2023-4-27 Snapshot on Rex’s UFO
Given Rex is still generally bored on his spaceship as he patrols over North America, he sometimes watches what Brad is up to on one of his monitors. In this scene, Brad is sweating, and when he sweats he emits a stench of sulfur. Because Rex feels Brad’s emotions but more intensely, he too is sweating but profusely, and also emitting an odor.
In class, Mabel, who is seated next to Brad, asks, “What’s that smell?” Meanwhile, back on the spaceship, the camera pans down to Epsilon, Rex’s robotic cat, who states that they sweat sulfur.
Creating this moment was interesting because after composing it an export of it needed to be reinserted into the very same scene sequence. Using the keying effect on Final Cut Pro X, the monitor is a green screen, which plays the same scene in real time as it happens in the classroom. That is, the monitor is playing a video, not just a still image.