Derren Brown predicts and reveals the Lottery Numbers LIVE on TV

09/09/09

How does he do it? Any ideas?

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• Four
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• Magic

[JamesPoel]

up until the 5th ball is announced the left of the screen is live

then the left of the screen is frozen, in which time while derren is busy buying time by writing the numbers down on his whiteboard, a stagehand is swapping derren's balls with the correct numbers, the left of the screen is then unfrozen to allow derren to reveal the new set of white balls to the viewers

[HotOnTheWeb]

The whole screen never stops moving...I think that's why they used a free-standing camera man to show that the screen isn't frozen.

If they used a camera on a tripod, your idea would've worked, but they didn't so it's still a mystery...

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[Busher50]

at 5:40 to 5:42 is when the overlay of recorded motionless balls are removed

[stevephilo]

You can see the line on the wall and floor hiding the split screen divide. the left side is frozen, but it looks like it isnt because the camera wobbles about (too unprofessionally not to be a gimmick).

I suspect a third camera is filming a large screen with the split image from the two studio cams projected onto it.

[LucieA7X]

u can see at two points of the balls being called out, once they are all picked, if you look at the left, u see the screen freeze for a split second, when hes finished writing them down, keep looking at the left side and it freezes again.

[gavsmith1980]

or a totally stationary camera, but the video is processed to look like its from a handheld, making it easy to overlay a mask on the L/H side where the stand was, to hide the balls being swapped for the ones just drawn on the BBC.

[thenthornthing]

ya, since my post i've realised a few things.

[JamesPoel]

the camera "shaking" is ia digital effect, it is split screen

[JamesPoel]

to understand what i mean, search youtube for "grim reaper prank" and choose the top result, it's the same thing!

[JamesPoel]

therefore its possible for a system to constantly track the left half overlay into the correct position using that nice brick wall in the background as a reference point

simple.

[JamesPoel]

whilst this half is frozen a stagehand swaps the balls on the stand with the correct ones, we don't see this because this half of the screen is frozen!

the left half is then unfrozen, and the whole shot is live again, for derren to reveal the balls.

as for the camera wobbling, this is to TRY and detur accusations of split screen, however, the camera's shot is wider than what we are shown