 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at contrast from Victor Sands. What is contrast? Basically, it's a torn card effect. A card is selected, signed and then folded One little corner is torn off and then depending on how you go with the trick You can either change the entire color of the back of the selected card Or you can just change the color of the tiny torn piece. You want to see what it looks like Scratch everything you know about color changes and torn card effects This is a visual single-card color change that seems impossible even for magicians. From the mind of Victor Sands We bring you a fresh eye catcher that looks utterly impossible This is contrast Imagine leaving an unexplainable souvenir in your spectator's hands to take away with The spectator signs the card and even tears a piece off right before the magical moment You know, there's only one corner for one card, right? Check this out. The rest of the card visually changes into a contrasting color You immediately hand everything out to your spectators leaving them in disbelief of what they just saw And the weird thing is to put that back See if it's still match though and your signature signature and go to the camera tell them what happened You can even change the torn piece that's inside the spectator's hand Put that back on see if it's still match with your signature check out your signature. Is that your signature there? This is the color change for this day and age All right, so that was contrast from Victor Sands. You might remember Victor Sands also did Inca change This is done from Sands Mind Magic and so on this DVD. It's kind of like other Sands Minds DVDs where Jason does all the live performances and then Herman does all of the explanations In the DVD menus. All right, so a couple questions We always ask about all of our magic products and the first of which is what is in the box What's in the box? You're gonna get two things You're gonna get your DVD your DVD is 43 minutes and it's gonna offer you two ways To perform this effect you're gonna get kind of get two tricks in one and you're gonna get a very well made gimmick Is it what I thought? You know what I really didn't have any idea Well, what to think on this one saw it in the trailer thought it was amazing wanted to look at it Had no possible idea about how this was done Was really pleasantly surprised when I received this taking out the gimmick looking at it Just being blown away by the gimmick. It's a it's a really crazy cool gimmick And I think you'll like it. How are the angles on this? They're very good You know for a torn card effect where you're folding cards and there's you know possibility of flashing It's really got really great angles. And so again couldn't recommend this more Really cool effect. Can it be inspected at the end of the trick? There shouldn't be anything left to inspect. You are going to do some ditching But that shouldn't be a problem for a seasoned card person What's the overall quality and production value of the dvd? Hey, it's everything you'd expect from a sans mines video. It's shot in hd. It's well lit It's got good camera angles. It's got good microphones lots of different Kind of ways to look at the presentation Like I said, there's live performances Tons of q&a tons of tips great dvd all around is the gimmick well made. It's very well made In fact, I wouldn't even want to make this myself I don't even I mean I have an idea about how they made it But I I would not want to make this so I was very glad that sans mines gives you a completed gimmick How much practice does it require? It will require some practice I would say even though this is not a torn and restored magic trick It's still going to require the same amount of practice that you would put into a standard card trick where you fold the card into quarters and begin tearing corners off I think even though it's not a tnr It's still going to require the same amount of time and practice that you would put into a tnr still the same kind of Methodology as far as how you would practice watching your angles Going through your routine. I think all of that would still apply to contrast. How much setup and reset is there? There's actually very little. There is some advanced prep work. You're going to need extra cards, obviously And so that's that's a given There is one variation to this trick where you know, the corner changes color That's the impossible souvenir ending that does require some arts and crafts and those are Extensive there's a lot involved to that changing the color of the three-quarter back. That's much easier trick Changing the color of the tiny little corner That takes a lot of advanced prep work and you will have to make some crazy Gaffes for that positives one of the positives to contrast Multiple methods taught mentioned that lots of advice lots of tips mentioned that great plot twist I think that when you start doing this Especially if you start doing this to a magician or someone who's already seen a standard tnr trick They're going to expect the card trick to go a certain direction And then you flip the table on them and it goes a whole different direction So great plot twist to the standard tnr. I think if you do tnr's right now And that's something that you like. I think you'll definitely love contrast negatives. All right So what are the negatives to contrast like we say around here? There's negatives to everything These are just the negatives that I see they don't have to be the negatives that you see Obviously with the tnr that involves gas the trick's going to be a little Nacky, okay, it's going to be a little dirty. That's just how these go. This is just the nature of these The flashing probability is probably high I only say that because what you're doing is a color change You're going from red to blue or from blue to red or whatever you want to do So so the possibility that you could flash your Reveal color early. That's high. Okay, I would say that would go with any color change So you need to practice your angles You need to practice your timing and make sure you get that down to a minimum on the dvd Also, there is one thing that herman says is that when you are in performance mode You probably need to pick your surroundings so that you're not in a setting that's really really quiet You probably want a little ambient background noise like a party or traffic or a club or a restaurant with you know clanging plates and stuff I'm not saying that contrast talks But it has the probability to talk And so you might just want to pick your settings on that and that might be a negative for some All right, so is it worth your money? Contrast is 35 dollars 35 dollars for a 43 minute dvd. Okay That's really good and we're getting a incredibly well-made gimmick. So I would say it's definitely Worth your money. I think if you take care of your gimmick, it'll last you a really long time Almost an hour of instruction. Uh, who can't be that? Great product from sans minds magic. I would like this fans of color changes fans of t and rs People that like really creative card tricks. I think would definitely like contrast All right, so that is my review for contrast from victor sans and sans minds magic We'd like to thank murphy's magic for providing this for us so that we can review it for you And if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite murphy's magic supplier. Thanks. Bye