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INTERACTIVE creators Danny Orleans and Mike O’Donnell, along with Bakore Magic welcome
you to INTERACTIVE, a new touch of magic. We know your audiences will have fun participating
in these colorful, interactive, magical experiences.

Danny Orleans created the acronym WITCH’S CAP for the phrase “Written instructions that
control how spectators choose a prediction.” It first appeared in an article that was published in
the February 2010 issue of Genii Magazine. The article summarized the contents of a book he
authored published by Chronicle called Magic
Scratchers. The book contained 40 interactive pages in
which the spectator would scratch off a prediction after
following a set of instructions pertaining to an
illustration on the page.
Interactives in which a spectator’s choice is controlled
remotely – by written words in a book or verbal
instructions on a video or TV show, or an internet
based magic trick, have been explored and created my
many magicians. Names in mathematics and magic
associated with these creations include Royal Heath, Martin Gardner, Mel Stover, Karl Fulves,
Martin Kruskal, William Simon, Jim Steinmeyer, Arthur Benjamin, Robert Neale and of course
Max Maven. Max single-handedly brought these “Mindgames” to the public in his video and
national television appearances in the 1980s and ‘90s.
While writing Magic Scratchers, Danny Orleans discovered that the Witch’s Cap Force could be
used with dozens of objects lined up in rows
and columns. The key was using color as the
differentiator and telling the spectator to
“move to the closest red.” (or green or blue).
Soon Orleans realized that the objects could be
overlapped and arranged as a collage. This
added greatly to deception of the magic trick.
Fast forward to the pandemic and rise of virtual
magic. Orleans, in partnership with Chicago

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Magician Mike O’Donnell, began to animate the designs from Magic Scratchers and create
more designs based on the geometrical arrangements, substituting different objects such as
cars, balloons and playing cards.
Performing these INTERACTIVES in their virtual shows was an instant success and they realized
its potential for the magic community. Now INTERACTIVE is yours to perform for your friends,
family and clients.

In the Basic Package, you get 5 versions (plus 3

bonuses) of 5 different INTERACTIVE videos. The five
videos include:
a) Balloons
b) Cards
c) Cars
d) Hats
e) Pool Balls
Each video has at least four versions for you to choose from depending on how you want to use
INTERACTIVE:
a) Voiceover with music and sound effects. (VO, Music, SFX)
b) Sound effects only. (SFX Only). This allows you to add your own voice narration and
music to make a pre-recorded video.
c) Music and sound effects. (Music & SFX). This allows you to add your own voiceover to
make a pre-recorded video.
d) Animation on click with SFX only. These videos allow you to perform INTERACTIVE live.
The video begins paused so you can provide verbal instructions to your audience on
how to point to the screen. Then you click your mouse to play the shortened video. This
allows you to control the final moment of the reveal in a live in-person or virtual show.
In addition, the BASIC package includes a Welcome Video and two Explainer Videos which will
teach you how to share an INTERACTIVE video on a Zoom Call and how to add your own
narration to one of the videos if you want to prerecord your own voice. You’ll also receive five
written scripts. These will be helpful if you want to add your own voiceover to the video.

In the Pro Package, you get 10 different INTERACTIVE videos. The ten themes include:
a) Balloons
b) Cards
c) Cars
d) Hats
e) Pool Balls
f) Rotary Phones
g) Emojis
h) Light Bulbs
i) Alphabet Blocks
j) Coffee Cups
Each video has at least five versions for you to choose from depending on how you want to use
INTERACTIVE. The versions include transparencies of the videos to perform with Ecamm or OBS.
a) Voiceover with music and sound effects. (VO, Music, SFX)
b) Sound effects only. (SFX Only). This allows you to add your own voice narration and
music to make a pre-recorded video.
c) Music and sound effects. (Music & SFX). This allows you to add your own voiceover to
make a pre-recorded video.
d) Animation on click with SFX only. These videos allow you to perform INTERACTIVE live.
The video begins paused so you can provide verbal instructions to your audience on
how to point to the screen. Then
you click your mouse to play the
shortened video. This allows you
to control the final moment of
the reveal in a live in-person or
virtual show.
e) Transparent videos to perform
with Ecamm or OBS. This allows
you to be live on screen
positioned next to the collage of
images.
INTERACTIVE Pro customers are also able to completely create and customize their own videos.
Included in the package are over two dozen short explainer videos to guide you how to do this
on Keynote software that comes with the Apple computers. It’s also available for PCs. The
videos cover techniques to build your own video animation including:
a) Using the secret template
b) Arranging objects on the
template
c) Animating objects
d) Shortcuts for recoloring,
resizing, rotating and
duplicating objects
e) Working with shapes in
Keynote to create
INTERACTIVE videos
f) Tips for scripting and live
performance
g) Making a presentation transparent for use on Ecamm and OBS

There are lots of ways to use INTERACTIVE to entertain clients and promote your business.
We’re sure you’ll think of more.
1. On your website.
2. On your Vimeo or YouTube channel
3. Add it to an email blast to entertain clients
4. Use on social media posts including Tic Tok, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
5. In a live virtual magic show on Zoom
6. In a streaming virtual show on Facebook, Streamyard or another platform
7. In a prerecorded show that you sell
to clients
8. In a live, in-person show embedded
in a PowerPoint presentation.
9. In a video that plays just before you
are introduced in an in-person
presentation.
10. Predict a playing card selection.
11. Combine with another trick such as
a card trick or production of an
object such as a pool ball.
 12. Customize with a celebratory message such as “Happy Birthday Cynthia.”*
13. Customize for a corporate client, revealing their logo at the end.*
14. Customize for a corporate client using their product as the target object.*
15. Combine with another trick to produce a real object that you “grab” out of the
transparency. Extract a real pool ball or playing card from the template as it vanishes.*
16. As the video ends, you can be holding or wearing the predicted item, such as a playing
card, hat, clown nose, pool ball.*
17. Customize the message on the rotary phone to match any predicted item in a trick
performed prior to INTERACTIVE.*
18. Use INTERACTIVE as a “callback” to a visual running gag in your show.
19. Reveal your own logo after the magical revelation.*
20. Perform using Ecamm or OBS.
*PRO INTERACTIVE ONLY

As part of the download, we have supplied a file with scripts. These will assist you if you wish to
record your own voice as part of an INTERACTIVE video. Here are some themes that you can
use while scripting your introduction to an INTERACTIVE video.
a) Anticipating the needs of a customer
b) Free will
c) Power of suggestion
d) Influence
e) Controlling decision-making
f) The illusion of choice
g) Coincidence
h) People are very much like each other
i) Journey vs. Destination
j) It’s my lucky day
k) Predicting human behavior
If you’ve purchased the BASIC Version, pick a theme (Balloons, Cards, Cars, Hats or Pool balls).
Download and watch each of the five videos labeled “(VO, Music, SFX)mp4.” You’ll be able to
upload them to social media, website, or your YouTube channel immediately.
If you want to use your own voice for the instructions, download the “SFX only” video. Using
basic editing software such as QuickTime, iMovie on a Mac or Video Editor on a PC, you can add
your own voiceover into the video. Also, check out www.kapwing.com, a free webtool that
allows you to upload a small video file and audio file and combine them. Just make sure your
timing is right with the final reveal.
If you’ve purchased the PRO Version, you’re in for a treat. You’ll be able to customize your
video in many ways. Watch the short Explainer Videos in your download to learn about the
secret template you can use to make your own INTERACTIVE with almost any image. View the
videos in order to master different skills including animation, grabbing images from the
internet, recoloring your images using a simple web tool, arranging images on the screen to be
sure the force works and more. Most importantly, be sure to watch Mike O’Donnell’s
explanation of the Magic Move, a keynote animation tool that make your final moments
delightfully visual.

FOR INTERACTIVE PRO CUSTOMERS ONLY, we invite you to join the Facebook Group where a
discussion group led by Danny Orleans and Mike O'Donnell in ongoing. This is a
private group for magicians who've purchased INTERACTIVE PRO through
bakoremagic.com. We're here to share ideas and help each other with the
technology challenges of creating your own INTERACTIVE videos to use on
social media, websites and for clients. Click here to apply: