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Street Magic Series

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AlfieWhattamMagic

Nov 7, 2009
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So when it comes to summer me and my cousen are planning to make a street magic series of videos... He will film me performing and I will post it on the internet. Ive been woundering how many tricks should I need for a 20 minute video? So far I plan on doing:

Cross Arm twist
Digital Dissolve
Double lift change in their hands
Card to mouth
Ladies Looking glass variation
2 Card Transpo
Card 'Mind read'

I want some other effects that dont involve cards maybe just 1 more...
Any reccomendatons? Please nothing to expensive. Or is this enough?
Thanks anyway :)
 
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I would suggest cutting that list to maybe half. It's better to have about 3 or 4 tricks taking 8 minutes than having 7 or 8 tricks in that allotted time. You need to build up a story and a great presentation to make their reactions the best. A 1 minute performance isn't going to do it. You may get a "That was pretty cool," but if you want "oh my god!" reactions than practice building up a story that would make sense and really builds up the effect.

Cheers,

Casey
 
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Perceptiv3CardMagic said:
I would suggest cutting that list to maybe half. It's better to have about 3 or 4 tricks taking 8 minutes than having 7 or 8 tricks in that allotted time. You need to build up a story and a great presentation to make their reactions the best. A 1 minute performance isn't going to do it. You may get a "That was pretty cool," but if you want "oh my god!" reactions than practice building up a story that would make sense and really builds up the effect.

Cheers,

Casey
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Ok lets say this is now a 20 minute video then... Restart :)
 
Perceptiv3CardMagic said:
I'm trying to give you advice and you're not taking it seriously. Just apply what I said in my first post and work it out for yourself if you aren't going to listen to me.
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I don't think he's saying that he's going to do all those tricks for one person.

Just do 2-3 or maybe even 4 tricks to each group, but use his advice! Then edit them together.
 
William Draven said:
Your going to need to plan. For 40 minutes if you plan to film 20. Trust me.
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At least.

Probably film over a few days too, it'll make things easier. Go out and perform the same 3-5 tricks over and over to different audiences and then a different set of tricks after a few days. Feel free to improvise, but a good 20 minute video that has very little dead air will take minimum 40 minutes of video, you should shoot for an hours worth of filming though.
 
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