Martin Lewis's Making Magic - Volume 1

Each Martin Lewis DVD features six strong, audience tested, stand up effects plucked from his own Cabaret act. Martin shows you, in a step-by-step hands on guide, how to make the "props" on your kitchen table quickly and easily with only basic tools and materials and needing no special skills. Then, in live performance, see how the apparatus is used to really make magic

Volume One Routines:

• Big Switch
  A great MC bit. Attempting to right a wrong the peformer shows the audience how to switch a card... Literally!
  
• Snacks Alive!
  Martin's take on the classic vanishing bottle. The delayed climax provides a pleasing ending without insulting the audiences intelligence. Perfect for both children and adults.
  
• Come-Back Card
  A very visual card effect for the platform. A card keeps jumping to the face of a pack, which is out of the performers hands. Created by Martin's father Eric Lewis.
  
• Technicolor Prediction
  A prediction effect with built in comedy that leads up to a suprising finale. Easy to customize for different audiences. Each time the outcome is different.
  
• Ripstix
  The classic Chinese Sticks never had much of a finish until now. This one leaves the audience really baffled.
  
• Cardiographic
  Yes you can make one, it's easier than you think! For the first time on videotape Martin reveals all of the details and subtle touches that brings his sketchpad card rise effect into the miracle class.