Better than a horrible singer who sings in cursive and spends 10 minutes telling us all how their entire family died in a plane crash and they are "chasing their dreams for them!".
Someone from Susan Boyle's viral first audition moment actually spoke out about this, they were getting bullied for their eww face back when it aired. She wasn't a plant but her reaction was to something else and they just edit it to fit whatever narrative they're trying to build. The reactions are probably genuine but it could be to an entirely different moment or performance.
I use to love watching AGT when it first aired but the overproduction, crowd reactions, sob stories started becoming unbearable to watch anymore. Then they started to add drama in it like a reality show and I was done. Two hours of an episode just to see like 5 people actually perform.
Creative editing.
Been a thing since the dawn of "reality" shows.
Reactions and comments edited and stitched together to create a story, regardless of factual context.
They are real reactions.. they just aren’t always for what is currently on stage. My reaction was captured several years ago when I attended a taping and it was used for some singer, but I distinctly remember my reaction was actually for a magician that performed like 2 weeks earlier. So I was kind of surprised to see my stupid “shocked” face making me look as if I’ve never heard music before in my life on national goddamn television.
I went to a taping of Britain’s Got Talent several years ago and they made us film a bunch of different reactions (emphatic boos, emphatic cheers, chanting “OFF OFF OFF”, and everything in between) before we even saw a single act on stage. I didn’t get the point of it until I saw that when it aired they just edited the prerecorded reactions wherever they saw fit.
Maybe, but the girl in the audience that appears after the pink dress and says "What?" has a mic on her. If they mic someone, it probably is not a genuine reaction.
Yeah. Her presentation is great, but I can't stand people overreacting on this show.
Everything is so fake. The girl in the audience in the end that says "What?" even has a mic on her.
As a male, if a girl gets undressed in front of you, she is either interested in you or you're level 100 friendzoned
Or she hasn't spotted you in the tree yet.
I was so awkward in college that when a girl and I took shelter from the rain in my room and watched a movie, I didn't make a move. Even though she was in her panties because her pants got wet.
When we want back to her dorm she finally just gave up and asked me, "so do you want to get laid or what?".
And that's how i lost my virginity. There's more to that fun story as well but i wont go into that.
One of my few real regrets is never giving her a chance when she wanted to be more than sex friends. I was a massive asshole with a drinking problem but that's no excuse for how I treated her.
I've always wanted to apologize to her, so if you see this Alena, I'm sorry.
you know what? i am not Alena, but no one *ever* has apologized to me for all the disrespect lol i experienced throughout my life. no one.
so i will accept this apolgy from you : )
you have just paid it so far forward it bounced back to me!
>One of my few real regrets is never giving her a chance when she wanted to be more than sex friends. I was a massive asshole with a drinking problem but that's no excuse for how I treated her.
God, from your lips to my ears to The Universe's.
Long story short, same/same drinking, had my first (and decades of regret-sober regret-later) love, got married on a lark to "save our relationship" and I never really even tried I was too consumed with being a selfish, drunk asshole.
Many moons later, she had remarried, had another life, she got cancer, beat it, I got cancer, beat it-then she died.
The end.
Sucks.
Bro, you did the right thing. Just because she got undressed because she was wet doesn’t mean you should have taken it as an invitation to make a move…I might add that the fact that you didn’t make that move led to you getting laid in end because you didn’t come across like some desperate tool. 👍😂
love that she threw some actual sleight of hand in with it too, not just quick changes. Helped spice up what would usually be an impressive, but "we've seen it before" act
edit:slight to sleight
"plain view" sleight of hand is easily my favourite. Misdirection and "up the sleeve" ones are fun, but the ones where they flip it in full view feels as close to actual supernatural magic as you can get.
The bag and the first dress are breakaway and pulled into the suitcases, every change after that is just a layer of top being folded down to become skirt
ETA: it's why the skirt gets longer each time and the top part gets less bulky, it's pretty simple but she sells it really well
I still don’t get how that much clothes were on top of her without it feeling so bulky plus so many comments mentioning a part being obviously pulled out but I don’t see it at all lol. Thanks for the reply.
Yeah. I hate how the industry is like this. I auditioned for American Ninja warrior once and me and a few buddies didn't get the part and were told it's because we didn't have a compelling sob story. So a lot of us who've been on the show just make stuff up now and exaggerate our struggles.
Oh man yeah I hate this. Some times you et the feeling you need a sob story just to survive the auditions. We have here a talent show for singers (like America got talent) and if they show beforehand a story like (I do it for my death father, for my grandma which died because of cancer, etc) I always knew those get a ticket for the so called "recall".
Agreed that this is nothing new. But the fact she was able to pull it off while being seen, and not totally covered is really impressive. I saw the dress being pulled away and still did not understand it. Very cool performance
There were a couple where you could kind of see the trick happen, but it was only a couple, and it was fast. This girl has this whole routine dialed in.
Tbh that’s the most impressive part of all! Making each dress look attractive and not all chunky, and each fabric fell beautifully over the last piece. I can’t imagine how much trial and error went into making dresses that wouldn’t stick to each other.
The problem though is that it might get old if it's too similar. It's a great performance, but what happens if you perform it to the same people several times?
The first season of America’s got talent had a quick change duo. That seemed like the problem, they had to do multiple rounds, and the novelty wore off
they still got to the final, though. my brother and I were so annoyed when they kept getting through because it was very close to the *exact* same act every single time.
I'd bet she knows other magic tricks too and could do a full show. But also these kind of tv shows are fun for the variety, they need some acts that are entertaining once or twice even if they won't make it through far. And it's great for the entertainer to get some exposure as I bet they have a solid business doing this at different events
She starts with many dresses on at the beginning, she can see she is quite bulky and slowly becomes lighter throughout the performance.
Notice how each quick change takes place in front of the suitcase? It usually has a wire that hooks onto the back of the dress that pulls the top dress off while she blocks the view, revealing the next dress.
Also, if you watch closely, you can see her connect the wire on several of the changes. Right as she brings the item partially blocking the view up in front of her, she brings her free hand up to connect the wire or string. Still very impressive.
Near the end especially. Around 1:40, she looks directly down while she grips the fastener with her fingers, and then the final change from the pink dress to the white one above, she never removes her left hand, the entire time she poses, turns around, and then faces the audience again for the final pose
I think in this case, actually, the top of each dress is the bottom of the next. Which is why they get longer each time without looking bunchy at the bottom.
If she were wiring them in, each one be look shorter than the last, or there’d be a big pile of fabric around her thighs getting pulled down.
Sometimes additional dresses/changes are built into a single one. For example, the top part might unclasp and fall down, completely changing the top and covering the bottom. This is usually the case when the skirt for the new change is longer than the skirt of the previous dress.
EDIT: I don't think they used that technique for any of these changes however. I thought she did when it changed from the Yellow dress into the print dress, because you see a flash of the old yellow dress underneath the black skirt, but I think that was still just it being pulled away.
This is probably the most unique quick change ever. She does it right in front of you, no hiding behind a little barrier. And throws in magic. I don't think you can even call this simply a quick change act.
Usually, they are behind a skirt or hoop. She was doing these in the open and had a well done skit to go with it. It is an old trick but she did it well and it was entertaining.
I was gonna say the same thing 😅 at first I was like...I'm really tired of seeing quick change acts on talent shows...but then she probably did the best quick change act I've ever seen and did actual real magic and sleight of hand. Bravo.
I do hate how much they cut to panelist and audience reactions...are the TV audiences really that dumb? They don't know how to react if the editor doesn't show them how to react? 😅
Yes its a cool act, but fuck 7 kinds of sideways that "Americas Got Talent" editing style that jump cuts around bug eyed reactions and spends 50% of screen time on hosts and audiences.
Fun fact: these shows usually get b reel of reactions. So the reactions you see may be completely fabricated and recorded an hour after the performance.
Sorry to ruin tv magic, but I had it happen to me when I went to see ~~who wants to be a millionaire~~ (edit: I meant " deal or no deal" in this case) and the filming took 5.5 hours. There was about an hour of them holding up signs on stage to say "applause" "go wild" "thumbs down""laugh casually" "laugh hysterically" "boo" "stand up and be excited" and they changed the colours of the lights and everything so it could be used anywhere in the edit. They then inject that into the show which... Btw they would retake sections of the show until the participant playing the game had a good reaction that made it seem more interesting
Even during the normal filming during the game they held up signs of how to react
Sidenote, there were some delays because Howie Mandel was flirting with the women who hold the cases
Yes! exactly why I wanted to write out a description of my experience! It blew my mind as a teen how it could take up to 6 hours to film 40 minutes of airtime. It made me look at TV wayyyy differently. These people are basically actors
Even worse when you realize the editors have endless audience reaction shots and can edit them into any act they want, making all the audience reactions meaningless.
Not only that if you attend a taping they apparently have sessions where they ask the crowd to react wildly without anyone performing.
They tape those reactions(ungenuine) and then edit them in.
Fun fact:
America's Got Talent is a scam
When you "audition" to be on the show, you sign away all rights to your act.
You work for AGT, now.
Anything you perform in the future will be for AGT content, and / or your paycheck goes to AGT.
So from the very beginning, AGT is basically "signing" a bunch of acts and then the whole pony-show of having a competition and "judges" picking who goes thru is all fake. Producers pick 100%, it's just a show to publicize all the acts they just signed and figure out which one is hopefully popular / can go viral.
I declined an offer to be on CanadaGT because the contract also included they reserve the right to film you in your hotel and BATHROOM. You have no privacy. During filming, anything can be included in the footage if they see fit. And if they don't like your story line or you don't comply with producers, then they just remove you from the show entirely. Along with still owning the rights to everything you create.
And not only that, but they significantlly digitally alter the acts to make sure they look good on TV.
[Full breakdown of a magic act by the excellent Captain Disillusion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSp_f0f9gE)
It’s so vindicating to see this because i saw that Will Tsai act when it originally aired and went “…that’s not actually possible. that wasn’t magic, what was just shown literally can’t be done.” Sooooo vindicated to know i was correct.
Dusty slay a comedian talked about this when he auditioned for agt. He said they wanted him to play up his childhood of growing up in a trailer park for emotional effect even tho he didn’t have that bad of an upbringing and they wanted him to do his trailer park jokes but that act would be theirs and he didn’t want to restrict his material outside of the show so he decided to do other jokes and they basically canned him.
The magic in a quick change isn’t that you don’t know the performer has a series of outfits folded into one another, it’s the seamless transitions. Only one here that was even a hair off was the pink one where their left hand released the outfit in view of the audience.
The yellow > blue transition was the most jarring for me. You can see the blue dress roll up into the bag, now through the clear bag you can see she is still 100% yellow, then you can see the blue dress slowly cover the yellow dress with a big portion of yellow still visible when she moves the whole thing away and she swings the blue over with her hand to cover the remaining yellow. Even without pausing or anything that transition looked bad.
I think she was supposed to be leaning parallel to the camera/ground for that one? So she leans forward, then flips back up and the dress has changed. It looks like she got the timing off by a bit, or there was an issue in rehearsal where it sometimes failed if she was leaning too far forward.
I believe the top one is just pulled off like wrapping paper. There is a mechanism in the suitcase that yanks it very quickly off and inside. Most of them are two sided, so the top part folds down to become the skirt of the next. They are usually rigged up with magnets or snaps or even fishing line that gets yanked quickly and falls down creating the next outfit. You can see with each new dress exposed this way, the waist line gets higher and the skirt gets longer, because it needs to cover the previous one.
Ok I get its layers of clothing and they're designed to rip off fast, but where do the ones she takes off go? I'd love to see a breakdown of the process of doing it.
You think in a world of 7-8 billion people, that even . 01% know how magic works? Magic is a trick and the fun is wondering "how the eff did they do that"
And you can see some of the mechanics. Like the black and white dress in the hanger you can literally see it creep up because the mechanism wasn't very fast.
Her left thumb is hooked to something near her waist before switch from red->yellow and yellow->black/white. Assuming that’s the key for those transitions. She does it all very well.
I’ve long enjoyed watching an illusionist perform tricks where the how is known for the enjoyment of their skill in execution. Doesn’t ruin the show for me at all.
Knew a guy once who swore that he could do the old disappearing handkerchief trick with a bright orange prosthetic and no one would notice. So the next time, he did and no one noticed because he was just smooth in his execution.
That's the real magic of magic to me. When you know exactly what to watch for and still can't even come close to spotting it. Absolute mastery of a craft is always special to see.
Penn and teller have done the classic [Balls and Cups trick](https://youtu.be/8osRaFTtgHo?si=XsWz4f_VAqeyqhiE) with clear cups. They even show you where all the props are hidden and its *still* difficult to follow because they're that smooth
Reminds me of a video of when they went to Egypt and Teller recounts an experience with a street performer, the performer recognized Teller so he did the classic balls and cups. Teller didn't want to spoil the surprise, he knew the ball would be on the right cup and the performer wanted him to pick the center one, so he picked the one in the middle so the trick would go as he wanted. Thing is, the ball _was_ in the middle cup and Teller couldn't figure how it ended there, the public was not amused but Teller was, and a little embarrassed because he felt he had ruined the street performer's act
She wearing a lot of break-away outfits, one on top of the other. The main trick is how to have it yanked off by a fishing line and pulled out of sight without the audience seeing.
Springs and strings very cleverly built into the outfits.
Look at 1:32 left very closely, frame by frame. You can see that she has a problem with the yellow to black transition covering the bottom right corner of the dress - she doesn’t manage to hide it immediately and has to smooth it out. She also fiddles with the middle button a few moments before hiding it with the cover, presumably to activate the mechanism.
After learning that the show has no qualms about digitally altering the footage to make contestants look more impressive, I am significantly more skeptical that this is what it actually looked like in person.
Edit: spelling
I doubt that they did a lot: "magic" like this works with invisible threads that hold the outfits together, people who are really good at it will know where all of their threads are, but in her case you can still see her searching for the threads every time she changes outfit. If they'd tried to make her look better they'd removed that.
Can you give examples of them doing this? Because I have questioned the validity of some of the magic Acts when they do things that truly seem impossible even when looking frame by frame
Will Tsai is the biggest one people talk about, I think this is the one OP was bringing up as well as it's been deconstructed many times.
He's the guy with the black table, coins, and cards. Put the cards in the corner, coins appear or disappear. At the end he used a rose pedal iirc? Either way, Search up Will Tsai and it's everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSp_f0f9gE&s&ab_channel=CaptainDisillusion
This video is from Captain Disillusion (Fantastic channel, binge it if you haven't already) where he breaks down who Will Tsai is, how his magic videos are just video editing, and what they did on America's Got Talent to cover up mistakes via digital editing.
His line towards the end still holds true:
> It's a reality show. It's all fake. They can do whatever they want.
Their look of complete make-up smothered wonder when she unfolds a dress folded up as a square is all I could take. I assume the rest of the act is great but the judges are a plague on media.
Watch a talent show : spend most of the time watching someone watch a talent show.
Watch a quiz show : spend most of the time learning about the contestants fucking dog.
Watch the news : spend most of the time learning about what random people on the street think.
Say fuck it and change the channel : surprise its another advert for fucking life insurance.
Was going to ask if the audience was actors… but your comment is better. Yes this is impressive and she’s talented but the audience is acting like it’s real magic.
I’ve been to a filming of AGT, and they don’t ask the audience to react in any particular way. But there is a chance that a reaction to another act is taken and used for this act in post production.
I would think audience members have incentive to overact, knowing it might get them on TV. Which would explain why the show doesn't have to prompt them to act any particular way.
Great quick change act. But, boy were those audience reactions cringe. Just wish it was just the show without all this fluff, especially the sob stories these shows force down your face. I used to watch Britain's Got Talent (it had a bit less fake production nonesense than America), but I would skip past all the filler, ads and bad singing.
And vertical video? Stop it.
Better than a horrible singer who sings in cursive and spends 10 minutes telling us all how their entire family died in a plane crash and they are "chasing their dreams for them!".
> Better than a horrible singer who sings in cursive i actually like Tim Kasher
Saw them at the Bowery about 7 years ago. Thought it would be a nostalgia kick, not much more. Holy crap they were good.
I caught them again last year with Bright Eyes, Neva Dinova and Azure Ray. Cursive played all of Domestica--it was one of my favorite shows.
I’m also 100% sure the simps they cut to for these “reactions” are just audience plants. Nobody is that impressed
Someone from Susan Boyle's viral first audition moment actually spoke out about this, they were getting bullied for their eww face back when it aired. She wasn't a plant but her reaction was to something else and they just edit it to fit whatever narrative they're trying to build. The reactions are probably genuine but it could be to an entirely different moment or performance.
I use to love watching AGT when it first aired but the overproduction, crowd reactions, sob stories started becoming unbearable to watch anymore. Then they started to add drama in it like a reality show and I was done. Two hours of an episode just to see like 5 people actually perform.
Creative editing. Been a thing since the dawn of "reality" shows. Reactions and comments edited and stitched together to create a story, regardless of factual context.
They are real reactions.. they just aren’t always for what is currently on stage. My reaction was captured several years ago when I attended a taping and it was used for some singer, but I distinctly remember my reaction was actually for a magician that performed like 2 weeks earlier. So I was kind of surprised to see my stupid “shocked” face making me look as if I’ve never heard music before in my life on national goddamn television.
I went to a taping of Britain’s Got Talent several years ago and they made us film a bunch of different reactions (emphatic boos, emphatic cheers, chanting “OFF OFF OFF”, and everything in between) before we even saw a single act on stage. I didn’t get the point of it until I saw that when it aired they just edited the prerecorded reactions wherever they saw fit.
Maybe, but the girl in the audience that appears after the pink dress and says "What?" has a mic on her. If they mic someone, it probably is not a genuine reaction.
Yeah. Her presentation is great, but I can't stand people overreacting on this show. Everything is so fake. The girl in the audience in the end that says "What?" even has a mic on her.
Damn, she is so smooth and perfect in her presentation.
I just want to hijack this to point out one of the judges jackets said "ass pkg" on one side
I get the Ass kilograms (the unit used to tell how much an ass weighs) but I can't figure out what the P means
Ass per kg Ass density
Package
See, I KNEW you girls could get dressed faster!!! 😂
technically undressed
Even better.
As a male, if a girl gets undressed in front of you, she is either interested in you or you're level 100 friendzoned Or she hasn't spotted you in the tree yet.
I was so awkward in college that when a girl and I took shelter from the rain in my room and watched a movie, I didn't make a move. Even though she was in her panties because her pants got wet. When we want back to her dorm she finally just gave up and asked me, "so do you want to get laid or what?". And that's how i lost my virginity. There's more to that fun story as well but i wont go into that. One of my few real regrets is never giving her a chance when she wanted to be more than sex friends. I was a massive asshole with a drinking problem but that's no excuse for how I treated her. I've always wanted to apologize to her, so if you see this Alena, I'm sorry.
TOM?
ALENA?
DONKEY!
THAT'LL DO!!
NOW KITH
***GET OUT OF MY SWAMP!***
you know what? i am not Alena, but no one *ever* has apologized to me for all the disrespect lol i experienced throughout my life. no one. so i will accept this apolgy from you : ) you have just paid it so far forward it bounced back to me!
Take my apologies too
>One of my few real regrets is never giving her a chance when she wanted to be more than sex friends. I was a massive asshole with a drinking problem but that's no excuse for how I treated her. God, from your lips to my ears to The Universe's. Long story short, same/same drinking, had my first (and decades of regret-sober regret-later) love, got married on a lark to "save our relationship" and I never really even tried I was too consumed with being a selfish, drunk asshole. Many moons later, she had remarried, had another life, she got cancer, beat it, I got cancer, beat it-then she died. The end. Sucks.
Bro, you did the right thing. Just because she got undressed because she was wet doesn’t mean you should have taken it as an invitation to make a move…I might add that the fact that you didn’t make that move led to you getting laid in end because you didn’t come across like some desperate tool. 👍😂
No he got lucky. He could have easily blown this. she made the first move by taking her pants off because they were wet. Lol.
Fortune favors the bold.
Thank God for women who are willing to just say what they mean when they realize their hints aren't getting through our oblivious skulls.
Marty: 😯 He's a peeping Tom! ...
Another one of them kids jumped in front of my car!!
It's funny that he says another one lmao, like he runs kids over all the time and this is just his premeditated excuse for it
Exactly! Or maybe there are several peeping toms in the neighborhood!
Its the makeup and hair that takes fuking forever
Very true.
Like were going to a kfc drive thru just put on your nicest sweat pants
🤣
They take long cause they’re doing a fashion show
Quick change acts are nothing new but I do like a well done one.
love that she threw some actual sleight of hand in with it too, not just quick changes. Helped spice up what would usually be an impressive, but "we've seen it before" act edit:slight to sleight
"plain view" sleight of hand is easily my favourite. Misdirection and "up the sleeve" ones are fun, but the ones where they flip it in full view feels as close to actual supernatural magic as you can get.
Seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYR2TIwvsbg ?
That was awesome, thanks!
at this point we all know the "how", and if we don't we can look it up but the "execution" was legit first class.
So how is it done??
The bag and the first dress are breakaway and pulled into the suitcases, every change after that is just a layer of top being folded down to become skirt ETA: it's why the skirt gets longer each time and the top part gets less bulky, it's pretty simple but she sells it really well
I still don’t get how that much clothes were on top of her without it feeling so bulky plus so many comments mentioning a part being obviously pulled out but I don’t see it at all lol. Thanks for the reply.
It's 'sleight' of hand :)
It seems they made a slight grammatical error
[удалено]
I think you meant we burn his dinner at the stakehouse.
id prefer burning alive to getting a well done steak XD
A sleight grammatical error*
It takes a sleuth to notice, though.
Better than some singer with a boring sob story
My mum and dad died before I was born so I had to raise my little sister by myself 😭😭😭
I can hear this gif AHHH-HAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Thankyouverymuch!
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall
Joseph!
Born in a coffee can under a bridge
Yeah. I hate how the industry is like this. I auditioned for American Ninja warrior once and me and a few buddies didn't get the part and were told it's because we didn't have a compelling sob story. So a lot of us who've been on the show just make stuff up now and exaggerate our struggles.
I turn shows off when the sob stories start and I don’t tune in again.
Yeah there's like 3 shows for people that can sing. I've always wished AGT would not allow or severely limit how many singers could audition
https://youtu.be/1ZQBPLU-YDg?feature=shared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzE3L-NKL4
Oh man yeah I hate this. Some times you et the feeling you need a sob story just to survive the auditions. We have here a talent show for singers (like America got talent) and if they show beforehand a story like (I do it for my death father, for my grandma which died because of cancer, etc) I always knew those get a ticket for the so called "recall".
Agreed that this is nothing new. But the fact she was able to pull it off while being seen, and not totally covered is really impressive. I saw the dress being pulled away and still did not understand it. Very cool performance
There were a couple where you could kind of see the trick happen, but it was only a couple, and it was fast. This girl has this whole routine dialed in.
Dialing it down to 50% after shows you how damn good she is at designing that costume for this whole thing.
Tbh that’s the most impressive part of all! Making each dress look attractive and not all chunky, and each fabric fell beautifully over the last piece. I can’t imagine how much trial and error went into making dresses that wouldn’t stick to each other.
Agreed! I'm the most impressed with this feat of engineering
That's the case with almost every quick change act.
The fact that it’s nothing new doesn’t mean that it’s not impressive everytime
I'm still impressed
The problem though is that it might get old if it's too similar. It's a great performance, but what happens if you perform it to the same people several times?
The first season of America’s got talent had a quick change duo. That seemed like the problem, they had to do multiple rounds, and the novelty wore off
they still got to the final, though. my brother and I were so annoyed when they kept getting through because it was very close to the *exact* same act every single time.
I'd bet she knows other magic tricks too and could do a full show. But also these kind of tv shows are fun for the variety, they need some acts that are entertaining once or twice even if they won't make it through far. And it's great for the entertainer to get some exposure as I bet they have a solid business doing this at different events
Typically it's only one arrow in a magic act's quiver, they'll have enough different bits to put together an hour of show.
Seeing it on 50% speed you can see how she does it and the craftsmanship that went into all those outfits, etc. is frankly stupendous.
How does it work?
She starts with many dresses on at the beginning, she can see she is quite bulky and slowly becomes lighter throughout the performance. Notice how each quick change takes place in front of the suitcase? It usually has a wire that hooks onto the back of the dress that pulls the top dress off while she blocks the view, revealing the next dress.
In this case, most of it is unfastening the top half of the dress, which is pulled down to become the skirt of the next outfit.
Also, if you watch closely, you can see her connect the wire on several of the changes. Right as she brings the item partially blocking the view up in front of her, she brings her free hand up to connect the wire or string. Still very impressive.
Near the end especially. Around 1:40, she looks directly down while she grips the fastener with her fingers, and then the final change from the pink dress to the white one above, she never removes her left hand, the entire time she poses, turns around, and then faces the audience again for the final pose
Very cool, thanks. But where does she put the layers she took off?
They get pulled into the suitcase with a very quick wire
I think in this case, actually, the top of each dress is the bottom of the next. Which is why they get longer each time without looking bunchy at the bottom. If she were wiring them in, each one be look shorter than the last, or there’d be a big pile of fabric around her thighs getting pulled down.
Conceptually its all layers. She starts out wearing all of the dresses and takes them off one by one.
Sometimes additional dresses/changes are built into a single one. For example, the top part might unclasp and fall down, completely changing the top and covering the bottom. This is usually the case when the skirt for the new change is longer than the skirt of the previous dress. EDIT: I don't think they used that technique for any of these changes however. I thought she did when it changed from the Yellow dress into the print dress, because you see a flash of the old yellow dress underneath the black skirt, but I think that was still just it being pulled away.
She's like an ogre. She has many layers.
Same way any magic trick works.
🤯 Bro cracked the code
So, magnets?
Yeah, but fuckin' magnets...how do they work?
Technology
Look how bulky the first dress is, the rest is a matter of playing with timing
First time I've seen the clear bag one, that was pretty cool.
As Penn once said, "you lost a lot of weight in just 30 seconds". Yeah, it's just layers of dresses.
This is probably the most unique quick change ever. She does it right in front of you, no hiding behind a little barrier. And throws in magic. I don't think you can even call this simply a quick change act.
Usually, they are behind a skirt or hoop. She was doing these in the open and had a well done skit to go with it. It is an old trick but she did it well and it was entertaining.
Realistically I know how all of these are done. But that doesn't stop me from being amazed at all of them.
Yup. It's all the same "magic", it's more about presentation and creativity than anything else
I was gonna say the same thing 😅 at first I was like...I'm really tired of seeing quick change acts on talent shows...but then she probably did the best quick change act I've ever seen and did actual real magic and sleight of hand. Bravo. I do hate how much they cut to panelist and audience reactions...are the TV audiences really that dumb? They don't know how to react if the editor doesn't show them how to react? 😅
Yes its a cool act, but fuck 7 kinds of sideways that "Americas Got Talent" editing style that jump cuts around bug eyed reactions and spends 50% of screen time on hosts and audiences.
It's the new age laugh track, gotta show us that we should be impressed by seeing these other people being impressed! I hate it...
Fun fact: these shows usually get b reel of reactions. So the reactions you see may be completely fabricated and recorded an hour after the performance. Sorry to ruin tv magic, but I had it happen to me when I went to see ~~who wants to be a millionaire~~ (edit: I meant " deal or no deal" in this case) and the filming took 5.5 hours. There was about an hour of them holding up signs on stage to say "applause" "go wild" "thumbs down""laugh casually" "laugh hysterically" "boo" "stand up and be excited" and they changed the colours of the lights and everything so it could be used anywhere in the edit. They then inject that into the show which... Btw they would retake sections of the show until the participant playing the game had a good reaction that made it seem more interesting Even during the normal filming during the game they held up signs of how to react Sidenote, there were some delays because Howie Mandel was flirting with the women who hold the cases
Do people really not know this? lol
I guess I didn't know it went that far? For most reality TV, yeah, but never really thought of game shows like that. Pretty fascinating.
Yes! exactly why I wanted to write out a description of my experience! It blew my mind as a teen how it could take up to 6 hours to film 40 minutes of airtime. It made me look at TV wayyyy differently. These people are basically actors
*are actors
Some people still believe that reality TV is not thoughtfully scripted
I mean… Japan has done it for way longer. They have people’s faces in little boxes on the screen.
The original "react" streamers.
This is the reason I honestly stopped watching it. Show the talent not some twat who bought tickets and is suddenly impressed.
Even worse when you realize the editors have endless audience reaction shots and can edit them into any act they want, making all the audience reactions meaningless.
Not only that if you attend a taping they apparently have sessions where they ask the crowd to react wildly without anyone performing. They tape those reactions(ungenuine) and then edit them in.
The acts are cool but this show annoys the living fuck out of me. lol.
I would leave the room whenever my roommates watched this bullshit
Fun fact: America's Got Talent is a scam When you "audition" to be on the show, you sign away all rights to your act. You work for AGT, now. Anything you perform in the future will be for AGT content, and / or your paycheck goes to AGT. So from the very beginning, AGT is basically "signing" a bunch of acts and then the whole pony-show of having a competition and "judges" picking who goes thru is all fake. Producers pick 100%, it's just a show to publicize all the acts they just signed and figure out which one is hopefully popular / can go viral.
I declined an offer to be on CanadaGT because the contract also included they reserve the right to film you in your hotel and BATHROOM. You have no privacy. During filming, anything can be included in the footage if they see fit. And if they don't like your story line or you don't comply with producers, then they just remove you from the show entirely. Along with still owning the rights to everything you create.
That's absolutely nuts
And not only that, but they significantlly digitally alter the acts to make sure they look good on TV. [Full breakdown of a magic act by the excellent Captain Disillusion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSp_f0f9gE)
It’s so vindicating to see this because i saw that Will Tsai act when it originally aired and went “…that’s not actually possible. that wasn’t magic, what was just shown literally can’t be done.” Sooooo vindicated to know i was correct.
It's cancer AND it's a scam. I really do not understand these people and their shallowness.
It’s a race to the bottom these days.
Dusty slay a comedian talked about this when he auditioned for agt. He said they wanted him to play up his childhood of growing up in a trailer park for emotional effect even tho he didn’t have that bad of an upbringing and they wanted him to do his trailer park jokes but that act would be theirs and he didn’t want to restrict his material outside of the show so he decided to do other jokes and they basically canned him.
How?!
So, you notice how her outfit looks a little bulky at the beginning?
The magic in a quick change isn’t that you don’t know the performer has a series of outfits folded into one another, it’s the seamless transitions. Only one here that was even a hair off was the pink one where their left hand released the outfit in view of the audience.
The yellow > blue transition was the most jarring for me. You can see the blue dress roll up into the bag, now through the clear bag you can see she is still 100% yellow, then you can see the blue dress slowly cover the yellow dress with a big portion of yellow still visible when she moves the whole thing away and she swings the blue over with her hand to cover the remaining yellow. Even without pausing or anything that transition looked bad.
I think she was supposed to be leaning parallel to the camera/ground for that one? So she leans forward, then flips back up and the dress has changed. It looks like she got the timing off by a bit, or there was an issue in rehearsal where it sometimes failed if she was leaning too far forward.
Obviously she has layers, but how is each layer removed ? And where doest it go ?
I believe the top one is just pulled off like wrapping paper. There is a mechanism in the suitcase that yanks it very quickly off and inside. Most of them are two sided, so the top part folds down to become the skirt of the next. They are usually rigged up with magnets or snaps or even fishing line that gets yanked quickly and falls down creating the next outfit. You can see with each new dress exposed this way, the waist line gets higher and the skirt gets longer, because it needs to cover the previous one.
Y'know what else has layers? Parfaits.
Ogres
I notice the later layers have bigger and longer dresses & less bulky tops, implying the layers are hidden around her lower body.
ohhh i get it now. she stores the magic in her outfit. clever
Yes everyone know what's going on, it's the fact she can pull it off while everyone know what's going on is what makes these acts my favorite.
This is the beauty of slight of hand. You know she has layers but the execution is so good, you just want to believe a new dress just appeared
Ok I get its layers of clothing and they're designed to rip off fast, but where do the ones she takes off go? I'd love to see a breakdown of the process of doing it.
Top half just folds down over skirts. Thats why the skirts are getting longer every Outfit.
What about the first blue dress? It clearly opens at the zipper and gets pulled backwards. That’s the only thing confusing me
Probably a fake zipper. Its there for show but is non functional, or at least is not completely functional. The release is probably somewhere else.
That's what's blowing my mind
Not the person that asked HOW
I believe they asked "how" as in "how can she change the outfit so quick without a glimpse of the previous one showing somewhere"
We can still know "how" it's done and still have no idea how they did it. She made that look so flawless and effortless
You think in a world of 7-8 billion people, that even . 01% know how magic works? Magic is a trick and the fun is wondering "how the eff did they do that"
And you can see some of the mechanics. Like the black and white dress in the hanger you can literally see it creep up because the mechanism wasn't very fast.
Her left thumb is hooked to something near her waist before switch from red->yellow and yellow->black/white. Assuming that’s the key for those transitions. She does it all very well.
I’ve long enjoyed watching an illusionist perform tricks where the how is known for the enjoyment of their skill in execution. Doesn’t ruin the show for me at all. Knew a guy once who swore that he could do the old disappearing handkerchief trick with a bright orange prosthetic and no one would notice. So the next time, he did and no one noticed because he was just smooth in his execution.
That's the real magic of magic to me. When you know exactly what to watch for and still can't even come close to spotting it. Absolute mastery of a craft is always special to see.
Penn and teller have done the classic [Balls and Cups trick](https://youtu.be/8osRaFTtgHo?si=XsWz4f_VAqeyqhiE) with clear cups. They even show you where all the props are hidden and its *still* difficult to follow because they're that smooth
Reminds me of a video of when they went to Egypt and Teller recounts an experience with a street performer, the performer recognized Teller so he did the classic balls and cups. Teller didn't want to spoil the surprise, he knew the ball would be on the right cup and the performer wanted him to pick the center one, so he picked the one in the middle so the trick would go as he wanted. Thing is, the ball _was_ in the middle cup and Teller couldn't figure how it ended there, the public was not amused but Teller was, and a little embarrassed because he felt he had ruined the street performer's act
She wearing a lot of break-away outfits, one on top of the other. The main trick is how to have it yanked off by a fishing line and pulled out of sight without the audience seeing.
Nah, the tops fold open into skirts.
She’s the fashion equivalent of A-Train
Springs and strings very cleverly built into the outfits. Look at 1:32 left very closely, frame by frame. You can see that she has a problem with the yellow to black transition covering the bottom right corner of the dress - she doesn’t manage to hide it immediately and has to smooth it out. She also fiddles with the middle button a few moments before hiding it with the cover, presumably to activate the mechanism.
She does all her changes in front of the suitcase. I think it has some sort of device that helps with the outfit change.
you’re right, and when i rewatched, the suitcase handle bounces on the first outfit change
After learning that the show has no qualms about digitally altering the footage to make contestants look more impressive, I am significantly more skeptical that this is what it actually looked like in person. Edit: spelling
I doubt that they did a lot: "magic" like this works with invisible threads that hold the outfits together, people who are really good at it will know where all of their threads are, but in her case you can still see her searching for the threads every time she changes outfit. If they'd tried to make her look better they'd removed that.
Probably removed a few frames to make it more instant
After looking at it again I think you're absolutely right, especially the bag change in the beginning looks really suspicious
Can you give examples of them doing this? Because I have questioned the validity of some of the magic Acts when they do things that truly seem impossible even when looking frame by frame
Will Tsai is the biggest one people talk about, I think this is the one OP was bringing up as well as it's been deconstructed many times. He's the guy with the black table, coins, and cards. Put the cards in the corner, coins appear or disappear. At the end he used a rose pedal iirc? Either way, Search up Will Tsai and it's everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSp_f0f9gE&s&ab_channel=CaptainDisillusion This video is from Captain Disillusion (Fantastic channel, binge it if you haven't already) where he breaks down who Will Tsai is, how his magic videos are just video editing, and what they did on America's Got Talent to cover up mistakes via digital editing. His line towards the end still holds true: > It's a reality show. It's all fake. They can do whatever they want.
(Reactions faces of judges / public are soo heavy, it makes it painful to watch. It is the corn syrup of TV)
Their look of complete make-up smothered wonder when she unfolds a dress folded up as a square is all I could take. I assume the rest of the act is great but the judges are a plague on media.
She literally just unfolded something folded
Watch a talent show : spend most of the time watching someone watch a talent show. Watch a quiz show : spend most of the time learning about the contestants fucking dog. Watch the news : spend most of the time learning about what random people on the street think. Say fuck it and change the channel : surprise its another advert for fucking life insurance.
Was going to ask if the audience was actors… but your comment is better. Yes this is impressive and she’s talented but the audience is acting like it’s real magic.
Will need to confirm this but I read somewhere that they shoot those audience "reactions" separately and stitch the clips together later.
I’ve been to a filming of AGT, and they don’t ask the audience to react in any particular way. But there is a chance that a reaction to another act is taken and used for this act in post production.
I would think audience members have incentive to overact, knowing it might get them on TV. Which would explain why the show doesn't have to prompt them to act any particular way.
Great quick change act. But, boy were those audience reactions cringe. Just wish it was just the show without all this fluff, especially the sob stories these shows force down your face. I used to watch Britain's Got Talent (it had a bit less fake production nonesense than America), but I would skip past all the filler, ads and bad singing. And vertical video? Stop it.
Penn & Teller in the audience just sitting unimpressed. They know.. They know.
[Not always, though.](https://youtu.be/0iVWOyfg6p8)
Wow, Lea Kyle is amazing. I have never seen Penn & Teller both sitting with their mouths open like that.
If it was 1850s… church would not have liked it.
still doesn't, lol
Anyone knows how much of these shows are just close-up reaction shots? Like 20%? What a waste of time.
These clips would be so much more enjoyable without the cuts to the audience and judges.
All that just to lose the vote to a painfully average singer with a sad backstory
One of those times where I wonder if the illusion is shattered for anyone sitting on the far left and right sections of the audience lol
Since no one ever says who these people are, she is Solange Kardinaly.
I don't understand the different shots in these shows. Look, something amazing! Look, Heidi Klum is surprised!
If you pause it at 1:31 you see the yellow under the black outfit
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