SD CARD MYSTERY
SD CARD MYSTERY
By Butzi, Magicien
Effect:
The magician asks the audience to think of a country to
go to where he could play a certain instrument. After
they decided, a SD card is removed from a that was held
by a spectator the whole time. Someone checks that
this is the only movie on the SD card… and the short
video it’s shown: it’s the magician in a country the audience chose playing the instrument a spectator thought
of.
Overview explanation:
This is a combination of three methods: a multiple outs
index, a simple card trick force and a switch first developed by Bruno Henning. You prepare several SD cards
on which a video of you playing the same instrument in
different places in the world is copied and hidden them
in different places on stage or in an index. The country is freely selected and the instrument is forced in a
pre-show. So as soon as you will know the country, you
would be able to take the right SD card in your index
and switch it to the one that was in plain view.
2 solutions to get your movie ready:
First solution: if you travelling extensively, you can really do a movie in each country you go to and play the
same instrument every time. You can add a message to
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the camera saying: “Hey there I am travelling again! In
the country you’ve selected! What’s that? You want me
to prove it?” [on the video, enter a typical place/famous
monument there and sing a song with the forced instrument that talks about the country]. If you can’t play
properly it’s even funnier.
Second solution: if you don’t plan to travel that much,
borrow or buy a green screen and film yourself enough
times playing the same instrument with a similar song
as above. Be careful not to wear green! Then place a different country in the background on post-production.
If you don’t know how to do it, find a friend or hire a
freelancer on e-lance (or fivver.com) to do it for you, it
will be cheap and easy.
The SD cards
Because the trick is impressive if people have a wide
range of countries to select (15 at least I would say), you
might want to save money to look for cheap SD cards.
My advice: look for low storage cards in cheap electronic dealers or online (no need to buy a 8Go cards, 1
to 2Go is more than enough!) and convert your movie
in Mp4, it’s a very light format (the free software “handbrake” is good to convert videos). You can buy micro SD
card if you want to play the video on a cellphone in a
close-up situation.
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