Price$24.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedSep 27, 2007
Declassified Volume 1
(Based on 1 review)
View ClipThe Declassified series is designed for the beginner who wants to take their magic to the next level. The effects you will learn are easy and visual routines that are essential for performing powerful close up magic.
The Declassified DVD on everyday objects is a collection of routines that will give your audience this impression that you can perform magic anywhere. In this collection of magic with everyday objects you will learn magic with Rings, Rubber Bands, Books, Straws, and many more items found in normal surroundings. The best thing about this DVD is that there are no coin or card tricks on the entire DVD.
Contents:
Book Test - While the performers head is turned a spectator selects any page from an unprepared and borrowed book and remembers a word. Without looking at the page the performer can instantly reveal the thought of the word. You can literally walk up to someone ask to borrow their book and perform this miracle in seconds.
Bottle Cap Matrix - One of the easiest ways to perform this classic close-up effect.
Jumping Ring - A great quickie to perform in between routines that is very easy to do.
Cigarette Sleights - 3 Cigarette sleights that will make you look like a sleight of hand pro. Don't smoke? No problem these are great for performing with straws, crayons, and many other borrowed objects too.
Cut and Restored Straw - Perfect for restaurant workers, cafeterias, or any place you can find a straw.
Torn and Restored Sugar Packet - A borrowed sugar packet is destroyed and is instantly and visually restored back to its original conditions. This effect is something your audiences will remember for the rest of their lives.
Penetrating Rubber Bands - One of the best close-up illusions that you will carry with you and perform anywhere. This something you will do for the rest of you life.
Torn and Restored Rubber Bands - A perfect follow up to the Penetrating Rubber Bands.
Ring and Rubber Band - A shocking illusion that uses 1 ring, 1 rubber band and nothing else.
Running Time Approximately 38min
Reviews
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I really don't believe I'm seeing this. It's at times like this that I had Max Maven's knowledge of the history of effects and methods. There is absolutely nothing creative, unique or inspiring on this DVD. It's all stuff I learned and performed when I was a teenager... Crazy Man's Handcuffs, Ring on String, Sucker Torn and Restored Napkin, etc. Hell, some of this was likely found in my grade school library.
Let me back up a second. Even though there's nothing in the title to suggest this is for beginners, the box and product description clearly state that the series is for “the beginner who wants to take their magic to the next level.” At least that explains the material.
But the “next level” of what? Mediocrity? Boredom?
Yeah, I'm being harsh. The routines on this DVD have probably been in the repertoire of every close-up magician that's lasted longer than five years in the art.
Here's the rub. I suppose it's possible that the material is so basic that it's all in the public domain. But somehow I doubt it.
Beginners will probably buy this. They might be able to learn the material. The teaching is terse and without detail. Even if they do manage to learn a few of the routines, they'll be missing possibly the most important lesson of all: where all of this wonderful knowledge came from. Without that knowledge their appreciation of the art will be shallow and their invovlement short-lived.
Let me back up a second. Even though there's nothing in the title to suggest this is for beginners, the box and product description clearly state that the series is for “the beginner who wants to take their magic to the next level.” At least that explains the material.
But the “next level” of what? Mediocrity? Boredom?
Yeah, I'm being harsh. The routines on this DVD have probably been in the repertoire of every close-up magician that's lasted longer than five years in the art.
Here's the rub. I suppose it's possible that the material is so basic that it's all in the public domain. But somehow I doubt it.
Beginners will probably buy this. They might be able to learn the material. The teaching is terse and without detail. Even if they do manage to learn a few of the routines, they'll be missing possibly the most important lesson of all: where all of this wonderful knowledge came from. Without that knowledge their appreciation of the art will be shallow and their invovlement short-lived.