by Jing » Feb 9th, '11, 21:19
I think a live performance is a good thing.
Yes, I like Jay Sankey, but man is that, "oh we'll just say he chose this card thing is annoying" - he could at least get someone to pick a card! (maybe I'll volunteer my self at Blackpool).
On the other end, Greg Wilson's stuff - he shows a few performances, so you can see different reactions, get an idea of handling etc...
maybe this is me, but yes I like books, I like to make up my own presentations, but also if you see someone else's you can tweak it, spark an idea off - and the more you do it, the more it becomes you. I do recapped and at the beginning, it was kinda similar to whats on the dvd 100 goes later, and it's a different effect almost.
Now onto the explanations, the Jay Sankey - I know what I'm talking about and I'm going to tell you is much better than the Greg Wilson, I'll just speed through this as if you don't really care, and then we can quickly get back to some more performances, approach.
Not too bothered about the multi-person explanantions - sometimes the presenters just seem to be making each other laugh, and messing around - on my time!!
Like the idea of a set of pdf notes to print out and read through too - watch the performance and the explanation, then have some notes to learn through properly away from the screen, you can check the dvd again if you are stuck - like that a lot actually.
My desert island dvds, (which should probably be a new thread too)
Jay Sankey - Front Row Sankey - wowza
David Stone - Real Secrets of Magic 1 and 2
These three are essentially my working repetoire.
The list continues from here though...