by Gary Jones » Feb 3rd, '12, 09:26
Hi,
Just a little history about this DVD..............
Mark Bendell is a great friend of mine and Lee and is the creator of these effects on this DVD, Mark is not a professional magician, he's a very keen hobbyist with a keen eye on what works in a commercial situation. Marks does go out and perform but mainly to friends etc so he asked myself and Lee if we would like to be part of this project.
Bag 4 Life came about on one of our pub sessions, after a few bottles of red Mark said "Look at this, do you think you could get away with it" To me that was like a red rag to a bull, we tweaked it and came up with a few subtleties and convincers and I then 'fired it in action' to a table of students, the reactions were great and they all wanted to grab the bag lol.....Bag 4 Life was born. I know professionals such as Lee Smith, Iain Moran, Rus Andrews, Graham Prigg and Chris Congreave use this all of the time at their gigs. This is probably one of the easiest to do coin effects out there move wise (there aren't any) but it's the psychological aspect of the effect which I love, you're showing them the method but the brain just doesn't see it, the brain is filling in all the wrong gaps, how cool is that!!
We were set a challenge, to prove how easy and yet how commercial these routines were we had to run through each routine and then perform it live, no retakes, just do it. Some of the effects on the DVD are completely self working and most of the others just require basic to intermediate card/coin handling skills, but nothing too difficult. I can guarantee that most magicians will be able to do every effect on this DVD after one viewing, obviously if you like a particular routine then you will have to put the work in to make it yours of course!
The DVD contains card magic, coin magic, magic with a Tic Tac box and mentalism, a few things will have to be made up but you will have what you need lying around and you won't need DIY skills. Also included on the DVD are the Ouija Card templates, so you can print your own off and perform this effect straight away.
If you have any questions please fire away, and if you have any difficult or awkward questions contact Lee lol!
Regards,
Gary Jones.