Oh, I am so punny =p
Once again a creative idea that I just lacked execution skills on. Tried lots of things to make it less flat and none of them worked.
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Congrats on getting into the top 20 in placement:-) Absolutely love the concept - we thought alike on this one:-) (I had two ideas and the 'keynote' idea was one of them) Lighting, placement, clever take on the subject are all good, but as you mentioned it needed that 'something' in the execution for it to pop visually. Still, you garnered a nice score and some great comments:-)
it is hard to make a flat subject jump, but you did it with this lighting. Clever concept combining two key ideas and nice processing to bring out the tones in the keys while keeping the paper white.