There are actually several tricks that accomplish this. Where the only thing that you need is audience management.
At least some people are open to what I say without just thinking I’m lying.
The trick is that there is no trick. If u say you’re a magician or mentalist than they expect one. Effect or trick whatever. Think about cold reading. You are just talking to them and they tell u the info you are meant to say to them. They believe you read their mind etc
What Hallmark greeting card did you steal that from?
Oh, this should be good. Cite your sources. All of them. I want to see if you actually got this info from somewhere or if you're just making it up. Guess which one I'm leaning on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjxkHM-hQM
This is the one guy I was on about for the first
One of the main things I live by is the truth. I don’t make things up. (Well maybe not while I’m performing, but the audience can always talk to me after the show. you don’t really call an actor a liar really)
Maybe I’m wrong, I’ve not got the best memory (especially with names) but I would not say something is I was not sure. If I knew it would cause me not to be trusted then I would have not said. Magicians are not jugglers or clowns, we are more than that (forget the magic is art stuff) it is because we perform. (Yeah u can say clowns perform but I don’t think I need to explain the different between a clown and a magician)
This traveling magician (again I do not remember his name, if I find which book I got it from I will post it (therefore I do not expect u to believe me)) doing shows, not street acts. So he would have to drum interest. He set up a trick in a snooker hall where he made a ball fly and broke the glass and he got asked to pay to get it repaired. He collected and covered the glass and u get the rest. (glass as in window not drinking glass) not this guy did all this before I was born so u know with magic and anything things get hyped up as time passes. If I’m wrong don’t hate me. [/QUOTE]
What Hallmark greeting card did you steal that from?
Now with what you said here I say this. To have a good play you need good actors, stage direction etc. you need more than a perfectly scripted play. No matter how great the play should be you need props, sound actors to send the messages, emotions across.
To make a good magician u need more than a good trick. Anyone can learn sleight of hand. Yeah people learn at different rates but anyone can do one. Loads of people know one (maybe not a good one) loads of people know the magician choice but it takes a good magician or mentalist to be undetected with it. I had a spec show me a trick involving magician choice and I did it right back at him. He did not realise. You may not like how corny I sound. Maybe I should be better with words (or at least learn how to spell). All these things like crowd control and patter are meant to set an atmosphere. Atmosphere sets emotion and feel.
I would expect to know this so don’t think I’m treating you like your stupid but magic is not just about people jumping around like crazy, give the biggest reactions. Sometimes it is having silence or even rarer causing a bit of fear. Even just a nice fun enjoyable time.
Again maybe I’m wrong I’m open to wise words. My main reason on this forum is to learn (because one should never stop learning) and I expect others are on this place for that reason. So I say what I think to be true. The last thing I would want to do is give wrong advice.