MANAN NEVER WRITES ANYTHING. He thinks it and Viveka puts it in the air, because Viveka can read him. IT IS A BOARD IN A NEW MEDIUM. The three lines hold the CENTRE of the display and the pictures are pushed to the edges: the body at the far left, the gauge at the far right, and nothing else floating anywhere, because a board has one thing on it at a time. THE LINES ARE: FATIGUE IS IN THE MUSCLE / THE FUEL IS SPENT / THE TANK IS EMPTY THEY DO NOT ARRIVE TOGETHER. Each line appears under the line being spoken, the way a highlighter runs across a sentence in a book, so the display fills as the argument is made and the third line lands on the last word. That is why an EMPTY PLATE ships with this frame: the display with the body and the gauge in place and no writing at all, so the lines can be animated in one at a time. Read the left board down and then the right and you have the whole film.

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Empty display, no writingThe identical frame with the three lines removed and nothing put in their place. Animate the lines onto this one at a time; nothing else moves by a hair.

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The compositeThe two layers together, as it appears on the storyboard.

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