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.

He may have three choices. First, he can go through his personal magic library manually and search for ideas. Second, he can create one himself. Third, he can buy someone else's creation. With the help of the internet and YouTube and stuff, the process becomes easier.

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.

First method magicians would use when attempting to add an effect to his routine, is to search for the tricks or gimmicks that achieve the general effect. Taking production as an example, there are thousands of tricks that provide such effect. But the trick being chosen usually determines what kind of object is used. Like the raven, it is only suitable for vanishing small magnetic objects. After deciding what object to be used, the magician then modify it to suit his use.

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.

So try creating routines of your own using the above methods!

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