Electric gaze effect

Discharge from the eyes flashes a whole room in stutters. a wide shot of an adult standing in a dark workshop full of tools, branching blue-white arcs jumping between their eyes in bursts, each burst flashing the whole room into view for an instant, the benches, chains and dust visible only while an arc holds and gone again when it snaps out, the figure standing still through all of it, locked wide camera

An arc reaches from the eyes to standing water and walks across it. a wide shot of an adult standing over a wide puddle in a dark loading yard, a branching arc leaving both eyes and reaching down to the water, walking across the surface in forks and lighting the yard from below for a moment, the water flashing white then going black again as the discharge dies, a second arc forming and striking further out, locked camera

An arc leaves the eye and strikes a nearby rail with a snap. an adult leans close to a steel handrail in a dark stairwell, a branching blue-white arc leaving one eye and reaching across the gap to strike the rail with a snap, walking along the metal in forks before dying, the strike flashing light up the wall and across the face, then a second arc forming and striking from the other eye, the stairwell dark between strikes, medium camera

Arcs skip across wet skin and flash in the water on the face. a close portrait of an adult in heavy rain at night, branching blue-white arcs jumping from eye to eye and skipping across the wet skin, each strike flashing in the water running down the face and lighting the falling rain in front of it for an instant, the arcs snapping out between strikes so the face returns to darkness, one cold lamp somewhere behind, handheld camera

Thin filaments cross the bridge of the nose and snap in and out. a close portrait of an adult in a dark bare room, thin blue-white electrical arcs jumping from the corner of one eye to the other across the bridge of the nose, each filament branching into forks, holding for a fraction of a second and snapping out before the next one forms, every arc throwing a hard flash of light onto the cheeks and the wall behind, the face otherwise dark and still, locked camera

Arcs work in one eye only while the other stays completely normal. a close symmetrical portrait of an adult in a dim corridor, the left eye producing thin branching arcs that snap between the lid corners and flicker out, the right eye staying completely ordinary and dark with no light in it at all, the flashes lighting only the left side of the face and the wall beside it in stutters, the head still and level, locked camera at eye level

Discharge travels from the eyes down the body to the fingertips. a wide shot of an adult standing in an empty dark hall, branching arcs starting at the eyes, then sparks crawling down the neck, along both arms in forking threads and spitting off the fingertips in small bright flashes, each stage lighting only the part of the body it crosses and leaving the rest dark, the hall visible only in the flashes, slow camera push in

Small crawling sparks travel out from the eye across the skin. a tight side portrait of an adult against a black background, small bright sparks leaving the outer corner of the eye and crawling across the cheekbone in branching threads like discharge across a surface, spitting tiny flashes as they go and dying out at the jaw, each spark lighting the skin it touches for an instant then leaving it dark again, cold blue-white colour, camera holding tight

Two people stand together and only one produces arcs. a wide shot of two adults standing side by side against a dark brick wall, the left one producing thin branching arcs that jump between the eyes and crawl over the cheek in bursts, the right one staying completely ordinary with no light on the face at all, each burst throwing a hard flash across both of them and the wall, then darkness, static camera

A single long arc builds across both eyes and breaks. a close portrait of an adult in darkness, a single thin filament forming at one eye, thickening and branching as it reaches across to the other eye until it spans the face like a fine bright thread, then breaking in the middle and whipping away into two dying forks, leaving the face dark with a faint afterglow on the skin, the flash briefly showing the wall behind, slow push in