Paper trail: everything it comes with
Paper trail is a film and the desk it was made on. Every scene is a pre-composition you can move, trim or lift into another film; its pictures are slots that keep their print when you drop your own in; its papers, scraps, brush, stamps and sounds are in your Assets panel; and its look is eleven effects in your Effects panel, with its design system, Broadsheet.
17 scenes, 74 assets, 8 sounds, 11 effects, the Broadsheet design system.
Scenes & pre-compositions
- The place: A sphere, one large word cut away, four lines on the sphere, a briefing that types itself and a torn strip of coast. Retype every line; the sphere and the strip are slots.
- The sweep: A radar: hub, rings, a grid, a needle turning once every two seconds, coordinates typed in two corners.
- The engineer: A portrait built from slabs and signed, a globe that opens on a band of color, four typed lines. Drop your own portrait on the slot.
- The anatomy: A grid that grows from a point: two pictures, a title in three faces, and one word typed over and over, broken a different way each time.
- Steps: Seven letters in heavy serif capitals, set as three steps.
- Band: Eight tall letters across the edge of a black band, light where they cross it, their bars stretching.
- Echo: Twelve spaced letters, mirrored under themselves and eaten away to specks.
- The cost: A banknote and a form cut together, a label that becomes torn tags, a pie, and four brush strokes that cross it all out.
- The poster: A dark card with ink of one color on a marbled plate; its lines arrive warped; all of it melts into a wave with a tall word on it.
- The question: Ten numeral tiles, a box that types the question's heading, the frame stepping back with its tones turned over, and nine words through the box.
- The answer: An answer typed behind a block caret with the question round the frame's edges; retyped as one word, which is brushed out.
- The real one: One heavy word and eleven numbered balls that pop in; the lens pushes into one.
- The globe: A globe, half solid and half stipple, squares punched in it, and a label typed with marks.
- The founder: Two portraits built from blocks, a pair of hands, a signature and a wash of one color. Three picture slots.
- Two words: Letters that arrive each in a face of its own and settle into one line.
- The stamp: The answer stamped small, its letters hopping, then swapped for currency signs; the frame turns over and rests as a black label.
- The line: The last line, typed over an underline on the dark ground.
Assets
- Pictures: 9 files
- Graphics: 14 files
- Numeral tiles: 10 files
- Paper: 5 files
- Torn paper & tape: 7 files
- Brush & ink: 11 files
- Marks: 8 files
- Stamps: 3 files
- Print textures: 7 files
Music & sound effects
- Paper trail score
- Typewriter key
- Typewriter run
- Paper tear
- Brush stroke
- Stamp
- Slice
- Radar ping
Design system
Broadsheet: A newsroom's desk: gray paper, one ink, photocopied pictures, torn scraps and brush, and five quiet colors used one to a scene.