Friday, September 18, 2009

Questions and Sources

Alright I'm a little behind with coming up with sources. Stage magic is a great topic just not sure what to be searching for. Other than that, I'm working on my foundation questions.

My Essential Question is " What is the process of starting a stage magic show in Pittsburgh PA?"
If anyone have ideas on how to improve my question, let me know by commenting down below.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Defining my action plan a little more

To Mr. Hamilton;
"Who is going to use this resource? How are they going to use it? What's the point?"

Because of your questions it made my mind turn a bit about my action plan. The people who will use my project will be beginning magicians or even comedians since all you have to do is remove the magic part and put in the comedian parts.

For how they are going to use it, I believe that I make the process into basically a "How-To" video or something like that.

The point of my project is to show how much work magicians (or any other stage acts) must go through in order to look good on stage.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Research

So the research i'll be doing is starting off with history of stage magic, move into learning some really fancy effects, and then go into the drama department so i learn the way of the stage. From all of that i will then research on how to get a stage show then find a place to have my show at.


To Mr.Hamilton;
Basically it is going to be behind the scenes from the beginning of planning out the show to preforming on the stage and all the fun stuff in the middle (boring long hours of practicing and getting stage placement right).

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Creation and Performance - Stage Magic (New topic)

My new and final topic idea is the creation and performance of a new routine for stage magic. Today Ringold leaded me to a few stage magic websites such as 12magic.com and another one. So my project is going to be developing a show showing you the process of creating a stage magic routine and the history of it.

back tracking

Alright so I've discussed with Mr. Ringold about stage magic again, just right now I'm not sure what do to with stage magic. Maybe the process of creating a new effect and preforming it on stage or the process of making a great show. I'm just not sure what to do with magic.