thecooltonto wrote:
Watch the video extremely carefully and really scrutinize every detail and you can find the method he used. Interestingly enough, the method is actually shown a couple of times way off in the background, but its nothing to do with what is making him do it, its just the same thing. I don't want to expose anything, but just watch the video carefully as in the background and the path that he follows and the areas actually shown, and you should figure out how he did it. And it was a camera trick. The camera controlled the viewing angles. The main angle issues were above him and behind or either to the side of the cameras depending on the shots.
Also yeah he uses stooges a lot, and some of his tricks are camera tricks because they are way too angle sensitive to be done without a camera. However, I have to say I wonder if he is not replicating illusions with a camera trick for tv sometimes, but I really think he just uses camera trickery to be using it. Blaine I think did it to protect a secret kind of, but I don't think thats what angel is doing.
And a building to building levitation would be extremely difficult to do without camera trickery or without controlled stage lighting because wire needs to be so much stronger if you are not using it the way it is normally used. I don't want to expose methods, so its kind of hard to explain. Not to mention you would need the proper buildings, and the proper place because you could get in trouble doing something like that in a city in most areas of course. And the biggest thing is safety probably, cause u don't want to die lol.
But of course magicians like Angel and Copperfield do flying/levitating illusions on a major scale in their stage shows, but that is very different than doing a building to building levitation without being able to control your surroundings or have anything over you.
Fallingblood, I agree Angel is probably not a good director, but I think they cut the building to building levitation into many shots intentionally to make it harder to figure it out, because first you have to kind of see whats going on despite the continuous shot changing. That really made the building to building levitation look better I think on tv than if he had shown it in one shot. It would be a little more obvious how it was done then.
So thats my opinion about that stuff.
Alright you saying that you don't want to expose anything and then you say that it was all camera tricks so then what is there to expose? Its a matter of him getting from point A to point B with out "us" seeing. Its called TV, this has no impact on us in my opinion.
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However I am just reading post after post of I know how he did it and it was camera tricks or I know how he did it and it was wires. I will tell you all what. We can solve this stupid arguement of overbearing envious ego's!!!(Thats right you are in envy of someone who has finally made it in our art and put magic back on the map and now all you can do is rip the guy) Listen isnt our craft about reactions? If so, does he get the reactions from the lay people AT HOME that is needed to keep his show on TV? I would think so, and he has done a great job doing that. Then you have all this he is crap he is a hack then no I didnt say that and blah blah blah blah blah! Well most of you are saying that he is a hack. But lets face it no one at home wants to watch Siegfred and Roy once a week on a stage doing tiger tricks using some gimmick that is hidden off stage. edited about 7 years ago I saw S and R in Vegas and could see the boom lift making him levitate. Does that mean because they use a freakin crane that they are hacks. Using a stooge has gone back many many years and everyone who has ever seen a live show has seen or heard a stooge. Give me a freaking break. It is made for the people at home watching, the Lay people. When you have one pro telling another pro that he sucks or he cant do that then personally I hear someone saying that they suck themselves but look at this piece of crap he sucks even more, please look the other way. SOOOOO here is the argurment solver!!! Tell us the camera trick used tell us what he did excatly what it was he did, the method of camera trickery he used. IF all you can say is I know the method he used and it was a camera trick then all you are really saying is that you have no freakin clue what you are talking about. The old saying goes back up what you say with facts or you are just talking out your backside. So lets hear it. And one more thing dont be jealous of someone who has finally put magic back onto the map and made it a cool thing again. Remember 10 years ago we were the nerds and dorks doing magic (dont lie you know we were) and now look! People are actually interested when you go up to them and say can I show you something, when 10 years ago you may have been shot for asking that. 
