the two photron cannonballs climb upward, and then veer back and arc as the camera follows them until the photron cannonballs impact robots R4 and R5, which explode.
- Shot #244c: Full-length shot of Flotsam as he rolls into view from screen right, and then fires his flazer gun to screen left.
- Shot #244d: Medium shot of robot R3 as the flazer beam impacts it, causing robot R3 to explode.
