Close Up Versus Stage Magic

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Doug, on behalf of ExpertVillage.com. This is a continuation of an introduction to sleight of hand. Now you have two different, well you have many different genres of magic. One being close up, one being stage. Stage is what you're going to be seeing most likely on television. It's the David Copperfields, it's what you're seeing in Vegas. It's something you're going to be cutting a woman in half, making something large appear. Then you have close up magic. That's dealing a lot stronger with sleight of hand, because you're that much closer to your audience. Again, that much more heavier rewards because they're that much closer to be fooled. On stage, people are counting on big movements, flashy lights. Smoke and mirrors so to speak. But again, the sleight of hand in close up magic is much more telling because it's that much closer, and that much more important to get it right, basically. So close up magic entails with an array of different objects, something that you can manipulate with your hands, again is the most important. It's a lot of smaller audiences, so you don't hear about close up magic as much as stage magic, because you don't have an audience of a hundred, two hundred, a thousand at a time. So that's the difference between a couple different genres of magic, close up magic and stage magic."