Chapter 397: Connection Skills
I don't know if you have this kind of experience, magic has been playing for a long time, once thought that the effect of a bunker, now will think that it is very monotonous, so there will be the idea of wanting to improve or connect the effect, which is most reflected in the stage magic process, but in the close-up it is relatively rare, I see most of the enthusiasts, just after doing an effect, it will be over.
For example, arm soot prophecy. In this way, when you perform, the audience thinks that you are over like this, and it will make him feel that he is not full, so he always asks to watch it again, for this kind of magic that is not very improvised, you can only avoid answering, and continue to perform with another magic, so I think it will affect the audience's mood to watch magic, in response to these problems, I have a little caution about performing magic in a bar some time ago, and I will share it with you here.
In fact, you can turn to the teaching, I myself is to learn the things I have learned before, whether old or new, to connect several effects, not only to meet the audience's expectations of magic, (will make the audience feel that this is a magic, obviously several magic techniques with different principles), more importantly, to give the audience a sense of impact (whether visual or spiritual) will be stronger, put the simple effect in front, lay the groundwork, and play a role in fueling the fire. Of course, there are also tricks to choosing how to choose these effects.
First: it is best to take a single effect for a short time, within 1-2 minutes, it is necessary to explain here, if you play a magic effect that takes 5 minutes to complete, such as sand in the water, which requires a storyline, then you don't need to use it.
Second: the order of effects, from simple to advanced, biology textbooks also say the same, haha! The advantage of this is to add fuel to the fire, so that the climax continues to overlap! I believe you all understand this.
Third: the effect of the choice should be well cohesive, you can't take the banknote to perform magic at the beginning, and then take the poker performance, and then tell the audience that this is actually a magic trick, from another point of view, to make the audience think that you are a magic trick from the heart, then the effect should be compact, the best way is that different effects occur on the same props, such as starting to borrow banknotes to convert instantly, and then continue to play the manipulation version of the pencil through the banknotes, and finally the banknotes into the fruit on the table, so that it is obvious that the integrity of the magic comes out, and the key is that the audience will be impatient to guess, why is it not over, when she says this, it proves that you are already very good in her heart。
First of all, to give a few examples, many enthusiasts pursue that one hand can conjure up to 3 bouncing sticks at the same time, or a silk scarf can be turned into a bouncing stick, and one can be bounced on the ground to catch it and pop one out at the same time.
The coin is stolen with the left hand, then caught in the index finger, and then hidden between the middle and ring fingers when it is not available.
Conjure up a ghost card, then turn the whole deck twice to the right hand and continue to spin, then bounce back to the left hand and flick the card into an ace of spades.
I'm sure you're familiar with these images, because that's what a lot of people often do without even noticing.
Reflect on it, what is the main purpose of the stick, is to not let the audience feel that it is played, and many enthusiasts do everything possible to increase the difficulty of the stick, and then let the audience find that the stick can be retracted.
What is the feeling of the disappearance of the coin? It is to make the audience feel that my coin is held in the left hand, and the opening disappears. And many enthusiasts think that I put the coin in my left hand and hold it, and then I use a difficult method to show that my right hand is empty, and the audience will believe that the coin is in the left hand.
But the point of disappearing should be that the coin is held in the left hand, opened, gone, this is the meaning of disappearing, not the coin is not in the left hand, not in the right hand, not in the left hand, not in the right hand, and then it is gone. This is called over-accounting, as long as you can make your audience feel that your coin is in the left hand, then they will believe it, and you don't have to go out of your way to account for your right hand.
How can you know what this feeling is?It's very simple.Think about it.If Harry Potter were to take away a coin, would he turn his hand backwards.Hide the coin?The answer is no.He'll just tell you.Look clearly.Coin.Boom~~It's gone!It's that simple.And that's exactly what we want to create.
And why do we think the previous difficult techniques look good now? Because the concept of the predecessors is that the difficult techniques should not be presented in front of the audience. This is a secret action, that is to say, it is done, you don't think I have done anything, this is the essence of magic movements, and now there are a lot of young magicians, for fear that others will not see him, he can hide four bullet sticks in one hand, which leads to the original focus began to develop deformously: From me conjuring up one rod to I hiding four sticks. Oh my God, who told you to tell the audience that you can hide four.
Another point is.The more you make difficult moves for the audience to see.In disguise, you are telling the audience how you took out what you have.This is definitely a wrong understanding of magic.From ancient times to the present, magicians have always been only said to be magicians.It's the word "change".Now it's good.Maybe the audience will ask you, magician, can you "take" magic tricks to show me?. Embarrassment~~~ Everyone should be aware of what they are doing, know how to improve your sense of magic, ordinary viewers don't know the pain and difficulty of hiding four bullet sticks and then opening them at once, they have no concept of this thing.
Or do you want to change something so that there is something comparable in the audience's mind. Or suppose I tell the audience that I want to conjure four sticks and I tell the audience that I want to put the key in a beer bottle. What do you think the audience will find magical? They don't know the structure of the stick, there's nothing they can compare to the stick, they don't know what it is, but if they have the impression that someone puts a coin in a beer bottle, then they think the key might be harder, so they know how difficult your magic trick is, even if it's not difficult, but they will have that impression! If you haven't seen a coin turned into a beer bottle, it doesn't matter.It's a normal person who knows that the key can't be put in.It's also something that ordinary people have in their concept.So it's not that you find it difficult.The audience will find it difficult.The expression you have when you open four sticks on stage.Sometimes you want to laugh when you see it.It's very busy when you look at it.Wowhahaha..
Or put it this way, if I tell you that I do UFO magic, I tell you that I have props, you'll think I'm good at using props.
If I don't let you know that there are props, you'll think it's amazing, so the contrast is pretty obvious!
Actually, we have to know that what we are doing is a magic show, not a technical show, and the reason why technology is called technology is because you can see how difficult it is, but magic is different.