To start off no hate to the magician, I just happened to be watching his performance when I thought about this.
In the Britain's Got Talent Auditions, a guy called Damien O'Brien did this performance
. To start off, I was actually fooled by some bits, (the card through phone - if it was in fact examinable) and the overall trick was nice to watch (though probably not good enough to win compared to previous magicians - this is my own opinion). But the last two effects is what I want to talk about.
On the metal he predicts the number 71059 which is the result of some calculations made on his OWN phone. (I'm sure I don't need to elaborate)
He then proceeds to say that the number is also Simon's birthday - 07/10/59 (in the British way of dates).
In my opinion these two effects contradict each other, it turns from a how did he predict that? To, how did he force that? (or to laymen, how did he manipulate them to choose that number). So therefore the first effect is slightly invalid.
It was still a smart performance with using David's credit card so no-one can check the math, but I wanna hear your guys opinions. In your experience, would you perform a trick where you change the effect? Or do you base it off initial reactions and the feeling, rather than how fooling it is.
(I tried to explain my question as well as I can but honestly I'm just curious as to what you guys think and any sort of answer would be good.)![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
In the Britain's Got Talent Auditions, a guy called Damien O'Brien did this performance
On the metal he predicts the number 71059 which is the result of some calculations made on his OWN phone. (I'm sure I don't need to elaborate)
He then proceeds to say that the number is also Simon's birthday - 07/10/59 (in the British way of dates).
In my opinion these two effects contradict each other, it turns from a how did he predict that? To, how did he force that? (or to laymen, how did he manipulate them to choose that number). So therefore the first effect is slightly invalid.
It was still a smart performance with using David's credit card so no-one can check the math, but I wanna hear your guys opinions. In your experience, would you perform a trick where you change the effect? Or do you base it off initial reactions and the feeling, rather than how fooling it is.
(I tried to explain my question as well as I can but honestly I'm just curious as to what you guys think and any sort of answer would be good.)