# overlap 15s

> This folder ships the film only. Its source (the composition, the score, the sound sources) is not part of the
> public release; files named below describe how it was made.

The film: `overlap.mp4`

## How it was made (from the composition's header)

```text
CONCEPT — a two-colour risograph print, pulled by two people, with a message neither half carries. A pink cursor, "you",
and a blue one, "them", grab a drum each at opposite edges of one sheet and pull toward each other: pink lays "you" and
a circle of random dots, blue lays "them" and a second circle. The circles share one grid and one coin per cell: pink
inks heads; blue inks tails, except inside a hidden ampersand, where it inks heads too. Each plate alone is the same
noise; only exactly in register do the & cells land together and multiply to violet. The blue lands out of register, so
nothing shows. A loupe finds dots that miss each other and a doubled mark; "them" clicks beside the mark, the blue snaps
into register and "you & them" appears. The print run is every other pair it is for; "them" yanks the stack away; the two
pull the name, over + lap, and meet where the r crosses the l; the camera, locked off until then, pushes in on that
crossing and tilts down to the line. Fictional product (overlap, a shared canvas for two). Zero assets; one canvas; every
value a function of t.

 t             beat                                moves                                              carries into the next
 0.18–1.25     the bed, out of focus               the sheet slams in; the focus racks sharp          the sheet
 0.95–1.48     two people                          "you" and "them" arrive and grab a drum each       the cursors
 1.50–3.58     one pass, from both sides           pulled in, let go, rolled out: only noise          the cursors
 3.58–4.20     a rest                              nothing moves: you ○○ them, something missing      the overlap
 4.20–5.78     the loupe                           the cursors make room; dots that miss, a doubled mark  the loupe
 6.00          in register                         "them" clicks; the blue snaps; the & appears       the sheet
 6.35–7.18     the loupe lifts                     "you & them" reads whole                           the sheet
 7.18–8.50     the print run                       six sheets slam, each a different pair & pair      the stack
 8.62–9.67     a new sheet                         "them" yanks the stack away; a blank sheet slams in   "them"
 9.67–11.55    the name                            the same pull, over + lap; the cursors meet at r|l;   the crossing
                                                   the blue snaps into register
 11.70–15.00   where they meet, the line, the card the camera pushes in on the r and the l, tilts down   end
                                                   to the line, pulls back out to the whole card
CAMERA — locked off (a copy stand over the press bed) until the name is in register, then one operator (OM.rig): into
the crossing of r and l, down to the line, back out to the card. Before that the optics are one rack focus and one loupe. MOTION — mechanical:
drums pulled in (u²) and rolled out (quadOut), feeds that slam, dots that grow in steps; two springs, both registrations.
PALETTE — cream stock on a warm grey bed; fluorescent pink and riso blue, overprinted by multiply.
```