Did Liu Qian's Spring Festival Evening program break the magic commandment?

You shouldn't tell the magical effect of the upcoming performance before the official performance.

This has misled many friends, because it is not the absolute golden rule. This law is relatively applicable to most magic routines, but not all magic routines, especially those with multiple single effects, because the strength of such routines lies in the repetition of the same effect.

Let's talk about the benefits of this rule first:

As the western proverb says, hands are faster than eyes. This is wrong. The eyes of the audience are always faster than the hands of magicians, but the eyes of the audience don't know where to look. If you tell the effect of magic in advance, then the audience will know where to look. In the eyes of the audience, many technologies cannot be used at will.

In addition, if you don't talk about the effect in advance, don't worry if you miss it, because the audience doesn't understand what you are doing. They may be confused, but it's better than knowing that you missed it.

He is well prepared. He is sure that he will not be seen through.

Finally, if you tell the audience the effect before the performance, you will probably lose the mystery because the audience already knows what will happen soon. When the effect really happens, there is naturally a surprise missing.

Because everyone couldn't believe the effect he said, he was very surprised when he performed successfully.

So under what circumstances should we talk about magic effects first?

Establish:

Guide the audience's thinking

Telling about the upcoming effect will help the audience to clarify their understanding of the whole routine. In other words, make the effect clear and make sure that the audience absolutely understands what is happening.

It is necessary to strengthen the suspense of magic routines.

Suspense is an extremely important part of magic performance, that is to say, it makes every audience feel nervous and look forward to the upcoming effect, so that when the final effect appears, the audience's emotions can erupt.

Hitchcock thought:

Surprise = hiding information

Suspense = giving information

To create emotional suspense, we must give the audience enough knowledge and information. Of course, too much or too long tension will make the suspense disappear before the final climax.