First of all, the so-called cold field refers to the failure or quasi-failure of the performance in the magic show in addition to the magic skills and props. For example: no one wants to watch magic tricks, no one laughs at jokes, people can't understand magic tricks, there is no applause at the end of the performance, there is either no sound in the whole performance, or everyone talks about themselves and no one looks at you.

Regarding the cold field, I believe everyone has encountered such a problem to a greater or lesser extent. For most people, more than 90% of the time they learn magic is close-up. In other words, communication with the audience becomes an essential job. There are many similar situations, so I will roughly summarize the reasons for the coldness into the following reasons, please take a seat: lack of interaction with the audience, blindly burying your head in hard work, resulting in the audience not knowing what you are doing. There is too much nonsense, and it is nagging and verbose, which causes the audience to be impatient. The speech is unskillful, rhythmic, in short, the audience doesn't like to listen. Magic chooses to miss, too big or too small, too far or too close, too high or too low. Caused by the on-site environment or equipment.

As you can see from the above, the first and the second are exactly two extremes. According to the people around me, the interesting phenomenon is that often when everyone is just in contact with magic, it will be one, and if you persist for a while, you will quickly leap into the second kind (embarrassment ~ this is called overkill ~~) That is to say, this is a "degree" problem. How to grasp this "degree"? Personally, I think it's nothing more than a matter of "fast and slow" and "long and short".

Everyone knows that in magic, some effects can appear in a split second (mostly a single technique, such as secretly hiding a coin). Secretly throw paper balls...... ), while others require a series of processes to manifest (mostly more mature processes, such as chromogenic contagion, super-printing...... So in this way, there's a long and short difference, so what. According to common sense, everyone can also understand that the long should be performed quickly, and the short should be performed slowly.

A complete process, basically already has its fixed rhythm, the performer only needs to follow his rhythm step by step to carry out a smooth performance. In other words, the additional communication that the performer needs to do with the audience (whether it is an interactive audience or an audience under the stage) is just some words that make the audience interested and affinity with you before officially entering the process, usually my approach is, introduce yourself + a cold joke~~ (specifically, leave it in the later chapters). Another point is to remember to talk to your audience from time to time throughout the process

Say something, some of which is used to misquote in language (please refer to Mr. Wang's "Talking about the "Misguidance" of Close-up Magic) in the forum, and the other part is used to tell your audience "Hey! I haven't forgotten your existence! "That's right! You have to have a presence for your audience. Because once you're on your own, you don't care about them at all. They will feel that they are dispensable in your magic show, and they will naturally not be too interested in your magic tricks. But when they knew that the magician needed me to match his performance, it was a different story.

And to slow down the short performance, you need to have a certain amount of experience before you can grasp it well. In other words, in this type of magic trick, the actual performance of the magic project may only be a few seconds (disappearing water, rope through the neck, etc.). Take a long rope through the neck as an example, how much time does it take to go on stage, tie your neck, pull it, bow down from the stage, how much time does this series of processes take at the fastest? The answer is: 30 seconds!

You certainly can't solve this magic trick just 30 seconds on stage, because if you do, the audience will only be baffled (attention!). Not because of the magic of magic, but because of not understanding your actions! ）。 So, if it's just a magic trick, it usually takes about three minutes. In other words, the extra 2 minutes and 30 seconds are used to communicate with your audience. Okay, so here's the point: What am I going to do during this time?

First of all, you have to let the audience know who you are and what you are doing! Whether you're doing a street show or a stage show, the first thing you'll need to do is introduce yourself. And self-introduction needs to be personal. Every viewer will no longer pay special attention to the show at the beginning of the show (unless he is waiting for a specific program).

In other words, when you introduce yourself, you must first draw the audience's attention from the previous show, the other viewers around you, and the melon seeds in front of you (believe me, sometimes this is the hardest.) Pull back before. Tell them who you are and that you are here to give them the best magic show! That is to say, self-introduction should have its own style, whether it is mysterious or funny, in short, it can't be bland, because bland words must not be as attractive as melon seeds!

Tell your audience where their eyes should look! There are many times when people complain that the audience doesn't know where to watch, which either leads to revealing stuffing or causing the performance to be unseen. In fact, please remember that the audience is not a magician, he will not know what to do next, and he will not know where to look!

That is, you must tell the audience how they are going to watch and what to watch. It's a misquote, and it's the key to your performance. To do this, you have a very simple choice, and that is to tell them what will happen next. But it's important to note that you don't necessarily have to tell them the real effect. You know, letting him preconceive and then surprise him often gets better results.

Bring you closer to the audience! Kindness...... Ladies and gentlemen, please don't be eager, I'm not asking you to hug your female audience. You've managed to take their attention away from the seeds, but maybe they'll still miss them, so try to keep their eyes on you. Telling jokes is a good option, as is teasing yourself or the audience. However, if you don't know the temper of the audience on stage, or if you are not too sure about the proportions of your speech, it is better to ridicule yourself.

Grasp the time! Okay, so here's the point, how to get the timing right? Generally speaking, my personal recommendation is that the time for a magic effect to manifest itself is not less than 2 minutes and no more than 4 minutes. At the same time, never throw out several bad jokes in a row in one go. That would freeze the audience to death. Of course, this is just my personal suggestion, how to grasp it, mainly depends on everyone's own positioning of the style, as well as the grasp of the audience's emotions.

Sure enough, I'm more motivated to eat, okay, let's continue our topic. Regarding the third point, speaking skills and rhythm, there is actually a lot to pay attention to. If you happen to learn even the most basic hosting skills, it will be a huge help for you to perform magic tricks. Of course, I'm not advertising for the training institution of the broadcaster, the so-called learning, as long as everyone watches TV, constantly imitates, and explores, you can find a way. In terms of specific recommendations, I will only mention a few small tips for now.

Think ahead of time what you're going to say. Sometimes people see magicians saying funny things casually, and they mistakenly think that they are purely improvised. That would be a big mistake. No matter who he is, when he stands on the stage, it is absolutely impossible for him to be able to improvise under such tremendous pressure. In other words, at least 80% of what you want to say on stage and the burden you have to shake need to be prepared in advance.