Golden Gate Comic Con, Chapter 4: Pages 17-18
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PANEL 1: Same setting/layout as the last panel of the previous page. He feels up and down the energy wall, cringing slightly at the electrical sparks that hits his fingertips. You can see him trying to piece together what it is and what's going on.
ADAM: Huh. Just like that weird personal force field thing I dealt with at the airport.
PANEL 2: Cut to a shot of the energy wall a couple of feet above the top of Adam's head, a second after the action of the previous panel. A rectangle emerges in the center of the panel view, with the words "Staff Only Allowed Beyond This Point."
PANEL 3: We move to a close-up shot of Mr. de Connick's face a few beats later, reading the message above him. You can see the glint of understanding hit his face, along with a brief chuckle connected to the context from his past.
ADAM [Cont.]: Nice! The name still sucks though...
PANEL 4: Same setting/layout as the previous panel. His attention is pulled back down to eye level by the sound of someone calling from the end of the hallway. You can see the young man's body language shift toward a mild curiosity at the off-panel person in question.
REPORTER [Off-Panel, to Adam]: It's better than 'ZonPo, that's for sure.
PANEL 5: Cut back to the same setting as the top of the panel, just flipped 180 degrees to show Adam's back to the reader and the reporter we heard in the previous panel. A brown-skinned woman wearing a pair of jeans and a T-Shirt of Oakland's eSports team, the Heart of the City.
REPORTER [Cont., with a courteous smile]: What can I do for ya, mi compadre marron?
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PANEL 1: We move to a shot of Adam, who's taken a couple of steps back from the energy wall; the background behind him showing a section of the hallway he just passed. He looks over the reporter with a steadily growing sense of anxiety over the reporter's possible reaction as he speaks.
ADAM [quick nod, to the Reporter]: Yeah, umm...my broth--cousin was a reporter years ago. Back when it was the San Francisco Chronicle. I was wondering if there was a backlog of, um--past articles from that time I can search through.
PANEL 2: Cut back to the reporter in the same setting as the last panel of the previous panel, though with a more zoomed-in layout than that aforementioned panel. She appears at least somewhat receptive to the request, and curious in case it may be some type of mistake on the young man's part.
REPORTER [curious, to Adam]: What was his name?
PANEL 3: Back to Adam in the same setting/layout as the top of the page. As he continues on with the story, you can see a little more confidence in his eyes as it moves toward a more truthful foundation.
ADAM: Adam de Connick. He worked over in the Arts section, mostly interviews and the occasional nerdy beat stuff. I was hoping to surprise him with one of his first articles put up in a nice...picture frame.
PANEL 4-5: A two-part set of panels that moves back to the reporter in the same setting/layout as Panel 2. In Panel 4, she shakes her head at the request, flashing a look of regret at not being able to help out. In the next panel, moments later, she looks over to the left off-panel somewhere in the direction of a place that may be of more help.
REPORTER [apologetically, Panel 4]: Sorry, can't really help ya there. All the archives from before the merger are over in IT with Po- he's down in the fourth floor...or is it the third? REPORTER [to a friend, Panel 5]: Zeus, is IT on the third or fourth floor?
PANEL 6: Cut to a shot of a cubicle a distance from where the reporter is standing. We see Zeus' head poking out from the doorway- a cheerful Tongan man with a goatee and 1/2 of his hair buzzed off and the other half parted over to the side.
ZEUS [to the Reporter]: Fourth floor. Third floor's the podcast and Youtube studio as well as for remote interviews with--. REPORTER [interjecting Off-Panel, to Zeus]: Thought so...