How do magicians produce a glass from thin air?
The performing art of Magic has a long history, the art has evolved to a point that for each magical effect to be achieved, there are several possibilities of handling. So when a magician wants to create a new routine or magical act for various reasons, what process does he usually go through before standing on the real stage?
He may have three choices. First, he can go through his personal magic library manually and search for ideas. Second, he can create one himself. Third, he can buy someone else's creation. With the help of the internet and YouTube and stuff, the process becomes easier.
For average magicians, they usually have limited experience on such routine creation, because all they do is to perform whatever they see is interesting to themselves. They might see an advert describing a newly released instructional DVD, check out the preview on YouTube, buy it and pick routines for their own use. However, a better approach is to consider your own performance style, create a routine yourself and add magical effects that add impact to the performance.
After searching for the internet and magic shops, you are going to find a number of tricks that is related to what you require. However, magic tricks and gimmicks usually define what objects are involved in the magical effect it creates. For example, an appearing cane gimmick would only allow you to produce a cane. Therefore, the magician must have the creativity to modify the trick or gimmick in order to fits it well into his routine. Sometimes he might even need to reconsider his own routine to allow the magic effect to be properly added into. So the outcome might be quite different from what he thought, but the magician should work it around to solve the problem.
The somewhat more exacting magician will usually adopt the second method. Here, he will decide to add some type of production or mysterious appearance. Before embarking upon his search, he will determine the object or objects with which he wishes to accomplish the effect. Then, as before, he will make the search. But this investigation is not so general. Specifically, he knows what he wants to cause to appear. His hunt is limited to tricks in which the desired object is used. If he fails in his search, or if the tricks he finds do not seem satisfactory to him, usually he will decide upon a second object to take the place of the first choice. Then he makes the search all over again.
A successful magician always has his own style of performance. Try the above process and create your signature act!
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