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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.

Paper trail, $19