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junior_way New user 20 Posts |
How can you make your metalism show last longer? You can't do to many tricks cuz they will get bored(predicting, guessing over and over again)! And you can make tricks that are diferent as an effect but the show is to short. How can you make it longer?
PS: sorry for my english
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Tony Razzano Inner circle South River, NJ 1600 Posts |
My answer to this and all of your other questions is tro start by reading Ken Weber's book Maxium Entertainment.
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<BR>Tony Razzano, Past President, PEA Winner of the PEA"s Bascom Jones and Bob Haines Awards |
Scott Xavier Inner circle 3672 Posts |
Have you tried a theme? Whats your purpose as an entertainer? Whats your purpose to the show?
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Tony Iacoviello Eternal Order 13151 Posts |
Thanks Scott.
Good questions! |
Reuben Dunn Inner circle Has a purple ribbon wraped around my 1592 Posts |
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On 2006-11-19 06:55, junior_way wrote: I get the impression you might be thinking of this in terms of being a "magician" and not as a "mentalist"; there is a BIG difference, IMO. I have anything beween 6-8 effects per show, design/word/picture duplication, assorted word (book) tests, Chronologue, Si Stubbins, Cassidy's Psychological Thrillers, a newspaper clip 'n snip, and a headline prediction of sorts. I might throw in a name/place routine using the centre tear, rather than a billet switch. The point of all this is this: Were I to do all these effects back to back, then the audience would, to a limited extent, still be amazed, astounded etc., but the show would end after 15 minutes at the most, if that long. However you appear to leave out the inter-play between yourself and the audience. In my, admitedly limited experience, the perfoming style of a magician doing a cabaret show is, in many instances a bit different from that of a mentalist/psychic entertainer doing his/her set in a similar setting. I echo the comments earlier, in addition suggest you consider what it is you want to acomplish with your performance; what kind of persona do you want to portray? What kind of interplay do you hope to have with your audience? There's a LOT more to it, then duplicating a picture, bending a spoon, or figuring out which word in a book the "volunteer" has chosen. I personaly see it as a combination of acting, public speaking, and then being technically able to do a centre tear etc. Just a few things for you/us all to consider/re-consider. |
ChuckHickok Loyal user 245 Posts |
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On 2006-11-19 13:38, Scott Xavier wrote: Add to these questionsabove the following questions: 1)What "mental abilities" do you want to claim and demonstrate? 2)How did you acquire these abilities 3)What order do you want to demonstrate these abilities? 4)How many times in a demonstration do you want to display an ability? In all my routines I have several "Moments of Amazement" - times when I display the ability being examined. Example: I a "influencing" routine, I will influence three diffferent choices using three different methods. I can do an 60-70 minute show focused on 5 basic abilities: a)Rapid math b)Memory c)Influencing people's choices d)Telepathy e)Predicting future outcomes. But MOST IMPORTANT - people are interested in YOU. Have a presentation that lets people learn about your world and your abilities as you entertain and amaze them. Chuck Hickok |
JohnCressman Special user Allentown, PA 903 Posts |
Many magicians blast through the "patter" in order to get to the TRICK.
Mentalism is nearly the opposite, YOU are the effect, really... so what you say is nearly as important as what you do. Generally, I start off with a short explanation of ESP. I then ask if anyone thinks they are psychic as well. This does a few things. First, it gives me an idea of receptive volunteers for later. Second, it gets the audience involved and believing - in their minds, if some of the people in the audience believe they're psyhic, then maybe THIS guy COULD be. Third, it also gives me somewhat of a gauge to know what type of audience I'm working with - skeptics, believers, etc. Next, I go back to my explanation of ESP and start talking about the easiest measure of ESP... J.B. Rhine and symbols, etc. I start off by doing a symbol experiment of thought transmission, then go more complex from there. Each time, I go into a short explantion of how much more difficult this next effect was from the previous. This build-up does a few things... it makes the effects "seem" more difficult, it explains what they are about to see and it burns time. Remember, they know NOTHING about ESP... so they don't know if what you're doing now if easier or harder, better or worse, etc. unless you tell them... and of course, a little acting also helps. =) I don't know if that helps, but that's what I do and I really don't have an issue with time. |
Steve Suss Inner circle 1193 Posts |
I agree with the comments above but would also like to add that the show is not only about you as an entertainer it is also about them. Are you getting the audience emotionally involved? Do they believe what you do is real?
One of the most powerful effects in mentalism is the question and answer effect. Why? Because it involves the most important and personal information anyone might want to know. Information about themselves. I've seen successful Psychic entertainers perform for over an hour with just this effect alone. So, make your presentations as entertaining as possible but do try to get as much audience involvement as possible. They won't lose interest if the subject involves themselves. |
Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
If an audience is interested in you as a person and/or performer you'll find that extending your show becomes less of a problem as you will not need to be so focused on the effects you are doing. If they like you, find you entertaining and you can sustain that that interest there's no reason why you couldn't do the same basic effects (say predictions of different kinds) for the whole show.
JohnCressman said "YOU are the effect". I agree totally. However unlike John I think this applies not just to mentalists but also to magicians and come to that comedians, singers, instrumentalists and anyone else hoping to entertain the general public at large. Neal.
Neal Austin
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