I think the title is a clue to the answer of your question.
"Magic and Fun with Mark Lewis"
I love the video. Hearing the kids scream and laugh, yet remaining in his control. Excellent stuff.
Did you have a point?
Mark.Lewis wrote:Tim Ellis wrote:We just saw Shawn on Ellen her in Australia last night.
I thought he did a great job. Well routined and a great selection of effects.
Yes, he was fast, but that's TV.
When Sue-Anne did a spot a few months ago on a live show with the regular magician from the program, the 5 minute segment was pushed back repeatedly and suddenly became a two and a half minute segment a few moments before they went on.
The producers expected (and got) every single effect in half the time.
I do enjoy slower, more deliberate magic pieces, but to capture and hold the interest of non-magic fans on TV you do often have to work at a somewhat breakneck speed.
Dearie me. Young Timothy has a lot to learn. Television is the LAST place you should operate at breakneck speed.
Ryan Matney wrote:I'm not sure the torn and restored effect works the way you are thinking.
Dustin Stinett wrote:I used to riffle the pack with my thumb like crazy. Barry Price use to admonish me on it all the time (he called it "finger fibrillation"), but it took seeing myself on video to break me of this annoying habit.
There are a lot of folks who do it.
Signed and "mis-made"? (And quite openly signed, not cozy at all?) Wowsers...I'm glad it's still on my DVR.......
Mark.Lewis wrote: The word "scripting " reminds me of the acting profession.
Mark.Lewis wrote:Magic should come from the heart and you don't show heart when you are operating from a formal script
And I have never seen a single magician in my life who is any good that has taken acting lessons. They are always over loud and artificial.
John Lovick wrote:And I have never seen a single magician in my life who is any good that has taken acting lessons. They are always over loud and artificial.
Too bad youve never seen Andy Nyman or Jonathan Levit or Tommy Wonder or Richard Kaufman or Derek DelGaudio or Aaron Fisher or Steve Valentine or Rob Zabrecky or Bob Fitch or David Regal or John Carney. All good magicians who have taken acting lessons or formal training in acting. And those are just the ones I know about. I'm sure there are hundreds more.
Mark.Lewis wrote:How awful. A magic performance is not a television script.
Mark.Lewis wrote:Magic should come from the heart and you don't show heart when you are operating from a formal script that you can't deviate from. You should certainly prepare your patter and how you deliver it but you should remain human and not a robot.
Pete McCabe wrote:I will gladly send you a copy of Scripting Magic with my compliments.
Jager wrote:Pete McCabe wrote:I will gladly send you a copy of Scripting Magic with my compliments.
Hey... I paid $36.00 for my copy. And It is worth Ten times that.
Mark.Lewis wrote:How awful. A magic performance is not a television script. You have to have the human element. And using a written script that you learn off by heart makes me shudder. It is actually the wrong way to go about things. And I don't care what the standard wisdom on this is. That is not to say you can't say the same thing every time you work. You do have to plan your patter. But there are better ways of doing it than learning it off by heart the way an actor does.
Magic should come from the heart and you don't show heart when you are operating from a formal script that you can't deviate from. You should certainly prepare your patter and how you deliver it but you should remain human and not a robot.
This way is not perfect but I would rather be human than perfect.
Richard Kaufman wrote:
As far as your comment: "Only Magicians will try and tear down his performance and nit pick this that and the other"--it's just a load of crap. Singers critique other singers, actors critique other actors, painters critique other painters, and in all of these cases they see things that most laymen don't see. It's not a case of "tearing down" anyone. That's a foolish statement and the refuge of anyone who thinks there should be no genuine criticism.
Mark.Lewis wrote: which kind of proves my point.
"Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances." Sanford Meisner