I think in the end it ended up being more like "inspired by the Bones titles" rather than being like them -- I found I couldn't do half the things I wanted to without being able to keyframe filters, and the idea of copying all those clips to fake it just... bleh. So I just stuck with the superimpositions and a couple of places where the superimpositions of closeups transitioned to the next full clip... Someday maybe i'll be able to use more of those effects they do.
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