GTA 5 - the first minute

Version 1 only, with the notes applied. Watch it with the sound off first - if the story comes through that way, the edit is doing its job.

What changed since the three-way test

• The background no longer moves at all. Every shot used to restart the same push in, so across a cut it snapped back to normal and started again - the same gesture on a loop. It is locked now.
• The movement moved to the foreground. Each piece placed over the backdrop gets one slow gesture - a push in, a pull back, a drift left or right, or a slight sway - and the gesture cycles shot to shot so no two in a row do the same thing.
• The "one thing" frame was redrawn. The floating forearm is gone; it is a single cartridge standing alone now.
• Versions 2 and 3 are dropped.

How it is built

• 26 beats, storyboarded by hand from the story - each one names what the frame has to show, not which noun was spoken.
• 30 illustrations drawn in the GTA cover-art style for this video: the snowbound bank, the sniper on the roof, two down in the snow, the handshake in the storm, the badge, the grave, the mansion.
• The GTA 6 key art and the character portraits are the real official Rockstar assets, not drawings.

Say the word and I build the rest of the video in this grammar.