In the world of theatrical illusion, misdirection is an art of deceit in which the performer is able to draw attention of the audience to one thing to distract it from another. Controlling attention of the audience is the aim of all theater, and the foremost need of any magic act. It doesn't matter if the magic is an "pocket trick" variety or an extensive stage production that relies on misdirection, it is the primary key to the success. The term describes either the result (the observer's focus on an unimportant object) or the sleight-of-hand and patter (the magician's speech) that causes the illusion.
It's difficult to determine who was the first person to coin the term, but an early reference to misdirection appears in the writing of an influential author and magician named Nevil Maskelyne. it is a method of distracting the viewer's senses in order to screen from detection certain details for which secrecy is required. Around the same time, the magician and artist Harlan Tarbell noted, Nearly all the art of illusion relies on the art of misdirection.
Magicians who have studied and evolved techniques for misdirection includes Malini, Tommy Wonder, Derren Brown, Tamariz, Slydini as well as Dynamo.
Henry Hay describes the chief act of conjuring as manipulating interest.
Magicians misdirect audience attention by using two fundamental ways. One causes the audience to turn their attention away for a short moment, so that they do not notice a act or gesture. The other approach re-frames the viewers' perceptions, leading them into thinking that an extraneous factor can be a factor in the accomplishment of the feat but it actually isn't a factor in the result in any way. Fitzkee notes that The real talent of the magician is in the skill that he displays in manipulating the spectators mind. In addition, sometimes, props such as magic wands aids in confusion.
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Lacking misdirection, even the most skilled sleight-of-hand or mechanical prop is not likely to create an illusion of convincing magic. To be sure, misdirection is the essence of powerful magic.
Misdirection makes use of the limitations of human brains to give the wrong picture and memory. The brain of an average person in the audience can only concentrate on only one thing at a given time. The magician uses this to influence the audience's ideas or perceptions of sensory input which leads them to incorrect conclusions.
Many magicians have debated the meaning of the term, misdirection, creating a great deal of discussion about the meaning of it and how it functions.
Expert magician Jon Finch
identified a difference between direction and misdirection. One being a negative term, and the other positive. In the end, he sees the two as the same thing. If a performer some method, has influenced the thoughts of the viewers to believe that he's done something which he has not done, he's wrongly led them to believe this; hence, misdirection.
Tommy Wonder has pointed out that it is much more efficient, from a magician's point of view in focusing on the purpose of directing the audience's attention. He states that misdirection is wrong direction. It suggests that attention is directed away towards something. Through constant use of this phrase the idea eventually becomes it is ingrained into our brains that we may begin to think that misdirection is directing the attention away from instead of towards something.
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Tony Slydini said that if the magician believe that, the audience will believe it and the magic they can't see. Misdirection is true when they believe in what the magician is doing and then follow the magician. resource on misdirection
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