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Dan Monroe Loyal user Indiana 209 Posts |
Hi Richard thanks for being here. I have used several of your routines from your DVDs and they always go over great! My question is this Have you ever got billets that you could not read because they were wrote in a sloppy manner and how do you handle this? And also have you ever misread a billet that caused an effect to fall flat? If so could you tell us about it and how you handled it.
Thanks, Dan
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Richard Osterlind V.I.P. 2213 Posts |
Dan,
I mentioned some options in another response here. But let me also say that there is nothing wrong with taking a billet, being unable to read it and just declare, "I'm sorry, but I just can't seem to get it." Another ruse, which I never see mentioned because the "golden rule" is to try to make the audience forget the paper and think you are doing something telepathic is to say, "Please think of the way you wrote that name. Picture your paper in your mind." See? Then you can say, "Well, I get the impression of a round letter up front, but I can't make out if it is an A or an O. Then there is some squigley lines and then there is an l and y at the end." When they look at the writing, you have gotten it perfectly. Along these lines I sometimes also tell the person to picture the writing in their mind. Then I take a paper and "reproduce" what I saw. When the drawings are compared, its like a design thing! They don't care if yours is sloppy if it is just like theirs. You often have to change the effect to get out of a jam! To answer your second questions, once in awhile I will call out what I saw instead of what the name is. But when that happens I just point out that I don't claim to be 100% right (a line used by Dunninger throughout his career) and that I got "pretty close." That can actually make it seem more real. Hope all that rambling helped. Richard |
Anabelle Special user 951 Posts |
Doing your PCT I've actually had this happen to me, and I was only able to kind of make the name, like maybe the first letter and sort of what the name was and it happened that they were floored, it seemed even more real than getting the name (which is always amazing in itself). Now I just don't care what they write, I never ask them to print, I realize I can always pick something from it and go with that.
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Richard Osterlind V.I.P. 2213 Posts |
Right. If you can't read it, treat it like a design duplication or anything where you get the "gist" of it.
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