Best Effect?
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Well, before everyone on this forum jumps you about using the search function.
I think your question was a bit vague and general.
It depends on who is performing the effect, whether or not the spectators have been emotionally hooked, patter, entertainment value, and a whole lot more of other factors.
I get very good reactions out of Biddle, a Sloppy Triumph Routine, Crazy Man Handcuffs, Stimata and a few other regulars that I perform.
You are going to get 1,000 different responses from different members. What works for someone may be a terrible effect for another magician.
Just food for thought.
I think your question was a bit vague and general.
It depends on who is performing the effect, whether or not the spectators have been emotionally hooked, patter, entertainment value, and a whole lot more of other factors.
I get very good reactions out of Biddle, a Sloppy Triumph Routine, Crazy Man Handcuffs, Stimata and a few other regulars that I perform.
You are going to get 1,000 different responses from different members. What works for someone may be a terrible effect for another magician.
Just food for thought.
I agreed with reverhart. There's not really a "best effect", but it usually depends on the audience and the patter. For me, personally, it's Card Across by Bill Malone (please correct me if I credit to the wrong person), Five Speed and 2 Card Monte.
You will notice that nobody is replying to your thread because a lot of people just come on here and ask basically the same thing you did.
"What is the best blah blah blah....?
"What is the best blah blah blah....?
Well, you deal off 21 cards, and then......
What effect do you enjoy watching the most? Why do you enjoy it? Is it because it was entertaining or impossible, or both? Take a good effect, present it poorly, and it stinks. Take a simple effect, present it very well, and it's good.
It's been said many times over, but presentation is key to any effect.
j
What effect do you enjoy watching the most? Why do you enjoy it? Is it because it was entertaining or impossible, or both? Take a good effect, present it poorly, and it stinks. Take a simple effect, present it very well, and it's good.
It's been said many times over, but presentation is key to any effect.
j
Not taking into account practicality, or anything from a magician's perspective, i'd say Tagged by Rich Ferguson. But do what is good for you. If you can, check out The Trilogy by Dan and Dave, Dangerous by Daniel Madison, Ultragaff by Wayne Houchin and Daniel Garcia, and The Daniel Garcia Project, and Symphony. If you have those, you will have a rock solid arsenal (unless you dont like card magic)
Pressure, The Big Tiny, Extraordinary Proof, Angle Zero, and the good ol' fashioned Ambitious Card!
I'll save him some search work.
I'm going to keep posting this in every single thread of this type I find. Though I haven't posted this for a while.
I posted this before, and it's always the same.
Here's an idea. Look for them yourself, find the ones that work for yourself, and make them "hard hitting"! In all honestly, looking for the shortcut by asking for "best of" effects isn't gonna do you any favours, and 95% of the time will not get you the most hard-hitting effects you can perform. That's right, asking for good tricks will actually, the majority of the time, get you tricks that, when performed by you, will be second rate and extremely common. So you'll be performing the same old stuff and probably not as well as you could be.
Rather than ask "Where can I find the best effect", ask "Where can I find effects (possibly of x plot or from x magician)", go out, look through everything, and find what works for you. You want average material, ask for "hard hitting"effects. And if you're satisfied with decent, go ahead. Some people are happy with being decent, and that's fine. But if you want to be better than that, with the best material and the highest possible impact? You'll have to work harder than that.
The main reason for this is that the strongest effect in my arsenal, in all honestly, would probably not work at all for you. This is due to many reasons - personality, presentation, and just the effect in general. Many, many people for example list Stigmata as their strongest effect, and many people buy it. You wanna know the truth, 95% of people's presentation of Stigmata is ****. Stigmata could be so, so much more. I'd bet my money that half the people who've said Stigmata in this thread can't present it to save their lives, and could easily improve their own performances. But no, they rely on the effect, rather than relying on themselves as a performer, and this separates the chaff from the wheat.
If you really want strong effects, you need to tell us what you're interested in, specifically, a plot or an author. Then you need to go look at everything by that author or on that plot, and decide what works for you, use that knowledge to mix the effects together, and base a presentation on what appeals to you, not what appeals to us. My favourite effect happens to be Zamiel's Rose, and yet I barely know anyone who has the personality to pull it off, so I never suggest it, it would be a travesty, the epitome of ruining magic. I mean what do you want me to say - follow your instructions exactly, and give you an effect that won't suit you and you won't be able to make the most of? I'd rather say this, the truth.
This is not to say we (or I) don't want to help. This is to say, rather, that it should be the right help, if you really want the best magic.
Go buy a book or something, that's where the good stuff is.
I'm going to keep posting this in every single thread of this type I find. Though I haven't posted this for a while.
I posted this before, and it's always the same.
Here's an idea. Look for them yourself, find the ones that work for yourself, and make them "hard hitting"! In all honestly, looking for the shortcut by asking for "best of" effects isn't gonna do you any favours, and 95% of the time will not get you the most hard-hitting effects you can perform. That's right, asking for good tricks will actually, the majority of the time, get you tricks that, when performed by you, will be second rate and extremely common. So you'll be performing the same old stuff and probably not as well as you could be.
Rather than ask "Where can I find the best effect", ask "Where can I find effects (possibly of x plot or from x magician)", go out, look through everything, and find what works for you. You want average material, ask for "hard hitting"effects. And if you're satisfied with decent, go ahead. Some people are happy with being decent, and that's fine. But if you want to be better than that, with the best material and the highest possible impact? You'll have to work harder than that.
The main reason for this is that the strongest effect in my arsenal, in all honestly, would probably not work at all for you. This is due to many reasons - personality, presentation, and just the effect in general. Many, many people for example list Stigmata as their strongest effect, and many people buy it. You wanna know the truth, 95% of people's presentation of Stigmata is ****. Stigmata could be so, so much more. I'd bet my money that half the people who've said Stigmata in this thread can't present it to save their lives, and could easily improve their own performances. But no, they rely on the effect, rather than relying on themselves as a performer, and this separates the chaff from the wheat.
If you really want strong effects, you need to tell us what you're interested in, specifically, a plot or an author. Then you need to go look at everything by that author or on that plot, and decide what works for you, use that knowledge to mix the effects together, and base a presentation on what appeals to you, not what appeals to us. My favourite effect happens to be Zamiel's Rose, and yet I barely know anyone who has the personality to pull it off, so I never suggest it, it would be a travesty, the epitome of ruining magic. I mean what do you want me to say - follow your instructions exactly, and give you an effect that won't suit you and you won't be able to make the most of? I'd rather say this, the truth.
This is not to say we (or I) don't want to help. This is to say, rather, that it should be the right help, if you really want the best magic.
Go buy a book or something, that's where the good stuff is.