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Hi there. I am thinking of performing this on a stage show and was wondering about visibility. I have tried blowing up the cards image to nearer A4 size, but my wife is still not convinced it is big enough. Could anyone advise as to their success with this 'at a distance'?

How, roughly of course, big is your audience?

One of the problems at the moment is I'm not sure. I'm trying to find out. It is on a school stage but I don't really expect an enormous audience. I am worried about the distance from the stage though.

Jumbo cards should be big enough.

Use the regular version for the spec and have someone cue up a powerpoint slide show that they time to you flipping...that allows the audience to follow along with the screen behind you and have you standing in the foreground for the finish.

Its interesting you say that because I was wondering about doing the whole thing on ppt and somehow incorporating the necessary gimmick into the laptop, or the 'zapper' to control the thing, or something.

I think I've abandoned this for now and am using a visual trick with silks instead!

Use the cue cards as normal...the powerpoint allows you to direct it to the audience but maintain the intimacy with the individual spec....nobody will question the cue cards if you focus all your attention on the spec and "forget the powerpoint exists" keeping the effect about you and the spec. It will come off as the powerpoint being simply for courtesy to the audience.

...and once you've sold that connection, oh what fun you could have...