Bounjour tout le monde,
I was going to be doing an origional lottery prediction. My inspiration to do it, surpisingly enough, did not come from Derren Brown, at least not in the way you would expect. In discussing this with my friend, who is a lay person, he brought up the problem of it being 'derreny'. I have scince decided not to do it, as although the layout and style would be ENTIRLEY different, the mention of lottery seems at best, like 'that guy with the goatee from tv'... that said, the method/ effect is better which may earn me some browny points from the audience's point of view. The only way I think I would ever dream of doing it is overtly mentioning Derren, in which case I think it comes across as snobbery.
I might like to point out that I am not particularly interested in weather or not it is to the taste of magicians, but weather a lay audience would enjoy it and be able to remember it as a distinctive piece of magic.
Bearing that in mind, what predictions could be made??... I can't really do racehorses (too Derreny- not my style), newspapers (I'm sure that's been done before a few times
) football matches (if anyone knew my persona that would be the last thing I would 'expertly study')... and I would rather have something entirley against the odds... finally, it is not 'my' prediction, per se, the spectator's make the prediction themselves which has different presentational advantages.
