Sequence What's This? - Fall Out Boy

From all the way back in my 2019 show, my personal favorite. It's not the flashiest or most complex, but I feel it's the most fun and thematically driven sequence I've created. I've shared it before on the Google drive and sequence sharing Facebook group, and now I'm placing it here. It uses Fall Out Boy's fantastic cover of the song from the Nightmare Revisited album, but I've seen some swap in the movie version of the song - they are about the same length and very little modification would be required.

Should be easy enough to import, but here's some hints to get the most out of it and provide context:

• All - most of the effects live here
• All Without Matrices and All Except Matrices - excuse my confusing naming here - only a few effects on these, but important. Either just throw them on a bottom layer of All or create your own groups to suit. I think this was my hack before I understood the render order.
• Right Half and Left Half - self explanatory - if you have groups for this, they'll drop right in, if not any groups of props like left/right or top/bottom would suit. The effects here are just quick washes to highlight some of the beats.
• The Matrices - Garage Window Left, Garage Window Right, Column Left, Column Right - an image of Jack Skellington appears on these, as if he's moving around the house as he wonders "what's this?". Use any pixel dense props or matrices you have, and if you don't have 4 of them, you could put them all on one or two elements. You'll likely have to mess with the image size to suit.
• Inside Tree / Window and Tree - map these to your mega tree or any tree you have. I used to have a Christmas tree inside the house visible through a window as part of my show, and these effects were for when Jack says in the song "what's this, in here, they've got a little tree..." - it's a really great part, take extra care to make it work for you. You'll want to edit the All effects during this part of the song to re-center the shockwaves to come from the area of your tree, as mine was on the right side.
• Trees, Trees Left, Trees Right, Mega Tree - a little sequence of effects at the start of the song uses these - any left/right prop groups, big center prop, and all props would work for this. Play around and see what you get!

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