What stood out to me when I read the lyrics to the Ten Duel Commandments was how official the rules are to something that is so archaic. It was also interesting that there was so much double-checking, even triple-checking, to make sure they all want to do it. This song is pretty self-aware about how pointless the duels actually are. I love that Lin-Miranda chose to do it this way.
When asked to create something, I thought of listing the rules like a document. But that had already been done. This is Hamilton we are talking about. I went back to the drawing board. I looked at how the Ten Commandments were written on a stone tablet and thought this could be on something duel related. I found a picture of a guy with a gun upwards (which is fitting considering the ending) and I made a silhouette.
The tricky part then became how am I going to fit all the rules onto the silhouette. Should I have the words over the gun? What lyrics should I include? Then I remembered what we learned in class on what really matters. I didn't use the exact phrasing for a lot of the rules but basically the bigger text is the main rule and the text under adds to it in some way.
Here is the final product:
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