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Shortelz Regular user I am proud of my 132 Posts |
Hey I recently posted a performance of Cartoon deck and it was pretty horrible. I decided to change stuff a bit and this is what it came out to be... It sucks pretty bad so please give constructive feedback. Btw: I have been working on my card handling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJa3P3Bbu5U |
Card-Shark Inner circle Germany 1758 Posts |
Hmm, it is hard to say something without hurting you too much. My best advice would be: find a (good, older) magician in your neighbourhood as a mentor and learn from him. He will help you to perform naturally, get your own persona and get better pretty fast.
If you do this only by your own don´t expect to get better very much. Getting advice from a teacher will help you enormously. Cheers
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
I will give you two techincal production details to consider regardless of your skill level.
1. Lighting 2. You should be more interesting than the "trick". ALWAYS include your face in filming in the future. |
Shortelz Regular user I am proud of my 132 Posts |
@Card-Shark To bad there is no magicians I know in winnipeg
@Tom You can see my face at the beginning lmao |
solrak29 Special user NY Metro 936 Posts |
I would say not bad in execution though you have to work on the erdenase? change.
Presentation wise, I thought you did too much proving. That could be based on the camera performance, but there is no need to over prove. Try not to say, "just like that" or "ok" a lot in your patter. But most of all you don't need to explain every action that you doing or say this is a "cartoon deck". Keep it simple at first...come up with a theme of why you are performing the effect. Example, you try to read their mind and fail so you call upon your assistant..whala..there is your thought of card. Good show and keep practicing...give it another run.... Hope this helps...
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Shortelz Regular user I am proud of my 132 Posts |
That has helped alot! Thanks very much
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scottishsweetie New user Edinburgh, Scotland 88 Posts |
Shortelz - I like the idea of using an Erdnase Change to make the magician appear. It needs some work though. Can I suggest you go to http://www.theory11.com/1on1/? Currently on the 5th page you will find a tutorial called "Classic Color Change". It is free and will give you a very good walkthrough in making the Erdnase change invisible.
Good presentations take time to get right. You are giving more of a demo in your presentation, try to make it more like you were performing for an audience and as solrak29 said don't over explain. Simple patter might be: "Please name any card in the deck....the three of clubs excellant." - Run through the cards and place the card on the table - no need to explain what you doing, the audience can see. As you are doing this say something like. "This is actually a very interesting deck of cards as it contains it's own built-in magician. Would you like to meet him?" - Try to time this with having the selection on the table and the deck being turned face down. - Perform the Erdnase change "This is Phil the magician and he has the ability to read minds. In fact before you even said the three of clubs he knew you were going to pick that card. Let me show you" - Riffle down the deck and show the three of clubs coming out of the hat. The audience can see that he is on every page and that he pulls the correct card out so there is no need to tell them what is happening at this point. The three of clubs is staring them in the face and on the table and the effect will blow them away. Email some of the guys here: http://magicclubofwinnipeg.tripod.com/theclub.htm See if any of them know of people who would be willing to tutor you. There might be magic camps or events that you could go to. Hope this helps in some way, Mark |
Steven Youell V.I.P. 3866 Posts |
I want to say something here.
In the last week or so I've seen Shortelz post a video, take every criticism and piece of advice from those who gave it and try it again. I've seen him working through Royal Road as some suggested. This is excellent. If he continues to take criticism this well and to listen to advice this well he will improve greatly. Not all advice is good advice, but he listens. Not all critique is kind, but again-- he listens. He has not been discouraged and he keeps trying. I am impressed. SEY |
pearljamjeff Inner circle Ann Arbor 1247 Posts |
I am also impressed. The desire to keep improving that this young man has is evident. It inspires me to also seek to continue improving all the time. That being said, there's a big difference between these two mindsets:
1. It will never be good enough. 2. It can always be better. They say essentially the same thing, but if you focus on number one, that is the path to frustration. If you focus on number two, that is the path to joy and success. Don't put yourself down, my friend. Stop telling us that it "sucks" or it's "horrible." Let us know that you are working on it, and want it to be the best you can make it. "Constructive" criticism starts with yourself. No need to put yourself down when you are clearly working so hard. Keep it up!!
Jeff Travilla - I own an advertising agency to help finance my magic addiction.
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