Case 05 of 18 · CINEOSIS

CINEOSIS in the crash lab

Can each of the 45 CINEOSIS signs be staged by the family so a stranger recognises it?

45 signs, 16,742 frames of edit over 59 measured worlds, each judged by an independent critic from eight stills.

45 sheets · Oct 17 18:06 to Oct 17 18:58

How it was made

For each sign, write a test (what must be seen) and a counterfeit (what would look similar but be wrong).
Build a world in the bay and cut the sign from it.
Give a critic eight stills per sign, with no explanation, and ask for MET, WEAK or MISSES.

A sign is only staged when it can be told apart from its counterfeit, so the counterfeit is written before the scene.
The first blind round was severe: 12 met, 26 weak, 7 missed. The value is in the misses, because each names exactly what did not read.
Disagreements are recorded, not hidden. Where the critic misread (a key taken for a box), the passage was kept and the reason written down.

How it differs. The crash lab measured bodies. This case measures meaning: whether a viewer can read the idea.

Liquid perception: a scale jump read as a cut.Camera height locked; one unbroken move.
Originary world: no pull of the ground on the body.He sinks into the mud and is gone; the fences fall.
Figure of the sublime: the trivial need was never shown.The puddle is shown first and last.
Symbol: the object was never isolated.Ends on the key alone, with no hands.