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RancidClone New user 71 Posts |
I'm a human being and like all human beings I make mistakes. When I do some tricks to friends I mess up rarely but sometimes it does happen. Today I was doing a trick and I lost the persons chosen card in the center. Now this was only to one person, thank goodness 40 people weren't around. What would you do then?
So that's my question. Since most people have more experience than me I'd like to know what some of you do when you screw up. Like I really couldn't think of anything besides one thing: having a plan B, kind of like taking that same trick and forgetting about the card and doing something else, but that doesn't make sense to me. So what do you do |
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felix501 Regular user Lewes, England 134 Posts |
There are a lot of recovery lines you can use and previously posted on the Café.
However, I think it's good to just improvise something that suits the occasion. Could be anything - like stopping suddenly, acting all psychic and then revealing you've had a psychic flash..... that it's possible .... that the trick has just buggered up. could be quite amusing with the right kind of acting off the top of my head... |
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RancidClone New user 71 Posts |
I guess almost anything is better than saying "oops"
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Samuel Special user Norway 831 Posts |
Someone allways carry a ID for these cases
You can just ask for the card, then search for the aces (and get the card) - do a ace trick, and end with changing the aces (or one) to the chosen card
Samuel
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RancidClone New user 71 Posts |
That's a clever idea
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Samuel Special user Norway 831 Posts |
Thank you very much
If you own the Bill Malone series, he does a great trick that you can utilize in that
Samuel
Magic is everywhere |
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DanielTyler New user New York 95 Posts |
If you don't react, the audience won't react.
There are out-lines you can use, tricks to take it in a different direction, etc. but if you don't have any of them on hand, the default thing to do is just relax, act like nothing's gone wrong, and move forward. It seems a bit counter-intuitive to just "do nothing," but it is unbelievably effective. In your case, I lose the card and I don't know what it is, I just wave my hand dismissively and say, "You know what, you're not ready for that yet, let me show you this first." Move forward. That's just my plan of action, I'd recommend it. |
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RancidClone New user 71 Posts |
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If you don't react, the audience won't react. I love that advice. It totally makes sense. I'd also prefer the change into another trick method, that's always good. No one said they would cry yet? |
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James F Inner circle Atlanta 1096 Posts |
Also, glimpsing the card everytime one is selected can help you in this situation. I know it may seem stupid to glimpse a card when you don't need to, but it can be VERY helpful if you lose control of the card.
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ash_arani New user 54 Posts |
First of all, if you can force cards... Do it. Classic force is really deceptive. In case you lose the selected card, you can do few different things. If you have the Invisible Deck... Use it.. If you didn't carry one, then ask them to concentrate hard. Then tell them they are not. Ask them to choose another one, just naturally, no big deal and ask them to concetrate even harder when they see it.
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MagikDavid Loyal user Cincinnati, OH 297 Posts |
Magician realizes the card is hopelessly lost in the deck...
MAGICIAN: "Now sir, name your card." SPECTATOR: "The six of spades." MAGICIAN: "You are absolutely right, sir." ...immediately go into your next trick. As an afterthought say, "You didn't expect ME to actually NAME your card, did you? That would REALLY have been amazing, now wouldn't it?" Sounds corny, but it actually gets laughs. They think I just threw it in as a joke. Not the best 'out', but just another way to handle the situation. Dave
One good thing about being wrong...
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pkg Inner circle The City of Ithobaal I son of Hiram I 1356 Posts |
Magician continues shuffling the deck
spectator watches desperately, magicians draws any card, and says "This is your card!" spectator says no, magician says "now it is..." dunno if it makes any sense in english but in lebanese it's some sort of a joke, easy way out and always work! dunno if this will be of any help, but I would go with what Magikdavid said...when a trick fails, turn it into a joke!!
Double posters should be shot!
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the levitator Special user Spellbound Productions 546 Posts |
There are some great ideas here. I think the main thing is to take a page from Eugene Burger and go that extra step in preparing for mistakes. Take every effect you perform, and figure out some worst case scenarios, things that can go wrong. Then just script out where you go if that ever happens. That way, you don't have to worry about reacting because you will already know what you are going to do. One tip though, when you are practicing your effects, you should practice making mistakes too. I spent months planning recoveries for all my effects, but never really practicing them actually happening. The first time something went wrong, I couldn't remember what I had planned on doing. I eventually recovered, but it was then that I realized that it's probably a good idea to practice getting yourself in a pickle so that the move to plan B is much smoother than my first attempt. It's a lot more work than just learning effects, but many say that the difference between a good magician and a great magician is not how well they performs their effects, but how well they recover from mistakes.
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sunnydolan Veteran user Opelika, Alabama 342 Posts |
If you mess up, the best thing to do, is just move on. Lets say you were doing an ambitous card routine. You lose a break, or lose their card completely, just say thank you, find their card, give it back and move on to an ace production or a pick a card trick. DaneilTyler said if you don't react, your audiance wont.
An amatuer practices untill he gets it right, a professinal practices untill he can't get it wrong.
Don't wait for oppurtunity to knock, throw open the door, grab it by the throat and drag it inside kicking and screaming. Magically yours |
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phase27 Loyal user Tx 228 Posts |
Im not sure where I have heard this before (maybe here at the Café in another forum) but it has helped me out a lot since then. If I ever lose a break and lose the card, I just say something like "You know what, I forgot to have you sign the card, choose another one real fast". I just act casual and no one can ever tell that I messed up.
"Life is only as good as the memories we make..." -K.Roe
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Simon Bakker Special user the Netherlands 587 Posts |
Let the spectator name their card, look through the deck for the card, cull it and palm it.
State that the spec couldn't had selected that card, hand the deck and have him/her look for the card, obvisiously they won't find it. Then you can produce it out of your pocket or whatever. |
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weapon Inner circle I am Emran. I have, 1328 Posts |
"messing up" should not be in your magicians vocabulary!
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r1z08 Inner circle 1158 Posts |
One thing that I like to do when doing free-choice card routine is to keep a double-blank card in the card box that says on one side "Your card is the 7 of Hearts" and on the other side it says "That would have been pretty good, huh?". When I start a free-choice routine, I pull all of the cards out of the box leaving the "prediction" card and just keep the box on the table. If, for whatever reasons, I mess up a false shuffle or control, I will promptly and confidently put the cards down, pull out the prediction and show it to the spectator. You've got a one in 52 chance of hitting their card and when it hits, they are blown away. When it does not, I hand them the card to read it and then tell them to turn it over. It usually gets a good laugh.
If all else fails, I usually pull out a can of mace and spray them and run off into the night laughing maniacally. :0 |
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Decomposed Eternal Order High Desert 12059 Posts |
Glad I found this thread. I perform mostly mentalism. Saturday night I was doing a CT and holding a woman's hands. Her false finger nail came off in my hand! I didn't want to embarass her so I ditched it on the floor. Room was dark for Halloween.
Today on stage, I choose a married couple for a Name/Place mentalism effect. The spectators are required to write onto a billet. I chose a couple where the man turned out to be blind. Amazingly it still worked but I couldn't play off the reactions for the man and neither could others.
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The_Shadow New user 50 Posts |
The chances are that at least once every now and again you will make a slight hiccup and accidentally make a mistake. There is only one thing to do in this situation. DO NOT SHOW ANY SIGNS THAT YOU INFACT MADE A MISTAKE. Merging that current trick into another one in order to locate the card that you lost or whatever is the best way to go about it. The invisible deck is a perfect back up effect as well.
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