The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Video Chat Magic

Author/Editor: Houstoun, Will and Thompson, Steve

includes PDFs

Foreword
Introduction and Welcome
About this Book

CHAPTER 1 – FOUNDATIONS
Video Chat Magic: Our Approach
Are You a Prioritisationalist?
The Folly of the Crowd
The Return of the Prioritisationalist

CHAPTER 2 – TRICKS
That’s Not Remotely Possible
The Messy Spread
Jackpot M&Ms (David Britland)
Stop! (David Britland)
Videoport
Audio Deceptions
Tricks: The Breakout Room

CHAPTER 3 – MASKING SOFTWARE
Introducing VideoMasker
Setting Up VideoMasker
The VideoMasker Preview Tool
VideoMasker Prediction Effects and Ideas
VideoMasker Non-Prediction Effects
VideoMasker Effects that Push the Boundaries

INTERMISSION
I Felt Like a Rant

CHAPTER 4 – MENTALISM
Harry’s Switch (Harry De Cruz)
The Zoom Switch
Zoomifying Max Maven’s Four Sided Triangle
Wishing and Make it So…Online
The Cast of the Least Suspected Suspect: A “Whodunnit” for Video Chat Magic (Jim Steinmeyer)
Retail Therapy (Harry Reigel)
The Participative Princess
Mentalism: The Breakout Room

CHAPTER 5 – TIME MANIPULATION
TimeShifter
The Tomate Who Knows
The Sympathetic Coins
Remote Control
Time Manipulation: The Breakout Room

CHAPTER 6 – INTERACTIVE EFFECTS
Interactive Television Tricks
A Toxic Hess
Letting Go of Tricks in Favor of Experiences
Full Spectrum Magic
The Humans Went in Three by Three
Finding your Better Half
The One Great Deceit

CHAPTER 7 – ESSAYS
A Quirky Approach to Magic (Richard Wiseman)
Dealing with Applause, or the Lack Thereof (Siegfried Tieber)
Creating Promo Videos From Your Zoom Shows (Seth Raphael)
A Livestream Pathway (Max Maven)
Discovering Virtual Magic (Adrian Lacroix)
Before the Zoom Rush: Examples of Theatrical Interactions Before Video Chat (Augusto Corrieri)
Siegfried’s Pyramid of Priorities (Siegfried Tieber)

CHAPTER 8 – INTERVIEWS
Larry Fong
Pete McCabe
Scripting Magic 2.1: 22 Questions and One Interview (Pete McCabe & Paul Draper)

Afterword
Authors
Contributors
Effective Giving: The Real Magic