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Call to colors magic trick how to#
How to Read Minds was the follow-up sequel which funded on Kickstarter in a mere 90 minutes and went on to out-sell How to be a Magician and break all records. It's since become one of the all-time best sellers of Ellusionist, propelling want-to-be magicians into full-fledged close up magic miracle workers. How to be a Magician was originally presented on Kickstarter and funded in just 24 hours. (By doing things off-camera, for example.) If you let the deck go out-of-frame, then they're going to immediately wonder if you are up to something sneaky while they can't see! One thing I have found that helps is to point the camera downward at my table/surface, and then put items on the table juuuust outside of the camera's view.These are not cheap magic kits that you'd find in a toy-store and give as a gift to a 10 year old. The big thing will be to make it obvious that you're not taking advantage of the camera to hide stuff. (Maybe riffle the deck and "tell me when to stop", if you were riffling slowly enough?) I haven't tried it yet, but I think you could also make most "pick a card" style tricks work, as long as you came up with a good, free-feeling selection that wasn't too tedious. So any tricks you do need to either be 100% magician driven, or only use the audience for things that can be done via voice. I think the biggest issue is that you can't have the audience touch anything. Hey! I've been thinking about similar things! Hope this helps! I've really enjoyed all of these, and they can all be done over the phone! I recommend practicing a few times with a buddy/fellow magician as getting the wording down pat is paramount because you literally can't see if the spectator is following instructions correctly, but you also dont want to be so dry and instructive as to give away the mystery! Scarne's Phone Miracle, Scarne on Card Tricks. Radio Sum Total by Richard Osterlind, Mind Mysteries 3 but based on an Al Baker effect called Sum TotalĪn Oldie by Eddie Fields also variations by Al Baker and others in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, under the name Number Please. Silent Telephone Transmission by Eddie Fields, using the Honolulu Shuffle/Waikiki Shuffle which iirc is also in one of the Card College Light books. Some of these principles are as old as the hills and you may already have a version or variation handy.īanachek's Reversal in Psychological Subtleties, also in Numbers Please by Richard Busch
Call to colors magic trick archive#
I've been digging through my collection and friend's brains for tricks to be performed over the phone/video and these are the best I've hit upon so far! I'm going off memory, and I'll mention books when I can, but I recommend searching these effects in the Conjuring Archive and Google to find books and sources. If the video is going to lag, flourishes could easily look like botched sleight of hand. Are they more suspicious because of the camera? If so, fix that, or choose another trick.Įdit: also, flourishes should be limited depending on the quality of the connection. The best advice, is think through the trick extensively from the audiences perspective, and figure out what the suspicious parts of the trick are. You could try, "say a number between 1 and 52" to pick the card, so for that you'll obviously either have to take the card they count to or employ sleight of hand rather than forcing a card. With delays, you will have a hard time doing stuff like "say stop when I should stop". Obviously a lot of tricks are going to be difficult. Never let anything go down that could give the audience a reason to expect trickery. As soon as you're on camera, the audience expects trickery.
There's a reason dancing doesn't look impressive in modern movies, but it looks incredible on stage. Can't give you advice as a magician, but I can give you advice as someone who's studied film somewhat.
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