Thanks a lot Steve. That does help, I’ll try it.
What I meant by parenting was that at the beginning of the film, I wanted the boxes to be fixed together so it looks like a comic page but then separates out into individual boxes as the story begins.
I messed about and tried to do this by parenting the rest of the boxes to one box and moving them individually, keyframing those movements until they separated out.
It didn’t work that well (I’m new to After Effects) but I will try applying the advice you’ve given me.
Did you happen to watch the video I made reference to to? Would you recommend the method you outlined in reference to the effect of the music video?
Someone recommended that I scan a page with boxes drawn out like a comic book into photoshop, cut out the boxes and then import the page into After Effects. I’m not sure about that.