How to Script and Construct a Magic Show

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Here’s one of the most common questions the magicians at the magic shop get asked:

‘How do I make a magic act,

that flows well and is correctly scripted?’

The magic shop is full of card tricks, coin tricks, big tricks, small tricks. There’s more tricks than any magician could ever hope to perform! Picking awesome tricks is the easy part. The hard part is building them together to create a professional act.

When you order a new trick, it usually comes with an instructional DVD or book, teaching you how to do it, but there’s usually something left out. The real secrets to improving your magic tricks:

How you perform your tricks.
What you say when you perform.
How you act and present yourself.
The way tricks fit together.

This knowledge is why you can watch two different magicians, both performing the same magic trick, and both doing the moves really well, but one will seem much more polished and entertaining than the other. The secret is in the scripting and the performers routine construction.

If you find you lack confidence performing your tricks, or freeze, when it comes to doing your tricks in front of people, you need to study how to present your magic, more than you need new tricks to perform.

The following books are core texts on the subject of making a script for a magic trick and how to improve your performance as a magician. They are required reading for any of the MoM magicians.

Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz

Maximum Entertainment by Ken Weber

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The Approach by Jamie D Grant – Magic Book Rating and and reviews

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By Dominic Reyes

Here's a quick shout out about a new book on showmanship, practice, and the bare bones 'in the trenches' business of turning your magic into a profession.

Jamie D Grant has been there and done that. Jamie's new book: The Approach – A Complete Guide to Becoming a Working Magician is stuffed full of practical advice and tips for working magicians. It's not a normal magic book. No tricks, presentations or routines. Just very short, to the point chapters covering a whole range of practical tips to improve your experience of performing magic tricks to the public.

As with most magic DVD's or books, it's only a matter of finding that one little bit of business that makes the whole book or DVD worth owning. If you already perform to the public, much of this will already be understood, but it's the extra little bits of advice and experience that you may not have discovered that make this a gem for professionals

For beginners, this is a quick shortcut to gain the life experience only gained from years of gigging. If you are still in that limbo point, of planning to do a public magic gig some time in the future, this book may give you a push to take that step.