To build the box here is what you’ll need: a box, adhesive tape or glue, fishing thread or normal sawing
thread and scissors.
Pre-show:
If you don’t use the micro SD card, add the mention
“bring a laptop!” on the show poster so you’ll be able
to use anyone’s laptop to read the movie. It will also
build pre-show suspense and will attest that it’s not a
tricked computer.
Just before the show force a spectator to chose the instrument using your favorite method. I use blank cards
with a name of an instrument written on each of them
and force it with the old hindu shuffle (as Max Maven
does). The spectator puts it back in the deck and briefly
shuffles the card as I ask him to think of the instrument
and really get the picture of it in his head. Later on we’ll
pretend he thought of it.
2 solutions to build the 16 choices index
You can choose if you want to glue it or just use normal
tape, but it depends on the box you use. If the tape is
really sticky you can use it, otherwise glue it.
1) Glue (or tape) the end of a little piece of sawing
thread (or a piece of fishing line) on the bottom of the
box and the other end on the SD card. I personally like
to use fishing line with a glass box but only for stage
Here are two examples with tape:
1)
You can have an index set up on stage and in
your jacket: you set for example 4 SD cards behind the
chair, 2 in your right pocket, 2 in your left pocket, 2 in
your back pocket and so on and as you put a prop back
in your pocket, you finger palm the right SD card. You
can gather them by location or alphabet to find them
easily.
2)
You can use George Parker and Lawrence Hass’
“Indexterity”. An amazing way to have a packed index
in your jacket (or somewhere else if needed) and no
need to go to the pocket to find the right card. It’s
smart, cheap and he teaches you to build your own
with cardboard and staples. I highly recommend this
method.
The Switch
You can use any switch but I like to use the one which
consists of having an object in a box that you can
openly display but that is attached loosely to the bottom (with sawinga thread for example). So when you
flip the box, the objects stays where it is, hanging form
the thread and you can display the switched object
that was in your finger palm. The beauty of this is that
you can ask a spectator to keep the box with him in
the audience the whole time. He can open it to see the
object and he can shake it when it’s still closed.
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