Deadpan Mascot Memorial Announcement
A mock-serious brand statement turns a mascot's fictional loss into an escalating joke and a product action, using one long speaker take.
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Why it works
The formal character card holds for frames 0–80, letting the greeting lead into the 3-frame fade to a human spokesperson. Shot 2 runs 2886 frames with a locked camera, so phrase captions and precise deadpan details carry the escalation; the product ask waits until about 84 s and the farewell gets only 64 frames.
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