Facade by Colin McLeod

Facade by Colin McLeod  

THE BLURB:
This latest release from Colin Mcleod explores his most
renowned method in a variety of new ways providing you with
the opportunity to allow your audiences to experience real
mind reading and mind control phenomena!

For the first time, Colin explains the workings of three of
his most treasured routines. These three routines have
gained Colin global recognition from his peers who have
already witnessed his performances.

Building on his classic routine of predicting someone�s
choice of a randomly thought of word, Colin will now teach
you how to involve the entire audience in the process and
influence them to think of the same word too. This takes the
effect and turns it from what Bob Cassidy would consider a
'minor effect' to a 'major effect'. As a professional
performer, this subtlety will make all the difference when
it comes to performing this routine in front of a real
audience.

Not only that, but you can read someone's mind and tell them
exactly which word from an 'imagined' portion of a book they
are thinking of (fellow performers who have seen Colin use
this believe it's now the strongest actual Book Test
available … and there is NO BOOK). This is the perfect
mind reading effect and the next logical step for this
technique. The person being used actually believes you must
be inside their head reading their mind. The dual reality
utilised here is what Colin considers be �parallel dual
reality. That is that both the spectator and the audience
can discuss the routine and both sides of the routine
reinforce the other! To say this is just an update of
Colin's 'Bookless Test' would be completely inaccurate. He's
moved the thinking in a brand new direction, cleaning it up
and making it far more direct. Once you've read this, you
see you instantly have a piece of direct Mentalism you can
keep on you at all times!

Finally, hand out an envelope and have a group of people
spell out a word letter by letter, on opening the envelope,
the exact word has been predicted. When you learn this new
handing, you're immediately going to think of a variety of
ways to apply this to your current repertoire. This is the
cleanest and easiest prediction you will ever perform close
up or on stage. It looks as direct and as genuine as
possible as there is no room to be seen to be doing anything
which may be considered suspect.

Beyond this, you'll gain a full understanding of the
creative journey undertaken to develop this routine into
what it has become today. Colin doesn't hold back as he
explains not only a variety of other uses for this
'technique' but also explores a multitude of things he has
dismissed over the years and why. The entire pros and cons
thinking so know exactly why it has been refined to what it
is today.

By the end of this manuscript you will have have gained the
full understanding of three of Colin's most desirable
routines. These are routines Colin has performed in venues
all over the world AND even more advanced versions of
routines he has performed on national television in the UK.
Not only this, Colin will then explore other avenues
altogether where you may find this technique can enhance the
performance aspect of many routines you already perform.

If you thought you knew all there was too know about Colin's
thinking in this area. THINK AGAIN. Colin is finally
releasing the routines he has been performing for the past
few years.

PS: As will all of Colin's works, this manuscript is only
going to be available for a limited time, so if you're
interested in adding three new stunning pieces of Mentalism
that YOU WILL USE to your act, order now to avoid
disappointment!

PPS: This manuscript teaches three complete routines,
performances and methods from Colin's professional act. Over
and above this, a number of alternative handlings and
performance ideas are included, encouraging you to adapt
everything you have learned to allow you to create routines
specific and meaningful to you and ultimately your
audiences.

MY COMMENTS:
One of the most talked about routines from Colin McLeod's
best-selling OPENING MINDS set is his "Bookless Book Test." 
He even performed it on the television show Penn & Teller
Fool Us. (You can see his performance on YouTube). This
45-page PDF manuscript details both the original handling
and variations using the idea. It includes many color
photographs to illustrate the routine. 

The blurb is pretty accurate as to its contents. I will
only add that the original effect requires a gimmick that
you may have to purchase at a magic shop if you don't
already have it. However, McLeod includes a version which
uses a gimmick one can make using desktop publishing. 
McLeod is certainly one of mentalism newest thinkers, as
those who have his OPENING MINDS know. If you're a fan of
the "Bookless Book Test," then you probably have skipped my
comments and gone right to order it. If you're unfamiliar
with this, this certainly is a work that has practical ideas
that I should think every mentalist would be interested in.