Geson's Quicktime movie clip was too large for easy access from the web, being 16 MB. Michel prepared an animated graphic from individual frames from the movie, capturing a frame per second. This animated graphic doesn't have the quality that the movie clip does, and is halting rather than free flowing, but gets the ideas of the presentation format across. Note that the animated graphic does not include the sound in the original clip.

(animated GIF archived)

Geson's comments on approach:

This clip was not made for Troubled Times, I made it to get my friend's attention. I actually made this some time ago, whipped together will stills and short animations. I also see the importance of making the video as informative (the facts), simple, clear, colorful and fantastic, so that it appeals to all kind of people, not only the MTV crowd. There are three main reasons for showing this unfinished piece of film.

• I want to show you what direction I would like this production to take. It has to be tasty in the sense that the target group has to get so interested that they want more information, and surf the zetatalk site.
• I think that a video could have the Zeta URL at the bottom of the screen (all the time) and maybe have some pole shift text running in the background (transparent and merged) in an artistic manner. I want to sell the message on a meta level and believe this could be done by mixing he medicine with the candy.
• The resources we have are not the greatest, but we need to get this going. I don't need anything but time to get this on the move and will try again as soon as possible. When there is a need for funding we will see what the right thing will be.
• The storybook is very good, but I believe we need to jazz it up a big. This means adhear to the storyboard, but also cut out everything that is not needed, and perhaps add some new stuff.