OK. There are a million ways he could have done this. None more ridiculous than the next. Illusionists have used the most elaborate setups imaginable (or indeed so simple you would never dare to guess) in order to achieve illusions. In this blog are ways I think Derren Brown may have predicted the lottery numbers last night. It is not how I think he did it, just how he may have. In the buildup he used heavily edited VT's played in a variety of ways that I think indicate that editing and indeed the inherent artifice of most television has a big part to play in the Illusion.
1) Move-matching and spherical image layers on balls.
Thinking about it.. it would make sense if the whole thing was prerecorded - except for the actual BBC footage. That could be superimposed onto the TV screen pretty easily with use of chroma-key. Then when we say the numbers somebody just entered the numbers into the editing software to display the numbers on the balls whose movement on screen has been recorded and determined previously (very convincingly).
If I filmed you a month ago moving some balls I could map the movement of it, rotation/movement etc, then apply that to a layer which i've just entered a number/word/image into. I would be surprised if this is how he did given the anticlimax of it all. But it is how he could have done it. I wouldn't be surprised if on the reveal on Friday he was actually in the BBC studio himself.
2) Left part of screen cutaway
Again, using move matching a stationary layer is held over the left third of the screen, then when the numbers are read out and he's writing them down in order his lovely assistants are putting the balls in place (behind a digital false wall).
Anyway. That's what I think.
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