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Thoughts as they occur to me. 0:07 - Points off already. I couldn't see your face and that font was ugly. 0:09 - I really hope the music gets better. 0:12 - Why did that camera go out of focus? Did you leave autofocus on? 0:26 - It all looks pretty smooth, but you linger too long before...

Thoughts as they occur to me. 0:09 - Okay, you get a gold star for an interesting intro with music that is appropriate to what's going on on camera. 0:20 - Another gold star for showing your face! 0:36 - At this point I would done something other than spinning the cards. 0:47 - Okay, now you're...

In addition to "Hiding the Elephant" there's also the biography "The Secret Life of Houdini: the Making of America's First Superhero." For the longview history, Milbourne Christopher's "The Illustrated History of Magic" is one of the best. David Blaine also touches on some history in his...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9_L-2k2zxA That level of drama did not justify the 5 seconds of actual effect we got to see. I'm not even going to comment on how bad some of the framing was. For the effect itself, it's a neat little one-off, but I'm wondering if this might be the same...

It's not a bad outline, though I would say that in some cases it's also worth it to go into the blocking, angles, what moments are best to be talking so that you can pull off the moves, that sort of thing. Use your judgment.

I gave you the wrong idea. I market myself as a mentalist separately from my company, Witching Hour Productions. WHP is New Media production, but raising the capital to get our projects going is the hard part. We're all paying off our student loans, working day jobs, and trying to find a way...

No kidding. I've thought about watching that, but it keeps slipping off my radar. Okay, I admit, I've been plowing through my Twilight Zone boxed set for like the 4th time. I'm working on getting my own production company off the ground. Between student loans and the difficulty finding...

If you're looking for memory as the plot, might I suggest Luke Jermay's Reverse Gestalt Moment if you don't have it already, and I believe Andrew Mayne's Focal Point follows such a theme. About a year ago, the Science Channel had a special called Mind Games. There was an entire segment in...

This is one of the better videos I've seen lately, though I would do away with the wipe. It's not really intrusive, but see if you can find a better transition as wipes have largely fallen out of style in editing. Anyway, you'll want to look up Harry Lorrayne's The Memory Book. I personally...

I'm a screenwriter and digital video auteur. Kind of a control freak so I write, direct, edit and score everything myself. I sometimes wonder if this is going to cause me to have a stroke before I turn 50. I'm also a musician. I write my own music, primarily in rock and metal, and play...

Thank you! People seem to think that on the internet spelling and grammar don't matter. Yes they do. They think that outside of English class no one cares about capital letters and proper punctuation. Yes they do. They act like the ability to put one word in front of another is impressive...

Okay, dude, I'm telling you this to help you. This still sounds really amateurish. You've never marketed an effect before but you know what you're doing? That's a bit of a hard sell. Hate to tell you this, but you're going to have to prove through action that you've got the goods. Then you...

Well with that proposition out of the way, the first question is, "Who are you?" Have you published anything before? What about this deal is so beneficial? Why should someone work with you instead of doing their own thing? You want to treat this like a business, those are questions you...

Life does not work that way. No one owes you anything, least of all an answer. Get used to it. Then stop thinking like a wannabe and start thinking like an entrepreneur. You attempted to put this on the Wire, marketing a solution to a need that you imagined people had. It was vanity...

Asking a spectator to freely name a thing instead of using a force really doesn't make that much practical difference to the end result. Why do psychological forces usually work? Because when given a bunch of options, people tend to pick the easiest ones because those stand out amidst the sea...

What about the laws of physics? People need to stop pretending that limitations are a bad thing. Limitations are what drives innovation in the first place. Didn't any of you ever play the Mass Effect games? "Limitations drive progress. Can't catch food, so invent spear. Can't carry load...

Just do a medium shot, they're not difficult. Catch at least the torso and head in the frame with a couple of inches of room above the top of the head. Keep the camera at about chest level for the best angle. If people can't see the flourish at that distance, the problem isn't with the...

My response in the duplicate thread you made because approval-seeking threads are like potato chips: one is just not enough.

Show me your face and pick music that fits a little better. That said, why should this go on the Wire? Sell me on this.

We've never met before, but after reading this... I kind of want to slap you. I'm guessing the reason they didn't accept this is specifically because there are already so many similar flourishes out on the market. Hell, Darryl has been marketing a card spin almost identical to that for years...