I guess I didn't really have a form unique to mixed media in the "Of Geese and Finance" shot, but I think I have one in the "Butcher Shop Interior" and "Panhandler" shots.
I am not sure what kind of function the "Butcher Shop Interior" is. It sort of changes from implicit to explicit as the text transforms into characters. All of my cross over tropes sort of go from constative to performative by virtue of swapping dialects between literary and cinematography through interactivity. In a sense they were never really performative functions, because they were never purely constave in the other platform. But that leads back to the problem that you cannot make a statement to another without eliciting some sort of reaction (or it is not really communication). In that light, the crossover performative functions are more perfect than a performative function in a single platform because they do not exist as statements at all in the other medium... But that might make them less than utterances.
I don't think a constative utterance can exist, but performatives are a gradation from implicit to explicit, and time based media can go from not existing -> to implicit -> to explicit as the message is revealed to the audience.
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