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Today's composition notes: interstitial frames!

There are a lot of frames that are close ups on the deer this page. If I wanted to get the idea of the page across -- The deer drops, the antler breaks, and Tamberlane thinks it looks like Walter -- then I'd only need three frames.

However, I wanted to really get across the feel of the event. There's a narrow frame of the antler snapping because it's only a short period of time. Then there's a wide panel of just the deer sitting there. It's the aftermath of the event, where everyone is stunned and processing what just happened. It's like it takes the entire width of the page for their brain to process that it broke.

Then, a continued pause as Tamberlane picks it up. Piper's speech is in the background so it's not really the focus of the frame; it's just her looking at it. 

Then a short frame to specifically draw the eye to the snapped antler. I used her finger to point to it, making sure the audience is aware that she's focused on it.

And then a nearly identical frame to the 4th frame as Tamberlane reaches her conclusion. Drawing them very similarly is to really hammer home the changes that happened in the last few seconds. From sad to happy, how her countenance changes.

Adding all those extra frames really helps draw the moment out and give it the right timing. You want that tension, the climax, the aftermath, and the denouement. You can't do that with just three frames!