I want to know what are your thoughts about silence reaction's how can you difference a silent reaction from not a reaction.
A Silent Reaction vs. No Reaction
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Reactions aren't all important. True spectator reations happen in their minds, just becouse a person isn't reacting physicaly or verbaly doesn't mean your performance isn't greatly effecting them. The first time I saw a close up performer I didn't say a word and tried to play things cool but it was that performance that inspired me to learn magic, It changed my life and I didn't even thank the guy.
I think with a silent reaction, you can tell the way they react by the look on their face. They'll look shocked, or maybe their hands would raise to their face, covering their nose. A silent reaction really brings out the WOW factor on their face showing how they feel. Sometimes it's better than a loud reaction.
Now if you get no reaction, it may be because they didn't understand the trick because it was too complicated by picking 2 cards or whatever and they couldn't remember their card. You'll notice a difference by them just having a blank look on their face because they think something else is going to happen, maybe they'll stare at the deck in you hands still when your done with the finale of the trick. This causes an awkward moment and it's embarrassing.
To avoid those no reactions, keep the trick simple.
1. Have the spec take 1 card and *remember it.
2. Build up your showmanship/presentation. Make sure you tell them what's going to happen if the trick involves that. ex. ambitious card routine(your card will come to the top)
3. Make sure the spec understands every move your doing, ex. double undercut, shuffling, cutting, looking for certain cards out of the deck.
4. At the finale, explain everything that happened before the reveal. ex. you placed card back, shuffled, cut, "impossible for me to know where your card is."
I hope I helped you out.
-DannyT
Now if you get no reaction, it may be because they didn't understand the trick because it was too complicated by picking 2 cards or whatever and they couldn't remember their card. You'll notice a difference by them just having a blank look on their face because they think something else is going to happen, maybe they'll stare at the deck in you hands still when your done with the finale of the trick. This causes an awkward moment and it's embarrassing.
To avoid those no reactions, keep the trick simple.
1. Have the spec take 1 card and *remember it.
2. Build up your showmanship/presentation. Make sure you tell them what's going to happen if the trick involves that. ex. ambitious card routine(your card will come to the top)
3. Make sure the spec understands every move your doing, ex. double undercut, shuffling, cutting, looking for certain cards out of the deck.
4. At the finale, explain everything that happened before the reveal. ex. you placed card back, shuffled, cut, "impossible for me to know where your card is."
I hope I helped you out.
-DannyT
If nobody is laughing, clapping or doing some 'oh' sounds, then I would say you should put some more time in your performance. As a general rule, imitating David Blaine for example, in real life situations, isn't what I call a performance. The difference between a magician and a trickster is that a magician makes a great performance by who he is and a trickster thinks that the effects, and doing the same performance as everybody else makes a good performance. Just compare some the great magicians to some youtube kids (they're boring as hell and all repeat the same 'watch' over and over again).
But how you know if it's a silent reaction or no reaction at all. If you're so poor at seeing what people are thinking maybe you should hang out more with some friends.
But how you know if it's a silent reaction or no reaction at all. If you're so poor at seeing what people are thinking maybe you should hang out more with some friends.
To me...getting silence and a look of shear astonishment is so much more thrilling than a scream or any other reaction. After a trick when someone looks at you with the face full of astonishment and asks how did you do that, they are showing you something. They have had time to think, and that was the way they chose to react.
When someone is dead silent, it shows that they have no idea what just happened. They are completely stunned and their mind is racing, they have no way to react but to just sit there.
In essence, silence shows that you have struck home, that you have created real magic for the spectator.
Just a Thought.
-Brad
When someone is dead silent, it shows that they have no idea what just happened. They are completely stunned and their mind is racing, they have no way to react but to just sit there.
In essence, silence shows that you have struck home, that you have created real magic for the spectator.
Just a Thought.
-Brad
Also if they are shocked they might sit there with a blank expression and just try to recap it in thier head. If they are bored they will just move right on to the next form of entertainment.
I tend to like big reactions more than silent reactions with a blank face, but only for one reason:
When a person explodes with excitement after seeing an effect, you know they loved it. When someone simply stares at your hands silently, and with a blank face, they could be thinking one of two things:
1. "That sucked, i'm waiting on you to impress me."
2. "That was the most amazing thing i've ever seen in my life, give me a second to come back to reality."
But I do think a silent reaction is the best kind of reaction if you know that they liked it.
Anthony Bass
When a person explodes with excitement after seeing an effect, you know they loved it. When someone simply stares at your hands silently, and with a blank face, they could be thinking one of two things:
1. "That sucked, i'm waiting on you to impress me."
2. "That was the most amazing thing i've ever seen in my life, give me a second to come back to reality."
But I do think a silent reaction is the best kind of reaction if you know that they liked it.
Anthony Bass
I think that when someone yells Holy [put whatever explicit you want in here] how did you do that? Is more exiting to hear then [Crickets] Because you don't want to really have to look at there faces. But i like the verbal response to a trick.