Camouflage is a DVD covering Jay Sankey's ideas utilising a gimmick which has been experimented with before. The concept has been around for quite a while, but has so much potential and is ridiculously deceptive. Jay's ideas with this concept are great and you can take them (and the supplied material) to construct your own routines using the "camouflage" principle.
Inside the DVD, you receive two sheets of the material needed to construct the gimmicks. Great quality for what it is and is enough to make around 6-10 gimmicks.
You get a few ideas on the DVD. They were:
Aperture - this was a really visual pencil through deck effect. It requires one simple gimmick (made by you) that is added to the deck. The visual is great, however people cannot be behind you and have to be more or less, directly in front of you. You get two handlings for it on the DVD. The one shown on the trailer is the really angly one, however both will work.
51GONE - put the cards back into the box, reach in, grab the selected card and make the rest of the cards vanish. The gimmick was simple, yet I found it fiddly to get everything in place, which you don't want during a performance. However, with due practice, you should have it working smoothly. Weakest trick on the DVD, and it was still pretty okay.
Collapsible - two halves of a pack fuse into one solid deck of cards. This was great! I built the gaff and I am loving it. You can have it in your pocket or in your case ready to go, at a moments notice. The deck is completely examinable and the whole process is super clean. Love it.
The DVD was well produced, but the teaching from Jay could have been a little more in depth. It felt more like a lecture than a DVD, because he didn't go over construction from scratch, he just showed the gaffs and explained how he made them. The gimmicks however are simple to make and you can still figure out to construction from watching. The handling for each effect was taught well too.
This project highlighted a few uses of a concept which you can now take and build into your own routines and effects. If you like what you saw in the demo and don't mind a few minutes constructing a few gaffs, then this is for you! $30 is a tad pricey, but if you count the potential of the concept and the fun you will get out of experimenting with it, you shouldn't mind. 8.5/10
Product information:
http://www.murphysmagic.com/Product.aspx?id=54906
Inside the DVD, you receive two sheets of the material needed to construct the gimmicks. Great quality for what it is and is enough to make around 6-10 gimmicks.
You get a few ideas on the DVD. They were:
Aperture - this was a really visual pencil through deck effect. It requires one simple gimmick (made by you) that is added to the deck. The visual is great, however people cannot be behind you and have to be more or less, directly in front of you. You get two handlings for it on the DVD. The one shown on the trailer is the really angly one, however both will work.
51GONE - put the cards back into the box, reach in, grab the selected card and make the rest of the cards vanish. The gimmick was simple, yet I found it fiddly to get everything in place, which you don't want during a performance. However, with due practice, you should have it working smoothly. Weakest trick on the DVD, and it was still pretty okay.
Collapsible - two halves of a pack fuse into one solid deck of cards. This was great! I built the gaff and I am loving it. You can have it in your pocket or in your case ready to go, at a moments notice. The deck is completely examinable and the whole process is super clean. Love it.
The DVD was well produced, but the teaching from Jay could have been a little more in depth. It felt more like a lecture than a DVD, because he didn't go over construction from scratch, he just showed the gaffs and explained how he made them. The gimmicks however are simple to make and you can still figure out to construction from watching. The handling for each effect was taught well too.
This project highlighted a few uses of a concept which you can now take and build into your own routines and effects. If you like what you saw in the demo and don't mind a few minutes constructing a few gaffs, then this is for you! $30 is a tad pricey, but if you count the potential of the concept and the fun you will get out of experimenting with it, you shouldn't mind. 8.5/10
Product information:
http://www.murphysmagic.com/Product.aspx?id=54906