Marine Parade, Singapore8:05 AMon screen
Alibag, India5:35 AMsame moment
How OVERCLOCK Episode 4 was made
Two scoops, two cities.
Double Scoop braids two mornings together: a boy with an ice cream in Singapore, and a goodbye on a lawn in India. Scroll through both at once and see how one person made it in Agent Social.
Singapore runs two and a half hours ahead of India, so the film’s first caption, 8:05 in Marine Parade, is 5:35 in Alibag.
How to read what comes next
The film shows one city at a time. This page shows both.
Scroll, and Episode 4 plays out in two windows. The city on screen is in colour; the other holds the last picture you saw of it. The line between them is the episode itself, crossing over each time the film cuts to the other city. Drag it, or use the arrow keys on it, to jump.
- SingaporeMarine Parade, the army camp, the business district
- IndiaThe Alibag resort lawn, the Navi Mumbai air force helipad
- Chapter 1, 0:00: A double scoop, then a thump. Max gets his ice cream as something shakes the parlour. Two takes were filmed for this chapter, 55 seconds in all, and the 9.1 seconds in the film come from the middle of the second one.
- Chapter 2, 0:09: Uncle Tan hears nothing. Headphones on, a plate of tacos, his back to the road. A bus near-miss was planned for this street too, and a picture of it was painted, but the clip that made the film is all Uncle Tan, filmed in one take.
- Chapter 3, 0:39: Max takes off his cap. The picture that plans this shot was painted from the very last frame of the parlour take, so it is the same Max, the same cone and the same light. The shot is one slow push-in.
- Chapter 4, 0:48: Alibag, right where Episode 3 stopped. The chapter opens on Episode 3’s very last frame: Deep at the breakfast table, the Chinook on the lawn behind the glass. Its opening picture was painted from that frame, so the story runs straight on. Nora: “Yesterday you were drinking cold coffee in my café…”
- Chapter 5, 1:13: “Try not to steal another jet ski.” “No promises.” The goodbye is three stretches of its second take, cut together. The lift-off after it is one unbroken 20-second shot from behind Nora and Otto, starting on the goodbye’s last kept frame.
- Chapters 6–7, 1:57: “It’s past Kallang. Moving west.” Back in Singapore, Colonel Lim and Captain Goh watch the creature on the wall screen, then Goh runs the order down to Alpha Team in the vehicle shed: “Locked and loaded.”
- Chapters 8–9, 2:39: Alpha Team rolls out. The convoy leaving the camp gate was not in the first plan. It was added later as its own chapter and slotted in between the shed and the helicopter. Bird One’s cockpit is 5.1 seconds kept from a 10-second take.
- Chapter 10, 3:04: Four tries at the helipad. The Chinook landing at Navi Mumbai took four 30-second takes, and the fourth went in whole. Seven pictures were painted to plan it, and five of them were set aside along the way.
- Chapter 11, 3:34: “Outran is a big word.” In the C-17’s hold a soldier asks about the jet ski, and Deep plays it down. Then the ramp closes: “Five hours” to Singapore. 7.8 seconds were cut from the middle of the take.
- Chapter 12, 3:56: A lollipop, then silence. Peter and Joanne run from the creature filling the street between the towers and hide in a supermarket. Joanne’s peace offering is a lollipop, and Episode 5 picks that up: the cashier makes Peter pay for it.
Chapter 2 · Singapore
A pop song for one taco.
Uncle Tan’s headphones are playing Sugar Rush Summer, an original bubblegum-pop song with lyrics, written for this gag. It plays from 0:09 and stops dead at about 0:31, the moment he pulls the headphones off.
The whole chapter is one 30-second take, used start to finish. It is one of seven pieces of music composed for the episode.
♪ Sugar Rush Summer
0:13Headphones on. He hears nothing.
Press it. He won’t hear it coming.
Chapter 3 · Singapore
Max salutes.
The street outside the parlour is quiet again. Max takes off his cap and holds it to his chest, still looking down the road.
The picture that plans this shot was painted from the very last frame of the parlour take, so the boy, the cone and the light carry straight on. The shot is a single slow push-in.
Press and hold, and Max takes his cap off.
The shape of the episode
Two stories, cut into one.
Pulled apart, Double Scoop is a Singapore story and an India story, each told in order and cut into each other. It was planned as five chapters and built as twelve.
As cut: 5 stretches in 4:26.
- 0:00 to 0:48: Singapore, Ch 1–3
- 0:48 to 1:57: India, Ch 4–5
- 1:57 to 3:04: Singapore, Ch 6–9
- 3:04 to 3:56: India, Ch 10–11
- 3:56 to 4:26: Singapore, Ch 12
- chapters
- chapters
- clips
- clips
- takes filmed
- takes filmed
- pictures painted to plan the shots
- pictures painted to plan the shots
Nine of the thirteen clips used their only take. 473 seconds were filmed for 266 on screen, every clip with Seedance 2.5.
Make one like it
How you would cut two places together in Agent Social
Tell it as one story
Describe the whole episode in the chat, both places, in the order you want them seen. Episode 4 began as a five-chapter plan and grew to twelve chapters while it was made, one of them added in the middle.
Start where the last episode stopped
Open the new episode on the last frame of the one before, and the story runs straight on. Here, the India story opens on Episode 3’s final frame.
Carry the frame across
When a moment needs a second clip, start it on the last frame you kept. The lift-off begins exactly where the goodbye ends, and Max’s cap shot was planned from the parlour’s last frame.
Watch, trim, ask again
Watch every take, keep its best part, and ask for another when one misses: the helipad took four. Nine of the thirteen clips here used their first take.
Episode 3 · its last frame
Episode 4 · 0:50, just after the cut to Alibag
It ends on a lollipop
Watch both mornings play out.
OVERCLOCK Episode 4, Double Scoop, start to finish on YouTube.