 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Raven DVD from Chuck Leach and Chaz Pro Magic. All right, so what is the Raven DVD? It is a companion guide to the Raven Utility. The Raven Utility is a magic gimmick that enables you to make small objects disappear. Most people are familiar with the Raven. I picked up the Raven DVD from PenguinMagic.com to learn more about the hookup and some of the amazing possibilities you are able to do with this gimmick. This video contains 20 different effects that you can do with a Raven. You can do a shrinking die, a vanishing bill, there's a diamond penny transposition there, there's a vanishing cigarette, a lot of vanishes, vanishing coins, changing a coin in the spectator's hand, you can do a card to coin, there's a bare-handed coin appearance and a vanish, and then also Chuck Leach teaches you the empty hands move. In this DVD and the reason why it's significant, it also teaches you how to do a hookup. If you buy the Raven by itself, there aren't really any instructions that accompany it. A lot of the guesswork is up to you to figure out. Chuck goes over how to do a short sleeve hookup, a long sleeve and a jacket hookup. It's 21 minutes long. All right, so a couple questions we always ask about all of our Magic products. The first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? Nothing. It is a DVD and you get a box and that's it. Is it what I thought? It's absolutely what I thought. I was looking to get a DVD that could just enhance my Raven Magic a little bit more and that's pretty much what you're getting. All right, so how are the angles on the Raven? The Raven has some angle issues. I would say more so from the sides. You certainly don't see a lot of people doing this when the former is standing and the audience is sitting. Usually it's both spectators are standing. You're doing it in a surrounded setting. But some people have improved upon their Raven handling and they are pretty much able to get some really good angles out of it. Can it be inspected? If you do the trick correctly, there shouldn't be anything for your spectators to inspect. How's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? The DVD is a VHS transfer. So this was originally a video set and so your transfer and your quality level is very poor. It's very grainy. It looks like you're watching an old VHS. It's shot in a lot of the very old style ways that magic videos used to be shot where the performer was standing against a curtain and he wasn't mic'ed and it was very echoey and the film quality is grainy. But I think the reason why this DVD is still around is because nobody has ever made a better one. So this is pretty much what you get if you go out and look for a DVD to companion your Raven. What are the positives to this? Positives are there's over 20 different things covered on this that will enable you to enhance your magic. Negatives, like I said, quality level is low, production value is low, but overall you get what you pay for. Is it worth your money? It's 15 bucks, $15 to add on in your cart. You're going to pick up the Raven. You might as well get the Raven DVD so that you can learn more about the setup and learn more about some of the amazing possibilities that you can do with this gimmick. Who would like this DVD? Anybody who's purchasing the Raven right now or looking to purchase it in the future, I think should definitely pick this up. Or if you've had the Raven but you've been in your box for a while and you haven't really used it and you kind of don't see the point to it, I think maybe you should pick this up, spend the 15 bucks and see some of the possibilities that you can do. All right, so that is my review for the Raven DVD from Chuck Leach and Chaz Pro Magic. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it at www.kingwoodmagic.com.