Mo Qi put down the poker and said, "May I ask you a question, what kind of magic does the audience need?"

"Handsome magic!"

"It's definitely a cool effect!"

"I love mind magic, the kind that gives you goosebumps!"

Mo Qi looked at the various rumors of the fans below, and said with a smile: "First of all, we must understand that the biggest shock that magic brings to the audience is some anti-common sense, anti-nature, anti-science, incredible effects or strong visual impact in magic!"

"Of course, this alone is not enough, there must be a sense of mystery, and magic is doomed to fail without a sense of mystery. Take the 2012 Liu Yiqian Spring Festival Gala magic show as an example, as soon as the performance is over, the people who ask for revelations are overwhelming, and everyone doesn't have to scold the people who ask for revelations, this is the normal reaction of normal people after watching an excellent performance, and it is not normal for no one to ask for teaching. ”

"Different people look at magic tricks differently, most people only look at the "lively" and not the "doorway", as long as it is magical, the performer does not necessarily show how difficult the trick is, unless it is a competition. ”

"For example, Liu Yiqian's magic trick performed on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, for real insiders, there was not much shock, but he became an instant hit, I think he didn't rely on how gorgeous his technique was, but his selection of materials and language. He subverted the perception of magic and magicians in the Chinese people, and he let people know that magic props can be so lifelike, can be close to each other, and can be easily accessed. Understand that magicians can communicate with the audience and can be so humorous. ”

"So the audience is eager to communicate with the magician, to hope for a change in the form of magic, to participate in magic. Liu Yiqian's success also depends on his typhoon and expression ability, he used humorous and humorous words to relieve the tense atmosphere, but also attracted the audience, and the rhythm of his performance was also well grasped, so that the audience kept following the magic, and there was no time to think about why, which invisibly helped him avoid the audience's surveillance.

Of course, his success cannot be replicated, different performers have different characteristics, although they cannot be replicated, but we can learn from them. Second, the performer should be audience-centric, not perform on his own, but interact with the audience; Thirdly, the performers themselves should not be nervous, and the audience will be nervous with you, which will definitely affect the viewing effect of the magic show. ”

"yes, that's so magical!"

"I'm sometimes curious about the principle, but it's more important to enjoy the process!"

"In one word, it is worthy of being an idol!"

Seeing that the fans were very enthusiastic, Mo Qi continued: "Then the next question, how to apply the audience's demand psychology into magic?"

"You might as well look at the award-winning works in the major magic competitions every year, to be honest, there are basically very few complete innovations in the real sense, and the same effect plus new packaging, new processes, and new fees will become excellent works. ”

"For example, some of Chris's escape tricks, which are popular with many people, are not much different from the escape techniques performed by other escape magicians, but why is he so popular?

"There is a saying that when the magician sitting in the audience applauds you, you are considered successful.

"For example, Baglas, his "Bagas system", relying on this originality, he has been popular until now.Rather than creating so many "pseudo-originals", it is better to calm down and adapt the process or technique, its shock does not have to be original The effect is poor. There are also many magic tricks with sketches, songs and dances, martial arts, acrobatics and other themes, using some special lighting or stage backgrounds, and the magic effect is very average, but the audience looks very comfortable, because this form is rare, and it is also a perspective impact for the audience."

"For example, A performed a prophetic magic trick for me, let me first talk about the effect of this magic trick: I shuffle the cards, and A divides the cards into three stacks in turn, and one by one says the suit and value of the top card in each stack, and then shows the audience the three cards together, so how does A perform it to me?"

A: "I'll do a prophetic magic trick for you, and you shuffle the cards." I shuffled the cards and handed them to A, and he opened the fan to show the playing cards and said, "Let's take a look at this deck of cards, it's normal". But A's eyes at this time are looking at a certain kind of playing cards, as if he is remembering something, and the cards are almost completely against himself, I as a spectator can only see the points and suits of some of the cards, I haven't had time to look at it urgently, he closed it, I guess he remembered a certain card!"

"I felt strange as an audience member, and the performer asked me to check why he was staring at himself, and it closed so quickly, and I didn't even get a chance to see it!"

Then A continued: "I divide the cards into threes". And at this time, the audience was completely in a daze, neither checking the cards, nor participating in this so-called prophetic magic, and A did not tell me, what does my shuffling have to do with this prophetic magic?"

He picked up the top three cards in turn and said, "I'm going to guess these three cards, the first X" and then A looked at the first card, then said: "The second card is X", and then looked at the second card and said, "The third card is X", and then opened them one by one and showed me. But as a spectator, I don't understand why he can't guess one and tell me one, and why does he have to look at the cards and guess them, why don't he let me touch them?"

Mo Qi concluded: "These audience doubts, A did not explain clearly, the audience watching magic is completely on a roller coaster, this is just a magic effect, if A is performing a set of magic tricks, too self-centered, not considering the feelings of the audience, directly led to the failure of the magic show." ”

"So performing magic tricks needs to be linked one by one, to communicate with the audience, to let the audience understand what you are doing, to do something, and on this basis, to do something unexpected for the audience. ”

"We all know the principle, but we are nervous as soon as we get on the field!"

"Yes, I practice very well at home every time, but my hands tremble in front of the audience, and I can't control it!"

"Idol, save us!"

Mo Qi laughed and said: "It's normal to be nervous! Not being nervous means that you don't pay attention to your performance, in fact, it is very easy to overcome nervousness.

"But that's also very difficult for a lot of magic lovers, isn't it? That's okay, I'll teach you a trick: rehearse the magic trick dozens of times before the official performance, and each time you have to perform it according to the actual performance, and during the rehearsal, you have to think about all the unexpected situations that may occur. ”

"For example, what should I do if I encounter Oak making trouble? What should I do if I suddenly forget my words? Because according to my observation, many performers are not nervous on stage, but once there is a small mistake or unexpected situation, they will immediately get nervous, which will directly lead to the failure of the magic, so rehearsal and thinking more before the formal performance are essential!"

"If there is an unexpected situation during the performance, you must adjust your mentality as quickly as possible, take a few more deep breaths, and use words to make up for or solve the siege, so that the audience does not look awkward, you must understand, the audience is a lovely audience, not a killer, you are performing magic tricks not tricks or thousands of tricks, failure is failure, how to succeed without failure? ”