Magic Tricks

I get the fact that this was a LIVE event that is now being sold as a whole piece after the event, but there's something to be said about judicious editing to cut through the viscera and anything that distracts from a watchable "how to" or getting to the meat of the show. A good twenty minutes of unwatchable bits could be cut that are totally wincingly bad TV. If all three cameras are running with an operator so that you could edit for when he says " can you get this angle here?" and they don't, you miss out on reeeeeeaaaaallly valuable angles of descriptive video....but you don't because it was live, and editing takes a lot of time and money. And you guys are magicians who know that angles are important, right?

But since this was a "Once In A Lifetime" opportunity to film him and get it right (and since he says that he'll never do a lot of this stuff ever again) the investment in time and money to produce it might have been money well spent to create a much better product than what is sold here.