It was great to see Rudy Lecture, and even though there were some technical problems with getting sound working on his video at the start, really, no one was worried, People came to see Rudy Lecture, and sound or no sound it was great to have him back. After a huge boom from the sound engineers, everyone was definitely awake and Rudy started to talk about his magic and how his act was created.

Rudy said that ‘If you have a three minute act, you can travel the world’, and all of his magic is created in three minute segments, and what’s required for those three minutes ? Characters and Presentation.

He also talked about his ‘creative room’, which he tries to fill with things that inspire him, not just magic, but anything that influences or inspires you, be they comic books, music, paintings.

He used a number of videos to show what he was trying to put across which worked well. Rudy also talked about prototyping effects, and specifically creating body parts using nothing more than cling film and sellotape - Look up ‘Tape Sculpture’ on the internet if you want to find out how to do this in more detail.

It was obvious that Rudy had a huge amount of ideas and thoughts in his head that he wanted to impart to the audience, on costume changes, building your character, your effects, and just to create your act.

‘Magic Dave’ made an appearance, much to the delight of the audience.. and our favorite quote from Rudy had to be.. ‘Cardboard is the way to go…’

A very entertaining lecture from one of magics most entertaining characters.