Production GuideStoryboards
Production Guide
These are some of the special effects storyboards for the episode Brian The Brain. The Swift is close to the final model, but without the cylinders on top, and with curious Supercar-type wings on the command module.
Scene 42, slate 14X
Eagle Two peels off.
Scene 48, slate 15X
Two craft slowly coming together. Compose shot to favour best angle on Swift.
Scene 51, slate 16X
Eagle escorts Swift as they move thro frame. Eagle One comes up to join them.
Scene 52, slate 17X
Dramatic C/U of the underside of Swift. Engines fire as it lands.
Scene 52A, slate 18X
Swift landing on launch pad as distant Eagle circles. Foreground Eagle obliterates frame.
The foreground Eagle doesn't appear.
Scene 54, slate 19X
Swift on launch pad - travel tube extends & connects. _ _ Dust
Scene 56, 63
Travel tube
Scene 67, slate 20X
Swift on launch pad. It blasts off.
Scene 68, slate 21X
Moon in space. Swift enters frame top right and slews across frame - out of control.
Scene 70, slate 22X
Powerful dramatic shot of Swift out of control. Maintain R-L
Oddly not illustrated. The editor swaps this shot before the previous, scene 68.
Scene 87A, slate 26X
Swift travelling thro space. Two Eagles enter frame and escort.
Scene 87B, slate 27X
As Sc.87A. Two further Eagles enter frame to complete escort
Scene 92A, slate 28X
Formation as Sc.87A. Eagles sideslip out of frame left.
Scene 92B, slate 29X
As Sc.87B. Eagles sideslip diagonally out of frame
