Talent show.. Very soon

[Donald C.]

Our yearly talent show at my school is coming up. This will be my 3rd time performing and I have never lost yet, thats' right 1st place every year. So why break the streak now? Anyways I will be performing Liquify by Richard Sanders this year, and am not positive about the second effect I should perform.
I want something that is just going to knock everyone right out of their seats, last year I performed Wayne Houchins Mouth transposition and Invisible Palm, those 2 effects are hard to beat. I have a video camera that projects everything on a very large screen if you were wondering.
So please help me come up with the 2nd effect I should perform, I was kind of thinking Identity by Richard Sanders or Powerball 60, but I dont know, please help.
Thank you

 

[Jv]

Well, are you looking for something other than cards?

Also, one thing that bothers me about 'Powerball 60' is how do you explain to your audience that you're allowed to play the lottery? I'm 16 and I believe you're 16 or 17, but you have to be 18+ to play... so that's the problem I see myself if I would to perform 'Powerball 60'. Any solutions?

 

[Mat La Vore]

Well, are you looking for something other than cards?

Also, one thing that bothers me about 'Powerball 60' is how do you explain to your audience that you're allowed to play the lottery? I'm 16 and I believe you're 16 or 17, but you have to be 18+ to play... so that's the problem I see myself if I would to perform 'Powerball 60'. Any solutions?

"Every Friday my father plays the lottery. After school he picks me up and he buys a ticket for everyone in the family. These are some of the tickets I've played over the last few weeks..."

 

[Jv]

"Every Friday my father plays the lottery. After school he picks me up and he buys a ticket for everyone in the family. These are some of the tickets I've played over the last few weeks..."

Yeah, true. Maybe I was overthinking it. Although I did think up a few, but never really thought it would pass by the spectators as being true. Also, why is this in the 'Review Section'?

 

[joshrobarts]

some effects you might consider.

A multiple card location a la ricky jay always plays well with crowds, Have many specs call out stop and then reveal them all in unique ways. You could also try a spectator finds the aces similar to a guy hollingworth trick i saw. A shuffling lesson, you could do a lot of things. What i would do, if i was doing a stage show to really spark the crowd. Come out onto stage with a table set up and a bag on the table. Reach into the bag and pull out the materials for your first trick, whatever that is, second trick... Bowling ball from paper bag. Andrew Mayne has a great version in his dvd Shock F/X. It catches them waaaay off guard and gets great reactions. here's a vid, first effect vid

 

[D ICE R]

The biggest advice I can give you is that you should read books about showmanship, and also about character development. If you want to suspend belief you need to understand the psychology of magic more than the technical aspect.

If you take something as simple as a coin vanish everyone can rationally figure out the method of a retention, however if you understand how to make it feel real they will believe that it is real. Make the people care about you and you will give them a better performance. And not just a few tricks that will puzzel them for a few minutes.

 

[Erlos]

Our yearly talent show at my school is coming up. This will be my 3rd time performing and I have never lost yet, thats' right 1st place every year. So why break the streak now? Anyways I will be performing Liquify by Richard Sanders this year, and am not positive about the second effect I should perform.
I want something that is just going to knock everyone right out of their seats, last year I performed Wayne Houchins Mouth transposition and Invisible Palm, those 2 effects are hard to beat. I have a video camera that projects everything on a very large screen if you were wondering.
So please help me come up with the 2nd effect I should perform, I was kind of thinking Identity by Richard Sanders or Powerball 60, but I dont know, please help.
Thank you

I don't know if its possible, but i thought of a concept.

Force a card, lose it in the deck, make random guesses or randomly reveal in a flourish-y way, a card which is not the forced card, give it 2 or 3 tries then apologize for the lack of practice and 'fail attempts' of finding the spectators card (its an act for the last part of the whole performance)

Then jump to next trick, do 'flow by dan hauss', then when the water is coming down towards the end of the trick, let the water flush on to the paper you prepared beforehand (liquify) then throw all the attention to that piece of paper, that reveals the spectators' card.

I feel there is a flow in the whole performance. I don;t know if you actually understand my concept hope you does =/ hahaha.

 

[Donald C.]

I don't know if its possible, but i thought of a concept.

Force a card, lose it in the deck, make random guesses or randomly reveal in a flourish-y way, a card which is not the forced card, give it 2 or 3 tries then apologize for the lack of practice and 'fail attempts' of finding the spectators card (its an act for the last part of the whole performance)

Then jump to next trick, do 'flow by dan hauss', then when the water is coming down towards the end of the trick, let the water flush on to the paper you prepared beforehand (liquify) then throw all the attention to that piece of paper, that reveals the spectators' card.

I feel there is a flow in the whole performance. I don;t know if you actually understand my concept hope you does =/ hahaha.

That is a really nice idea, I will think about that and change it around. As for the multiple card selection, I do stuff likie that all the time in school, and really would like to show the whole school something very unique.
I have no idea why this is nthe review section, I thought I had put in the general section.
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