Derren Brown to predict Wednesdays Lotto result.

[Frank]

I watched the programme and also the replay on my sky plus machine, and again on youtube. There is no doubt that however he did it , its brilliant trick. I've read lots of speculation in the youtube and other threads about how he might have done it. The best suggestion I've heard is the trick they used in the film 'speed'. To fool the blackmailer they used a loop of videotape playing a 'fixed' scene to cover up what was really happening. In the lotto trick, it was suggested that the left hand side of our view wasn't in fact live. It was a recording of the balls in their holder taken earlier. Using split screen techniques we saw Brown live on the right hand side writing down the numbers as the result came in along with the frozen footage taken earlier on the left hand side. Of course there was someone actuallly putting the correct numbered balls into place as they were drawn on the left hand side but we never saw that. Once in place, the 'loop' we had been watching reverted to actual live footage as Brown went to the rack to show us his 'prediction' .
If you watch the you tube footage you will see that the camera isn't steady as it would normally be if filmed on a tripod. It is slightly jumpy. I think this is deliberate to hide the cuts, and the lighting is deliberately low to hide the joins.

Watch the video and read the story here --->Derren