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toward her. She took a card and held it as
if to prevent him from seeing it. He told
her to show it to her friends. Then he
turned his back on the audience and
covered his eyes with his hands as if
suggesting that he would not peek. While his
back was turned the lady displayed the
card to everyone. He asked if everyone
had seen it and suggested she conceal the
card again. Then he turned around. Now as
he faced the audience he held a large jumbo
card face against his chest. There was a
smile on his face like the smile on a cat's
face that ate a canary. The effect on the
audience was stunning. They reacted quite
strongly. Eventually he revealed that the
jumbo card was the card that was selected.
Matrix is a good example of letting a
spectator know what will happen and then
doing it. In this trick the audience sees a
coin magically jump from under one card
to under another card. Essentially this
informs the audience what is going to
happen. I believe the audience suspects
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the first coin to travel was flicked over to
the other card or suspects some other
crude device was employed. The exact
same moves are used to cause two other
coins to magically travel from one card to
the other. They know what is going to
happen. They watch carefully. The result is
always greeted with surprise and a stunned
reaction on their face.
A conclusion to all of this is that surprise
and shock depends upon providing some
way to let the audience know what
happened. The audience may know what is
going to happen or they may not know.
However, the audience must be given some
kind of power to observe what the change
will be or was. Whatever the surprise is
they must have some chance to look back
in their memory and say, "Ya know, I was
watching very carefully and I have no idea
where that snake came from."
Conclusion
What do I expect you to walk away with
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