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The Making of
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Promotion
I started with six double-wall corrugated cardboard squares that were roughly six by six feet...I spray-painted them to give a variegated base for the sponge painting...
After the spray paint dried(not too long on a warm, sunny California day!), I took a large car-washing sponge, tore the edges so I had no linear edges, then watered down some black tempera paint and randomly painted the blotches to simulate stone...
I also had to sponge paint the nine-foot background paper I had so that I could use it for the rock formations jutting out from the monolith...I painted about 24 linear feet of this paper(ugh!)...
I made the disc out of a three-by-three foot square of one-and-a-half inch thick Styrofoam and carved it out so it would be three-dimensional. First I had to enlarge the logo by hand onto butcher paper from the poster, then trace it onto the foam...
Still in the process of carving with X-Acto knives...Yes - it took a long time!...
After it took even more time to paint the logo, since the acrylic paint soaks into the Styrofoam, you know, it was finally finished...
Here is the monolith before all of the leaves were attached. You have a better view of the rocks by themselves...
Since the monolith is about twelve feet tall, I had to use the eighteen-foot ladder in the theatre lobby to arrange the leaves at the top and to attach and arrange the paper for the rocks. It took quite awhile with a few extra hands to assemble the monolith. Not only did the six cardboard squares need to be assembled, but the triangles for the top and bottom had to be attached...
...and the final Lost World display in the main lobby of Century Complex in Sacramento. For more images of the final look, see the previous page here...
