Today I want to write about consistency with your magic. This will be a bit deep and abstract as this is a public blog I won’t mention specific magic methods or effects. A lot of magic has consistency problems that are needed for the effect to work and these consistency are missed by the audience. This is like consistency problems in movies and TV shows that are overlooked when watching a movie but then on a re watch can be caught. I won’t be talking about these kinds of inconsistencies. What I am going to talk about is creating false consistency. This is sometimes referred to as  “subtly” or a “convener” in magic. What I am talking about is that during an effect you will have a situation that SHOULD exist of the situation was real but because of the method of the effect this can’t exist. So what you do is make it look like this natural condition exists even though it can’t. Does that make sense? LOL Hang in there. The thing about this is that you CAN NOT call attention to this situation that SHOULD exist. You need to move and handle the props or situation as if all was normal even though the real natural situation doesn’t exist but a false version of it does. If you call attention to it it will destroy what you are creating. To the audience nothing seems abnormal but on your side a natural situation that should exist is completely faked so the effect can work. Whew. Still with me? If you want an idea of kind of what I am talking about watch Teller’s from Pen & Teller taking out a cigarette and lighting it routine. That is a bit of what I mean. Things look natural to the audience but the real situation is very different. Ok whats is my point. Well many effects can be improved if you create some kind of fake consistency, that is shown only through a natural situation to make a stronger image in the spectators mind. As I mentioned you CAN NOT call attention to it or it defeats the whole purpose, as if it were a real situation you would not call attention to it. Doing this I believe will create stronger effects with effects with objects, mental effects, and with situation only magic. The thing is you need to do is think about and construct the routine to include this false consistency. One way to do this is to act out what an effect would look like without doing the effect but just going through the motions and imagining what things should look like if everything was real and the magic was real. Now that your head hurts good luck!