This pool party will be the setting for a trick of biblical proportions. The
magician has something in mind to impress the ladies.
So he's surprising the partygoers with an illusion that certain street
magicians have used to deceive millions of fans. Tricking them into thinking they
have powers from beyond this world.
He commands us to take a good look at the swimming pool filled of course with
water and innocent spectators.
Watch. The magician summons his magical powers.
Steps to the edge of the pool
and down into the water. He doesn't sink! Instead he is walking on water.
I told you this was biblical.
While surrounded by spectators the magician is walking across the surface
of the water.
Remember there are no camera tricks and that is really the magician marching
across the pool.
From this angle we can see as his feet are treading on top of the water
a spectator swims underneath them. This is truly a modern day miracle.
The girl swims back under as he continues to walk straight across the
water.
The surrounding spectators are in disbelief.
He's halfway across and still walking. There is no credible explanation for how
this is being accomplished.
It must be through his powers of intense concentration and belief in the
impossible.
He's almost there.
He's made it! The masked magician has demonstrated the most amazing feat of
all! Walking on water!
We just saw the masked magician attempt a feat that has been written about for
more than 2,000 years, walking on water. And he did it in a pool surrounded by
spectators and his beautiful assistants.
So how did the magician create the illusion of walking on water?
The secret lies within this industrial grade clear plexiglass. The plexi is
mounted on clear plexiglass legs when it is submerged in the water and photograph
from the correct angles the Plexiglas is invisible and impossible to detect but
as the camera angle changes the Plexiglas becomes visible. The next
secret is that the assistants and innocent spectators in the pool have
been paid to act like they can't see the Plexiglas platforms.
The platforms and disillusion have been constructed in various sized planks and
are supported by the clear legs that reach the bottom of the pool.
The platforms are long and narrow and are best seen from low angles. The
platforms are hard to see from the sides so the camera angles are carefully
chosen and plotted out to make the trick believable.
One of the platform's is built extra wide and used for the camera angles
looking straight down into the pool.
It's wide so that the edges of the plank, which are hardest to disguise are always
just outside of camera range. Here it is again from a wider angle where you can
see the edges. Now they're raised slightly above the surface
so you can see the gaps in between that the magician simply steps across the
gaps giving room for the paid spectators to swim in between disguising the
submerged plexiglass legs and drawing attention away from the edges of the
planks.
They further convince the audience that there is nothing suspicious in the water
notice how the assistants and spectators are splashing and making waves?
The moving water also helps to draw attention away from the deception. When
the water in the pool is moving,
it's much more difficult to see the platforms.
Walking on water. Not so miraculous when you know the secrets.