ABSTRACT
Directing a movie is hardly a one-person job. On top of every consideration that must be accounted for on the set of a Hollywood film, directors who pulled together full-motion video (FMV) games had to accumulate dozens upon dozens of hours of extra and vital footage, having to account for every possible action that players choose to take, or not take. In the era of FMV games, directing a blockbuster production such as Sierra’s The Beast Within—aka Gabriel Knight 2—was an equally momentous task. Will Binder had years of experience when he took the helm of The Beast Within, but he could hardly expect to pull off the whole production on his own. Randy Littlejohn was the director of photography on The Beast Within, a fancy term for “the person responsible for bringing the director’s cinematic vision to life”.
