Derren Brown: The Events

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Psychic** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:47 pm

Infibeyen wrote:Was the little stand in the shot all the time? I didn't notice it until he walked over to it.

Yeah, I just went back to check. One camera shot throughout.

One thing I noticed about the stand the balls were on was that there seemed to be a gap between the base the the tube leading up to the balls.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Dr. Buckles** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:47 pm

Alpha eX wrote:Peep Show!

18th of September!

I KNOW!

he's said a lot that these thrick are about misdirection i know i wasn't really watching the balls :fp:

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Cuttooth** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:47 pm

new*allusion wrote:Surely Derren Brown should be the richest man alive...

I don't think he needs the £2.4 million.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Yoshimi** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:47 pm

balls with e-ink and wi-fi signals??

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Kanbei** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:48 pm

Infibeyen wrote:Was the little stand in the shot all the time? I didn't notice it until he walked over to it.

Yup. He's incredibly clever and it's probably incredibly rudimentary...Friday should be good though!

Wow!

Derren Brown is the new Jesus!

Shame I'll be on holiday tomorrow and won't be able to watch the explanation episode.

New Peep Show = WIN.

How much money does he get for winning 5 numbers (or did he not buy a lottery ticket?).

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **satriales** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:48 pm

Infibeyen wrote:Was the little stand in the shot all the time? I didn't notice it until he walked over to it.

Yes, it was always in view. Somehow he managed to get numbers onto those balls as soon as the lottery draw happened, which is a very impressive trick.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Dr. Buckles** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:49 pm

Grumpy David wrote:
How much money does he get for winning 5 numbers (or did he not buy a lottery ticket?).

Channel four wouldn't let him buy a ticket

Hmm, maybe the numbers are not actually on the balls Brown showed us but are rather projected onto the balls in some way??

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Yoshimi** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:50 pm

his explaination will be some bullshit about studying the number for the last year, where what he has done is just get the numbers to appear on the balls within seconds of them being announced.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Rex McGee** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:50 pm

satriales wrote:Basically the trick is not predicting the lottery numbers, but getting the numbers onto the balls as soon as the lottery has happened. I don't know how he did it though.

Indeed. I was really looking forward to this because I thought he was going to announce them before the draw. Instead now it's just obvious he is up to magic tricks and misdirection again. No idea how he did it, hugely impressive but not what I was expecting.

KnifeySpoony wrote:Hmm, maybe the numbers are not actually on the balls Brown showed us but are rather projected onto the balls in some way??

I thought this but would be pretty sick to have a massive projector moving at the same speed as he turns the balls around? Perhaps there's some special materials involved and the numbers can be somehow 'burned' on from range. I dunno. Guess we wait until Friday.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Balloon Sod** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:51 pm

Yoshimi wrote:balls with e-ink and wi-fi signals??

That was my guess, too. It's still a fun trick, and I'd dare say the ratings for the actual Lottery tonight are no doubt the lowest ever- 1 person, and that's Derren Brown.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Conduit** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:51 pm

KnifeySpoony wrote:Hmm, maybe the numbers are not actually on the balls Brown showed us but are rather projected onto the balls in some way??

He wouldn't use special effects like that. He moved a few of the balls too.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **abcd** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:51 pm

clever trick I agree.....but it would have been far more impressive if he has showed us his predictions before the draw.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Shadow** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:51 pm

Infibeyen wrote:Was the little stand in the shot all the time? I didn't notice it until he walked over to it.

It was, but he wasn't stood next to it, which means clever camera trickery could have meant we were seeing a non-live feed for that half of the screen, I'm sure the actual illusion will be more elaborate than that, but it makes it less impressive when it's possible to offer up explanations straight away.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Infibeyen** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:51 pm

KnifeySpoony wrote:Hmm, maybe the numbers are not actually on the balls Brown showed us but are rather projected onto the balls in some way??

He did roll each ball upward a bit, looked legit. It's obviously misdirection, it will be interesting to see how it was done.

That was impressive. I'll be watching Friday for sure.

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **melatonin** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:53 pm

I'm going to go with "strawberry floating ShopTo".

PostRe: Derren Brown: The Events by **Pacman** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:53 pm

Albear wrote:
Balloon Sod wrote:
Fatal Exception wrote:
Moggy wrote:It would have been amazing TV if he had strawberry floated up the Russian Roulette trick....

It was a blank.

What was that on HIGNFY?

Derren Brown: "A blank can still skill you"

HIGNFY presenter: "Then why use a blank?"

Less chance of killing you.

I know given the choice which one I would choose.

Blank at point blank range to the head = pretty much 100% chance of killing you.

I say "pretty much" because I'm sure plenty of people have survived real bullets to the head too.

Anyway, impressive, but the "legal reasons" shouldn't really apply if it was just a prediction (as was pointed out already). Glad my plans of having a life fell through :shifty:

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