My video, Criticizm needed

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My video, Criticizm needed

Postby sithmagician » Sep 19th, '08, 00:06



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz29uolb0Tg


Please tell me what needs work and what is good...
This is obviously just a few effects and I have many more videos to make but i was just wondering.
Cheers

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Postby Tenko » Sep 19th, '08, 01:37

Sith,

My main comment is that you cover too much with your hands. Things should be much more open.

The quality of the video is very poor at times and you keep turning it off, work at doing it all in one play.

The DL is appaling and needs a lot of work, as those who do the Leeds meet will confirm, I hate a poor DL.

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Postby Jean » Sep 19th, '08, 01:49

All individually very good effects and since this is a youtube video its best to just do a stream of different tricks but when performing in public your going to have to work on stringing them together coherently.
i would just like to say again that every slight and effect made in your video where excellent, so if you asking what was good it was all good. But i assume that your asking for constructive criticism so I'm just telling you of the very few tiny flaws that need ironing out.
i think the first coin vanish looked cleaner than the second although the coin production in the second was great, you should try to combine the two.
whenever you did a sleight such as a palming of either card or coin the movement was a little different than the previous one (see at 1.00 to 1.05 and at 1.27 to 1.34 on the youtube video) also you need to work on your DL a bit.

a point about the youtube video itself the picture for the credit card trick was fuzzy and should be cleaned up and the song was brilliant.

anyway i hope that was helpful i always feel like cringing when giving advice because i feel so patronizing and i hope i didn't come off like that

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Postby sithmagician » Sep 19th, '08, 04:26

thank you both for your criticism..
I have been away from magic for 4 months because I have been off with the military.
But again thank you.
and the thing with the credit cards, the reason they are blury is because one of them is My Military Identification card and the other is My personal Identification card.. Just to be safe I blurred that scene..
But again thank you..
and I do agree, my DL's need work.
although when I am performing in public I can perform them much better with misdirection and some pattering..
Thank you again

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