Storyboard Scene 13
			Scene13 panel 1: Upshot of Fritz light pulsates from the table.				Scene 13 panel 1: Fritz rears back. Fritz: “Yes! YES!!”
			This upshot is used so that you still can’t see what it is that he’s working on... it could still be a monster or something like that. The point of the upshot is to hide it from the audience until the last possible moment so that the gag has more punch. I have him with a pencil in his hand but in the animation I’m hoping that it won’t be noticeable, just a subliminal thing that only repeated viewing at a frame by frame rate will show. (Yeah, like that’s ever going to happen.) I know it sounds like goofy stuff but you still have to think about it as you’re planning out your story. Not the fact that someone might watch the film frame by frame someday, but rather that the basic continuity be sustained. Since the payoff scene is the last scene, it would be weird if all of a sudden in scene 16 he’s holding a pencil while in scenes 13, 14, and 15 he’s not. There are people in live action who do this for the production. They’re called continuity people. They make sure that if the character has their hair combed in a certain way, or if they’re holding a cigarette in their left hand that in the following scene, those things are the same. Some people like to make it a game to try to spot any continuity flaws in a film, many films have lots of continuity flaws and they’re hilarious to see. The great classic Plan 9 From Outer Space is a perfect example of bad continuity, check it out sometime. Watch for the day then night then day sequence with the police car. Also look at the number of lights on the top of the police car too. There’s lots more where that came from.
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