An excellent point you've went out of your way to illustrate: how even using the insipid Windows Movie Maker is an obvious possibility. The only other is the pen is cleverly tethered and embeds under his shirt while "covered".
How is this trick realized?
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There are some tricks that are so angle sensitive you can only perform them for one person. If that one person is a camera eye, all the better... you can do 12 takes and if you only pull it off in one of them, that's the one you upload.
One such move is Marlo's "Miracle Change" ... like the name implies, if you see in person you swear you've witnessed a miracle. It looks soooooo impossible. But the trade off is that you'll never be performing that trick while surrounded.
A friend of mine has a collection of magic DVDs and I've watched one with him on the subject of "short sleeve vanishes." Notice how much more impressive it is to vanish something with short sleeves. If he did this same trick with long sleeves, nobody would give it a second thought.
One such move is Marlo's "Miracle Change" ... like the name implies, if you see in person you swear you've witnessed a miracle. It looks soooooo impossible. But the trade off is that you'll never be performing that trick while surrounded.
A friend of mine has a collection of magic DVDs and I've watched one with him on the subject of "short sleeve vanishes." Notice how much more impressive it is to vanish something with short sleeves. If he did this same trick with long sleeves, nobody would give it a second thought.
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Actually, I'm pretty impressed...
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Thanks!. Had I kept my right thumb quiet during the crucial part of the "trick", it would've been far better, I think.
Can you edit sound? The drop is audible.
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Patricio Elicer
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Yeah, good catch. I can turn down the whole volume a bit, and also mask it with incidental music, but I don't think I can edit the drop sound out altogether.
Patricio Elicer
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Thanks Teek, wow!
It was just an ordinary rug. I'm obviously a rookie of rookies on this magic business.
Ah, that explains it. You might need a few cushions or pillows though, a ball is going to roll and you need a little soft valley for it to roll into.
Happy dropping!
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I agree. Even in the bottle-2 video there is an audible clink at the end and you can hear the bottle roll off of whatever he is dropping it onto.
He is vanishing the bottle, phone, etc. but he is using software to do it.
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The curtain has been pulled back Oz style.
The rest is here:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=237723&forum=217&264&start=240#23
The rest is here:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=237723&forum=217&264&start=240#23
Well darn it. I just figured out a method to do it live; it's angleproof, impromptu, simple, repeatable, and undetectable.
Now that I know it isn't possible, I have to chuck it.
A bit more seriously: Kudos to Az and whoever else pegged editing. I didn't.
What, no six impossible things before breakfast?
What a swizz.
ETA: the guy has been pretty squirmy, he denies it right up until someone finds a youtube comment of his on another video which basically outs him as a video editor. Only then does he confess. I suspect if that comment hadn't been found, he'd have continued to deny it. I feel slightly gratified that my hunch about him playing semantics games with the cut/edit claims was correct, though.
What a swizz.
ETA: the guy has been pretty squirmy, he denies it right up until someone finds a youtube comment of his on another video which basically outs him as a video editor. Only then does he confess. I suspect if that comment hadn't been found, he'd have continued to deny it. I feel slightly gratified that my hunch about him playing semantics games with the cut/edit claims was correct, though.
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So did I, but I think it needs to be reshot possibly because there's something slightly off that makes it a little more obvious than it could be. Id say more, but dont want to run afoul of the mods.
Ooh, please PM me with your comments! We're very unlikely to reshoot it (it was a nightmare to get that take) but you never know. Plus, I'm trying to organise something for the summer which, if I manage to persuade Richard, will be awesome, and feedback would be useful for that. So, any comments are greatly appreciated, via PM.
That's a great thread over there...all 10 pages.
Loved the "Dove" vid on retouching and photo enhancing.
Yes, it is a great thread although I don't like that forum generally.
There was a thread here about the Dove video some time ago. I dislike it because it's a giant strawman. Dove make their own video of a model being retouched then claim "oh, this is what our rivals do, isn't that bad?". Retouching does occur, but not necessarily to the extent that Dove shows in that vid. They've set up a worse case scenario just to knock it down in order to...sell more of their product than the rival!!
Anyway, that's a major derail so I'll shut up now
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