How Ventriloquism Works

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Summary: Throw your voice and learn about how the illusion of ventriloquism works in this free video on how to be a ventriloquist.

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Grace Fitzpatrick Grace Fitzpatrick has studied ventriloquism for years and is a trained improv actor. She uses the illusion of "throwing" her voice to entertain children at p... read more

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by tab_jamesy

Thank for this information Grace. This is by far the best series of videos I have found regarding the instruction of ventriloquism.

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How Ventriloquism Works

I am Grace Fitzpatrick, and I am here on behalf of expert village. I am here to talk to you about ventriloquism and throwing your voice. A lot of people think that ventriloquism is the art of throwing your voice, actually taking your voice and throwing it across the room and making it sound like your voice is coming from another part of the room, but actually this is all an illusion. The real trick to ventriloquism is that you’re not throwing your voice at all, but actually relying on the power of illusion to do your trick. What this consists of is having a puppet that you can make move, and people will look at what's moving and think that the noise you are making is coming from that. When you make a noise and move something in one area of the room, their attention is automatically going to be pointed toward the thing moving, and they will want to believe that the noise is coming from that spot. Part of the illusion in ventriloquism is that your audience is really going to believe what is going on because they want to, and that is part of the fun of it.