Methods Of Creating Magic Tricks

How do magicians go about it when they desire to cause something to appear mysteriously? To perform magical creation? To accomplish apparently miraculous production? At present, there are three general expedients.

For example, when he would like to add a production effect to the routine, he usually has three choices of action. To read books on magic, to watch performances of fellow magicians or to visit magic shops over and over again.

When magicians decide to add an effect to his routine, he shouldn't just add it because it is in itself interesting to him. He must consider the appearance of the effect, the impact, the outlook, etc. Is this effect suitable for my routine? The performer must ask this before added any effect to the repertoire. An effect should only be added if it does provide value to the performer's magical act.

After searching for the internet and magic shops, you are going to find a number of tricks that is related to what you require. However, magic tricks and gimmicks usually define what objects are involved in the magical effect it creates. For example, an appearing cane gimmick would only allow you to produce a cane. Therefore, the magician must have the creativity to modify the trick or gimmick in order to fits it well into his routine. Sometimes he might even need to reconsider his own routine to allow the magic effect to be properly added into. So the outcome might be quite different from what he thought, but the magician should work it around to solve the problem.

A more accurate magician would do the process in a different manner. First, he determines to add production effect of some kind to his routine. Then he decides the object being produced that is matching to the routine's theme, flow or story. After that, he searches for books, videos, magic shops for production effects using the chosen object. This makes his search narrower. If unfortunately he is not able to find a good production with the specific object, he will have to choose another object to be used in the act. He might have to change the story a little bit and use something else and do the search again until he finds what he needs.

A successful magician always has his own style of performance. Try the above process and create your signature act!

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This post was written by Magician Wong on December 12, 2009

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