To Help You Out,
You Need To Do Something Right Off The Bat. Don't Go Up To Them Saying "Hello! I'm ____ Would You Like To See Some Magic, I'm A Magician."
If Your Into Cards, You Can Do Two Things That Are Really Cool. Palm Off Half The Deck And Make Cards come Out Of Your Mouth. Or You can Palm Off Cards And Make Them Appear Out Of An Audience Members Ear.
If Your Into Coins, Make One Appear Out Of their Ear, And Go Into Some Sort Of Patter And Routine.
Also A Side Note: I Don't Recommend This But, If You Know Any Flourishes Go ahead And Do Them For The Audience, Or Wait Until They Come To You ETC. The Reason I Don't Recommend It Is Because You Don't Want Them To Think Your Skilled. I Am Probably Telling You Something You Already Know Though.
Just Some Thoughts,
- Zac
What!?
To be sincere, if you are going for this kind of magic, then you are going for shock magic, that means that you are going to just come, do magic and that's all, they're just to remember you as a guy that does cool card tricks...
Now, as performers, we are aiming for something more than that, we are aiming to get a lasting impression in them, something emotional, something that goes beyond a simple "cool card trick".
That's where the patter and the rapport comes in, we need have a motivation for everything we do (including the way we approach people)..... For example , in an ambitous card routine, you put the card in the middle, you make it come to the top, bla bla bla, but why? why do you put the card in the middle and make it jump to the top? It all has to have a reason.
Including when you approach people... Let's imagine this situation:
" I am eating with my friends , we are talking, we laughing and then from nowhere , a guy appears, he makes cards to come out of his mouth, he puts them in my face and says "hey! I do magic! take a card!" and he puts this deck of cards in front of my face"
I mean, don't get me wrong, it does sometimes work, but let's remember that we are entering their personal space, we are asking for their attention and time, for what purpose? it is recommendable to try to know them first withouth cards so that you can gain some rapport (wich can help you later
) so you can perform easily and with better results.
It is kinda sad that later on when you see this people again, they remember you as "the guy that does tricks" rather than "the guy wich name I remember that gave us a memorable time"...
Just my thoughts people, im open for a nice discussion here...