
THE BRAIN BRAKE, and under it THE CENTRAL GOVERNOR THEORY, hand drawn in pencil on bare cream paper. Nothing else in the frame.
The first thing in the film, in both the competition version and the longer one. Drawn in the film's own hand rather than set in a typeface, so the title belongs to the picture instead of sitting on top of it. Ink is 1.62 percent: almost the whole frame is paper.
Title card. Front of both versions.
Phase. Phase 1 of 15, TITLE.
Hero’s journey. BEFORE THE JOURNEY. The world has not started moving yet.
THE BRAIN BRAKE
The Central Governor Theory · Breakthrough Junior Challenge 2026