Price$39.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedMay 01, 2015
Promotion
Kyle Purnell
Mystique Factory
(Based on 1 review)
Promotion is all about heightening the impossibility of the bill change. When you do magic with a perfectly unique (signed) and even borrowed object, it will stick with your audiences for a long time. SIGNATURE STILL ACROSS THE BILL!
Keep in mind:
•The bill can be borrowed and signed! (American Currency or any bill that have similar colors)
•The gimmick does most of the work for you!
•Reuse the same bill after multiple performances!
•Immediately examinable!
•Takes up minimal pocket space
The DVD includes detailed instructions on making the gimmick and how to use it in performance, as well as materials to construct your own gimmick in minutes.
Routines you can find on the DVD:•Promotion- which is Kyle's signature effect where a signed Five Dollar Bill changes to a Twenty Dollar Bill while the signature stays on the Twenty Dollar Bill!
•An ultimate transposition type of effect -the spectator visually see the card change without any cover.
•Bill to card change/Card to bill change.
•Change a bill to your business card.
•A Bill Switch with any type of currency.
Keypoints to remember:•The bill is borrowed in both versions.
•Everything can be examined before and after.
•In every version you start and end clean.
•Easy to do.
•Reset in seconds.
•Use the same gimmick over and over again.
•Endless possibilities.
•You can use any size bills.
"Clean and visual I love it!" -Dan Hauss
"F#&@°%G Brilliant!" -Rus Andrews
Reviews
(Top ▲)
I really wanted to like this. I really did...
The videos that I have seen so far from this company makes me think of them as the next SansMinds but for a very different reason.
I would like to say that the ad copy for this is 100% honest/accurate, but I cannot because of the video itself, rather because of a lack of what is in the video. I will explain in a moment.
As for the menu, it is easy to navigate and you can Play All or watch chapter by chapter. The audio quality was not great, but just okay. The video was mediocre and the camerawork was shoddy the one or two times it was not on a stationary set of sticks (tripod).
The DVD opens with a performance at what I assume is a coffee shop. Kyle Purnell performs the effect for two girls behind the counter with the camera at the other end of the counter. At no time did the camera zoom in or did he turn to the camera so you could see the bills, the signature or what was happening. After the bill was signed and it was changed from a $5/US note into a $20/US note, you had to draw that conclusion from the reaction of the two women and take his [Kyel Purnell] word for it that it happened. Neither during the performance or during the explanation could you clearly see the signature on the bill before the change, nor was it shown up close after. That to me screams "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE CLAIM".
Maurice Kim did the explanations for this video. The camera shot was all done from a head-on, wide view perspective on stationary sticks (sorry, I am using the tech term for 'tripod' here again). The video quality was not great but it was okay, the audio was a bit low at times and not sufficient in my opinion.
When Mr. Kim shows you how to cut and assemble the necessary pieces for the gimmick, he shows you how to make the gimmick itself, and then he merely tells you how to put it onto a real bill - they never actually show you. Then, they just go into the explanations of the various ways of using the gimmick.
They show you how to change a bill of one denomination to another, one playing card to another, a bill to card and vice versa and a bill to business card. Again, he tells you that the gimmick for each effect is made exactly the same way as the one he shows you how to make using to US notes at the beginning. They never show you any further processes at constructing or placing them on the bill/card for actual use.
Further more, he tells you that the gimmick is easy to open because where it needs to open is in the middle. No close-up shot to show you this.
When you make up the gimmick to use it with paper money, you will be destroying two bills, so you have to pick and choose your denominations and decide whether it is worth destroying them for this. If you choose to do a bill to card version, you will only destroy one note.
If at any time you want to change the type of transformation you wish to do - say you made your first gimmick to change a $5/US to a $20/US, then you wanted to change a $1/US into a playing card or one playing card into another, then you would have to deconstruct your $5/$20 gimmick and make another one unless you buy more of the necessary 'stuff' that comes with the DVD.
Another problem I had with this particular gimmick is, due to the nature of the gimmick, one of the open visual changes and the clean-up after the change, while not difficult at all, is LOUD. For the visual change, even if you snap your fingers to cover the noise, it still does not sound quite right. For the removal, there is no way to hide the sound. If you want to use this, from my observation (and even though I could hear it even in the performance in the coffee shop), I think you would only be able to use this in a very, very loud place. One-on-one/two/three and you are screwed.
The best change on the whole DVD was the $1 to business card and if I were to rate this whole DVD on that change alone, I would give it 4 stars. Alas, I cannot because the clean-up still suffers but the change is the quietest of them all.
The other issue I have with this is that if you want to change one playing card into another, you have to fold it in half the long way. Bills are folded in quarters the long way. There are much more visual and cleaner (read: better) versions of bill changes and card changes that show the whole face of the card or at least half the bill to make it more visual.
This DVD is WAY overprices at $39.95/USD. You get a rather mediocre production quality DVD with questionable performance points (and thus a questionable ad copy), a less-than-desirable explanation section and the 6 bits necessary to make the gimmicks.
Save your money and stay away from this one. It is getting two stars because it works the way they say it does; unfortunately, it is not as good as it could be.
The videos that I have seen so far from this company makes me think of them as the next SansMinds but for a very different reason.
I would like to say that the ad copy for this is 100% honest/accurate, but I cannot because of the video itself, rather because of a lack of what is in the video. I will explain in a moment.
As for the menu, it is easy to navigate and you can Play All or watch chapter by chapter. The audio quality was not great, but just okay. The video was mediocre and the camerawork was shoddy the one or two times it was not on a stationary set of sticks (tripod).
The DVD opens with a performance at what I assume is a coffee shop. Kyle Purnell performs the effect for two girls behind the counter with the camera at the other end of the counter. At no time did the camera zoom in or did he turn to the camera so you could see the bills, the signature or what was happening. After the bill was signed and it was changed from a $5/US note into a $20/US note, you had to draw that conclusion from the reaction of the two women and take his [Kyel Purnell] word for it that it happened. Neither during the performance or during the explanation could you clearly see the signature on the bill before the change, nor was it shown up close after. That to me screams "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE CLAIM".
Maurice Kim did the explanations for this video. The camera shot was all done from a head-on, wide view perspective on stationary sticks (sorry, I am using the tech term for 'tripod' here again). The video quality was not great but it was okay, the audio was a bit low at times and not sufficient in my opinion.
When Mr. Kim shows you how to cut and assemble the necessary pieces for the gimmick, he shows you how to make the gimmick itself, and then he merely tells you how to put it onto a real bill - they never actually show you. Then, they just go into the explanations of the various ways of using the gimmick.
They show you how to change a bill of one denomination to another, one playing card to another, a bill to card and vice versa and a bill to business card. Again, he tells you that the gimmick for each effect is made exactly the same way as the one he shows you how to make using to US notes at the beginning. They never show you any further processes at constructing or placing them on the bill/card for actual use.
Further more, he tells you that the gimmick is easy to open because where it needs to open is in the middle. No close-up shot to show you this.
When you make up the gimmick to use it with paper money, you will be destroying two bills, so you have to pick and choose your denominations and decide whether it is worth destroying them for this. If you choose to do a bill to card version, you will only destroy one note.
If at any time you want to change the type of transformation you wish to do - say you made your first gimmick to change a $5/US to a $20/US, then you wanted to change a $1/US into a playing card or one playing card into another, then you would have to deconstruct your $5/$20 gimmick and make another one unless you buy more of the necessary 'stuff' that comes with the DVD.
Another problem I had with this particular gimmick is, due to the nature of the gimmick, one of the open visual changes and the clean-up after the change, while not difficult at all, is LOUD. For the visual change, even if you snap your fingers to cover the noise, it still does not sound quite right. For the removal, there is no way to hide the sound. If you want to use this, from my observation (and even though I could hear it even in the performance in the coffee shop), I think you would only be able to use this in a very, very loud place. One-on-one/two/three and you are screwed.
The best change on the whole DVD was the $1 to business card and if I were to rate this whole DVD on that change alone, I would give it 4 stars. Alas, I cannot because the clean-up still suffers but the change is the quietest of them all.
The other issue I have with this is that if you want to change one playing card into another, you have to fold it in half the long way. Bills are folded in quarters the long way. There are much more visual and cleaner (read: better) versions of bill changes and card changes that show the whole face of the card or at least half the bill to make it more visual.
This DVD is WAY overprices at $39.95/USD. You get a rather mediocre production quality DVD with questionable performance points (and thus a questionable ad copy), a less-than-desirable explanation section and the 6 bits necessary to make the gimmicks.
Save your money and stay away from this one. It is getting two stars because it works the way they say it does; unfortunately, it is not as good as it could be.