Use Your Illusion

A very small piece in today's Evening Standard reminded me of a storytelling trick available to TV and film writers. We can employ images which lead the viewer to make assumptions... then turn everything on its head.

"In a report on 19 June it was reported that a woman was pictured writing graffiti at a bus stop. She was in fact removing it. We are happy to clarify this and apologise for any embarrassment."

3 comments:

Jason Arnopp said...

Wow! Thankyou, Entirely Real Person.

Let's hope everyone takes advantage of this very exciting opportunity!

potdoll said...

Squeak!

Oli said...

At least they had the decency to spam-comment you in English. I got it in Portuguese.