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Jonathan Royle - Stunts For The Media PDF
Jonathan Royle - Stunts For The Media PDF
It is also far easier to get on TV & Radio shows in the first place
if you have just appeared in the printed media, a copy of this
recently printed article sent to the shows researchers and/or
producers by mail, fax or e-mail will often lead to a TV/Radio
follow up interview.
This increased media profile will then lead to more live show
bookings and ultimately increased performance fees which of
course is our desired aim.
With this stunt you tell the viewers or listeners at home to get a
pen, a blank sheet of paper, an ashtray and a lighter or matches
ready as later on they can take part in an experiment to prove
that there really is life after death!
You tell them that just so long as they stare at the flames and
concentrate on their loved ones name, they will receive instant
spiritual contact from their friend or family member.
That’s it really except to say that as with all stunts of this nature
it is best if you DO NOT tell the shows producer, researcher or
presenter that you will be doing it as then they cannot possibly
do anything to stop it being transmitted (assuming it’s a live
show).
Also by finding out the shows direct dial telephone number you
can instantly (from memory) give this number out to the viewers
or listeners and as a result their phone lines will be jammed.
You can guarantee that their phone lines will be jammed for a
few reasons:
01) Because you would have around a dozen of your friends and
family who are located in different areas of the Country call
up and claim to have had a spiritual experience as a result of
the experiment.
02) Because members of the public want to be on TV and the
Radio and as such will ring up claiming something has
happened when it hasn’t in the hope that this may lead to
their 15 minutes of fame.
03) A small percentage of people will allow their mind to play
tricks on them and will genuinely believe that something has
happened.
04) Consider that the show probably only has two or three
phone-lines & that from the thousands or millions of people
watching/listening if only 0.5% of them responded then that
would be hundreds of calls and the phone lines would be
jammed for hours.
The only difference being that in this case you must tell the
publication what you are going to do and in the case of Daily
newspapers state an actual time that day when they must carry
out the experiment.
For some reason making a specific time and date when everyone
reading the article should carry out the experiment makes it
seem all the more believable that something special will happen
and if they start to believe this then their mind WILL play tricks
on them and something WILL HAPPEN!
URI GELLER LIVES ON!
The idea of this stunt is to use it when you are on a show giving
a demonstration of metal bending.
As you hold the Spoon or Fork in your hand you would look
into the camera and say “I want everybody at home to really
concentrate on this Fork as then our combined energies together
will make it bend!”
Then once the Fork has visibly bent and snapped into two pieces
(explained elsewhere) you say something such as “Wow all you
wonderful people at home must have been concentrating really
hard for that to happen!”
Once again the Psychology behind this stunt as with most stunts
of this nature is that as detailed for “RETURN FROM THE
DEAD”.
You then give that envelope to the shows presenter and tell them
to look after it and not open it until next time I appear on the
show (this makes the viewers think you have already been
invited back!).
The law of averages is on your side and the fact is that lots of
the people who do reply will get the object right, certainly the
50 or so friends/family who send postcards in on your behalf
will be correct and this itself warrants a reappearance on the
show.
The way your patter is worded makes it difficult for the show
not to rebook you, as their viewers/listeners will want to know if
the object drawn by you is the same as the one they received.
And the large quantities of postcards arriving at the station over
the next few days will keep your name at the forefront of the
producer’s minds, proving by the audience’s response to the
stunt that you were popular with them!
They are told that the spot is Orange as the colour Orange is a
powerful combination of the colours Red and Yellow combined.
You further explain that you have energised the Orange spot
with your Psychic energy and that if everyone concentrates on it
for 30 seconds seeing clearly the result they wish to achieve
then it can become 100% Total Reality.
Those people who would have naturally stopped via will power
alone will later attribute their success to the fact they stared into
your eyes and this could lead to future media coverage as on air
or in the article you tell them:
“Those people who have now after looking into my eyes lost all
desire for Tobacco or Cigarettes and feel they will now continue
to be the confident, happy, calm & relaxed non smoker that they
have now become, please contact us on (their number)”
All the Cold reading techniques you’ll need to use are explained
in the Navel Reading section of this manual.
Also you will find that in the case of TV/Radio shows the callers
will be asked what area of their life it is they are calling about
and do they have any specific questions to ask the Psychic.
When neither of these things is to occur you quite simply ask the
caller “In what area of your life can I help you today?”
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE COLUMN
Dispensing spiritual advice by way of a regular newspaper or
magazine column is the easiest form of “Psychic” work there is
by far!
All the people mentioned in the column and to whom you are
apparently giving Psychic advice would have written to you via
the publication telling you exactly what their problem is and
asking for your help.
OK I know the person who sent the letter will not be fooled by
this, but the MAJORITY of people will be! Also don’t forget
that the person who wrote in will be more interested in hearing
your common-sense advice.
For columns like this you usually call yourself a Psychic Agony
Aunt/Uncle.
Imagine now telling him you are the world’s newest and by far
greatest psychic phenomenon and that your talents make Uri
Geller look stupid.
Imagine now giving him the fork to hold in his own hands as
you say “Those people who accuse Uri Geller of trickery are
probably right as why does he not make things bend in your
hands like I do?”
Imagine that as you say this the very Fork that the Journalist has
just examined starts to dramatically bend whilst held in their
own hands with you stood a good distance away.
Imagine now that he can examine the Fork once again, as can all
his colleagues at the newspaper who will all find that it is a bent
fork, which cannot be bent back into a straight position by mere
physical force alone!
Imagine the reaction this would cause from the Journalist and
his colleagues in the office, then imagine how eager they would
be to get the photographer down to take photographs of you for
inclusion in the next days edition!
This is a new magic effect, which has just been released in April
2001 and is called “BENDING FORK”
It would also be worth while asking Hank Lees for their full
catalogue and price list as they stock many other Mentalism,
Metal Bending and Psychic Miracles which could prove to be of
great use both at live stage shows and also to promote your
career!
Incidentally the “Bending Fork” set will pay for itself many
times over when you consider that not only will it generate
publicity for you as described, but also it can be used during
your live stage shows as well!
L&L PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 100,
Tahoma,
CA 96142,
USA
Tel: (530)-525-5700
Fax: (530)-525-7008
Web: www.LLPUB.com
E-mail: LLPUB@aol.com
LEE WOODSIDE
4513 N. W. 29th Street
Oklahoma City
OK 73127
USA
www.BizarreMentalism.com
These are the companies which I personally deal with and are
the ones which I would recommend to you, however others can
easily be found by visiting www.yahoo.com and then for your
search subject enter “magic dealers” and a huge list will come
up.
The top of this list will be The Magic Dealers Association Web
Page and via this site you can visit literally dozens of on line
stores selling many books, videos, gizmos, gadgets and props of
use to Psychic Entertainers like ourselves!
Imagine then putting this tape into its plastic box and sealing it
shut with sticky tape before locking it into a metal cash box,
which is then locked into a bigger metal cash box in order that
no one can tamper with the contents.
You are now able to speak to the editor and explain that you
sent the parcel and DO NOT want it opened until the exact date
you state in two weeks time as it contains a prediction of what
that newspapers headlines and main storys will be on that day.
Before leaving the newspapers offices you get the editor to sign
a contract agreeing that he will not tamper with the prediction,
will stick it in the newspapers vaults for safe keeping and will
then bring it along with him on the evening in question to the
relevant television station or live performance venue.
He then presses the play button, the tape begins to play and your
voice is heard to come from the speakers revealing not only that
days newspaper headlines and main storys but also many major
news events from the past two weeks along with the previous
two weeks winning National Lottery Numbers.
The tape is then removed from the player and given to the
newspapers editor to take away and play back as many times as
he wants and they will genuinely find that upon the tape which
was mailed too them TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE TV SHOW
(which can be proved by delivery companies records & receipts)
is your voice containing numerous CORRECT predictions of
what would happen during that 14 day period.
Don’t you think that this would get that newspaper to cover the
story?
You could also mail an audio tape prediction in the same way to
the editors of the local/regional newspaper in each of the areas
that you are to perform your live show at in the near future and
then this would lead to both pre-show and post-show publicity
in every area that you visit!
Well quite simply for the cost of between $400 to $800 you
purchase a very special yet very normal looking tape player
from a magic dealer.
Then when the blank tape is placed into the player and the play
button is pressed the Hocus-Pocus takes place.
You see the player is manufactured in such a way that when the
Play button is pressed what actually happens is that your voice
which was recorded onto the secret section of the player is
played back and is actually what the audience hear!
This means that the editor can then take the tape away with him
and whenever he plays it back will hear exactly the same as they
just did when they heard your voice coming from the secret
section.
This concrete’s the impression into their mind that you recorded
the predictions onto the tape two weeks before the predicted
events happened as it is indeed THE VERY SAME AUDIO
TAPE.
You can predict a whole seasons Football results, who will win
political elections, what the winning Lottery numbers will be
and in fact anything which the public has an interest in and
already is a newsworthy event.
Imagine then five minutes before this time calling the POLICE
and telling them a BLINDFOLDED person is driving down the
main street of the city and they should investigate.
Imagine that when you get out of the car having been stopped by
the Police, both the Police and the Media witness the following
items being removed from your head:
Then when you are released from the Police Station you contact
all the Media you invited who will have already started running
the story and tell them YOU WERE NOT driving dangerously
as you have x-ray vision and are Psychic!
Before they think you have gone stark raving mad you offer to
appear on their show to demonstrate your Psychic Powers at
which time you appear and demonstrate an equally mind
blowing stunt such as “BENDING FORK” which I mentioned
earlier.
Now be honest, don’t you think that would get you major
National publicity and help make you a household name?
SO HOWS IT DONE?
The short and simple answer is that despite the way things
appear YOU CAN SEE PERFECTLY WELL and therefore can
drive!
Yes the coins over your eyes and the dough holding them in
place are real!
The cotton wool pads are held in place with surgical tape and
indeed the blindfold genuinely is made of Cast Iron.
And as for the bag over your head, well when placed over
someone else’s head they will be unable to see anything.
The Bag Blindfold and Cast Iron blindfold are both items, which
can be purchased with full instructions from magic dealers, and
you should be able to purchase them both for less than $80-00
for the pair!
With these items instructions for using the cotton wool pads,
surgical tape, dough and coins should automatically be included.
If not you are well advised to purchase the book “Thirteen Steps
to Mentalism” by Tony Corinda which has an excellent chapter
in it on Blindfolds which will reveal all you need to know!
Incidentally this book is invaluable reading for anyone who
wishes to pursue a successful career as a Mind Reader and
Psychic Entertainer.
To ensure that a stunt such as this hits the headlines you need to
both do everything you can to ensure the media show up at the
correct time and also have a back up plan.
Well let me get that right it would set the ball rolling to a string
of TV/Radio, Newspaper and Magazine interviews and it would
then be down to you to do things of an even more impressive
nature such as “BENDING FORK” and the “Audio Tape
Headline Prediction” in order to concrete your new found
reputation as the Worlds Leading Psychic into the publics mind.
INTERNET = SUCCESS
Once your Internet site has been designed and is on line you can
then use it in many ways some examples of which are as
follows:
01) Advertise your website and its contents FREE on the 100’s
of newsgroups, message boards, free advertising sites and
special interest forums and this will help increase the traffic
(visitors) to your site. Obviously the more visitors that your
site gets the more likely it is that someone will then book
your services. Think of your site as being like your shop
window, it needs to look good and people need to know it
exists before they can buy anything from inside.
02) You can send e-mails to the numerous entertainment’s
agencies listed on sites such as www.entsweb.co.uk
informing them briefly of your UNIQUE services and
inviting them to visit your Internet site which then does the
sales pitch for you!
03) You can send e-mail style Press Releases to the TV/Radio,
Newspaper and Magazine journalists listed on sites such as
www.ukmedia.com or www.mediauk.com enticing them to
visit your site which should speak for itself as you are THE
WORLDS ONLY – Navel Psychic, Pawologist or whatever
your current publicity ploy is!
04) You can contact people with similar sites to yours, although
obviously not of direct competition and exchange links with
them. This means that in exchange for you advertising their
site on the links page of yours they will do the same on their
site and thus send web surfers to you! Visit the links page on
my site of www.hypnotorious.com and you will see what I
mean.
Alternatively take the easy option and employ the services of a
professional such as Mike Berry of Break Point Designs in
Manchester (England) to both design and promote your site.
It does not matter where you are located in the world as stuff for
inclusion on your web (such as Photos/Posters etc) can be sent
to him either via e-mail or snail mail.