Paper trail
by Paraplex
An investigative explainer, a minute long, made the way a desk of evidence looks: photocopied pictures, torn scraps, brush and type, all of it held at twelve images a second. A place is named on a dark sphere while a briefing types itself in; a radar sweeps; a portrait is built from slabs and signed; a grid grows from a point with one word typed over and over; three words are set as steps, across a black band and mirrored into specks; a banknote and a form are cut together and crossed out with a brush; a poster melts into a wave; a question is asked a word at a time and answered behind a block caret; the wrong answer is brushed out and the right one stamped, turned into currency signs and set on black. Seventeen scenes, each a pre-composition, every picture a slot that keeps its print when you drop your own in, every line its own words. It comes with its design system, Broadsheet, eleven effects that put the film's look on anything (Photocopy, Newsprint, Gritty grain, Scrapbook edge, Stop-motion boil, Slice smear, Block build, Erode, Clock wipe, Scatter type and Block type), a kit of paper, scraps, tape, brush, marks, stamps and textures, its own score and seven sound effects.
- Price
- $19
- Shape
- 16:9
- Length
- 1 min
- Category
- Documentary & explainers, Titles & text, Social media
- Published
- 2026-11-12
- Last updated
- 2026-11-13