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deerbourne Regular user Centennial, CO 174 Posts |
I've been wrestling with this for a week or so, mostly because I really take the notion that it is improper to critize our brethren, but for the sake of the larger argument I try to summarize as delicately as possible.
My wife, my best critic and confidant, was lucky enough to be present during a video taping in a club. The magician (who will remain anonymous) spent around an hour trying to do one effect for some folks at a table. Due to problems, I can only assume was due to a lack of practice (the performer said so at one point), much of the effect was essentially laid out for the spectators so the cameras could get it perfect. The magician had to stop at least once to have an 'assistant' reset the apparatus involved. Now for the sake of the cameras, I have a problem. Certainly when the editing is done it will look great to whoever sees it, but essentially the effect was shown to all involved. Is this common in television produced magic? Is this type of exposure common? I know that the people invited were specifically non-magicians (to get more honest reactions) so they had no prior knowledge of magic technique. Chris |
JackScratch Inner circle 2151 Posts |
My problem is a little less with the spectators getting to see how the effect was done and a little more with this modern trend of creating magic using editing. I am fine with editing helping to show what actualy happend more clearly to the viewing audience, but making things look better than they actualy did in the real moment is just not magic. It's Starwars.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Kind of depends on how the director story boarded the scene.
I suspect it would take several cameras and somve fancy lighting shoot something that approximates an audience experience in one take.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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