Hello everyone,
I've spent the last few weeks polishing this Hanging Coins-esque effect, and like where it is at.
If anyone could drop a few words about subtleties or things I could improve upon, I would greatly appreciate it.
Cheers,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gr4hWYrofs
I gave it a good look. I have a few pointers.
You won't fool a coin man, but your handiwork is good enough for most lay audiences, no problem. I saw nothing too obvious, but you need better "attention control."
You still need to R-E-L-A-X! You do improve when you're doing the coin work itself, but your speech patterns are terrible in the first half of the video - speaking too swiftly, adding tongue clicks to what's being said, etc. A higher sound level on the recording would help as well. Make your delivery smoother, and it will become more captivating to the spectators. You want them captivated, because that allows you to control their attention - they look where you want them to look, plain and simple, and not at what you're trying to hide from them.
The patter delivery, as I stated, improves towards the end. But the patter itself might need a bit of work. Explaining the term "CGI," expecting the typical lay person to know what a "pixel" is, etc. - too much. (BTW, "pixel" only applies to 2-dimensional images. In the 3-D world, the smallest image element is a "voxel" - a portmanteau of "pixel" and "volume.")
Reconsider your patter by applying a simple concept - pretend you're performing your trick in 1970, when computers were strange, alien devices few people had ever seen in person and terms like "CGI" and "pixel" didn't yet exist. NOW how would you present the trick? If you apply this and rewrite your patter's "story," I think you'll find people understand it better and follow you where you wish to lead them more effectively. You'll have more of their attention, meaning it will be easier to control what they look at and when. That lack of control was the reason I started spotting some of your moves - I lost interest in the patter, thus my eyes wandered.
A final tip: get rid of the mirror in the background when recording or record in a different, mirror-free location. I couldn't see one of your vanishes very well because the mirror was acting as a light source behind the subject and your hand was directly in front of it. It's like staring into a light bulb.
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