Rock The Vouhhhnn!, Chapter 9: Part 1.1
Page 202 (Chapter 9, Page 1)
Panel 1: We open on Zoe a short time after we left her at the end of Chapter 8. She’s outside of the hotel room on the phone to someone on the other end; the front of the door in the background.
ZOE
(into the phone, to Vitamin K)
Vitamin K! Eotteohgegayo amke?
ZOE
(Bubble; reacting to Panel 2, Bubble 1)
Am I that transparent?
Panel 2: Cut to a shot of Vitamin K- tall, Asian with a volleyball player’s physique and bright pink hair- in the bedroom of her apartment, dressed in a mid-riff and jean shorts; the former containing a pocket to recharge one’s phone via solar power. You can see a little section of the wall in the background where hangs a photo of Priyanka Chopra.
VITAMIN K
(skeptical, half-grin; to Zoe) What do you want? You don’t flash the Korean at me unless you want something.
VITAMIN K
(Bubble 2; reacting to Panel 1, Bubble 2)
You really want me to answer that…?
Panel 3: Back to Zoe in the same setting/layout as Panel 1. She looks over to the left, and takes a few baby steps in that same direction as she speaks; her body language shifting toward a more appeasing tone.
VITAMIN K
(Cont., from the receiver)
...Legal, personal, or business?
ZOE
Business, for the most part. I know you said you retired from coding and IT in general after what happened to Sydney. But I was hoping you could--
Panel 4: We move back to K in the same setting/layout as Panel 2. She jumps on top of the end of her statement, recognizing the seriousness in her friend’s voice.
VITAMIN K
(interjecting)
Of course. I’ve got a few clients to go through. But send me whatever problem you’ve got, and I’ll get at it as quick as I can.
Panel 5: A short time later, we see K- dressed in a comfy tanktop and a pair of jeans- in her kitchen watching the video that Ms. Olson sent her earlier. She carefully examines the video, locked in deep thought as she tries to crack the code.
VITAMIN K
(thought bubble)
Fascinating…I can see what got Zo so spooked.
Page 203 (Chapter 9, Page 2)
Panel 1: We move to a slight close-up on Vitamin K’s face, still deep in thought as she was at the end of the previous page.
VITAMIN K
(Cont.)
It looks real, but there’s a hint of fake I can’t quite shake- kinda like the filling in old Ding Dongs.
Panel 2: Cut to her laptop screen a few moments later. It’s a separate window that K’s opened, showing a litany of a dozen separate folders containing different hacker tricks. You can see the mouse moving over to the first file on the list.
VITAMIN K
(Cont., Off-Panel)
May, fire up the pre-Z K-Pop playlist. Let’s see if the old tools can do away with some of the ambiguity…
Panel 3: A three-part set of panels that consists, in fast forward, of the same movement of Ms. K actively typing away on the keyboard; the outfit changing with each panel, starting here with the same one she wore in the previous page. In the top of the panel view, you can see the well executed musical notes of a K-Pop song hovering through each panel.
Panel 4: In the second part, we see her wearing a gray tanktop with the star of Hala at the center of it.
Panel 5: In the final one, sitting cross legged on the bed, we see her dressed in an Indiana University hockey jersey that covers the lower half of her body; the fast forward effect ended. She’s stopped typing for a brief moment, looking on with a mix of relief and happiness over what had happened.
VITAMIN K
Bing-go…
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