Haha, Rev. That's funny.
Ok, some comments:
-Film it for real people. There were so many off things about that, chief amongst which were you covering the deck with one hand at the start, and the presentation with the die - is that a presentation? Is that a genuine choice? I'm not asking for how it's done, mind you, I don't particularly care - the point is that because of how it was set up, the presentation is CONFUSING, which leads me to my next point...
-Confusion is not magic. I was so distracted by those things, and really confused - I wasn't sure what was meant to be happening, if that was genuine, if it was a premise, etc., that I stopped focussing on the magic and started thinking about what the heck I was meant to be seeing. In order words, the magic is lost on me. Film it on real people, and this might change.
-There's really no tension here. You write down a prediction, they stop somewhere, turn the card over, and turn the prediction over. No drama, nothing. Yay, it matches. Why do I care? Why do I, as a spectator, care that they matched? Short answer is, I don't have a reason to care, because there's no real presentation. You're just dictating what you're doing. Occasionally, this is helpful. Usually, it is not.
-Give me a reason to care. I don't necessarily mean, give the effect some deep story about the meaning of life. Meaning can be a lot of things. I want to feel something, I want to care, that's meaning, however you do it. If you present it as a light moment of deception, so be it - even presenting a trick as a trick gives it meaning, at least you're presenting it as something. See, for example, the better versions of Paul Curry's Open Prediction.
