Name: Inside Zach King's Illusion Prop Studio | Vanity Fair
Uploaded: 2020-10-25T18:16:07.000Z
Duration: 11 min 6 s
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And over the years, I've gotten to amass fun collection

of props that I've used in my magic videos.

So I'll take you in the studio, show you around.

So this is my office and this is where I not only work,

throughout my childhood and little things that have

inspired me, as well as memorabilia from my videos.

It's a Vine video where I grab it and take the Eiffel tower.

The fun part about working with miniatures to me

It's something you can grab, you can play with,

but it also means you have to get it 100% perfect.

So that means your distance from this to the camera,

but also the item in the background has to be perfect.

So you're lining up these three different elements

and it's fun, but it takes a ton of time to get it perfect.

you gotta fly back to France and re-shoot.

One of my favorite videos that I've done on TikTok

was based on one of my favorite books growing up,

Of course, everyone wants to be able to fly on a broomstick.

with a mirror and the broomstick and pants glued to it,

You know, there's always challenges when we're filming.

The hardest one on that video is we were riding

dance between the cameraman and myself in the videos

is always an intense choreography, and that one especially,

and I have to control that as well as hold this rig

of the mirror and the broomstick and the pants,

which is actually rather heavy, with one hand.

It's fun though, when you get that choreography down,

it feels like you just had an amazing dance,

and you know, the video turned out awesome, I love it.

I also love exploring ideas that kind of bend reality.

And a good example of that is this chair,

But if I sit down, it's not quite a regular chair,

it's actually what we call an illusion chair.

So it's based on the perspective of where the camera is.

a bunch of curved cut wood perfectly to line up

So there's a lot of meticulous work that goes up front

in designing these illusions, from sketches, design,

When you're talking about making a piece of furniture

or a set, you actually have to just line up the camera,

and have it there during the entire construction process.

line up the camera right, you have to redo it.

So this next room that we're gonna be going to is

where we store our medium to large props.

Now, we store the extra small props in a special other room,

So what you see in here is pretty much all the props

I've used over the years ranging from snack items,

I was thinking about the name of the Wright brothers,

you know, who were some of the first inventors of flight.

And I was like, wouldn't be funny if there was like,

like what was his invention have been like,

and he would take a miniature, wind it up, throw it.

And then the plane would circle back and it'd become real.

So I got this prop online the night before we had the shoot.

It arrived and I thought it came assembled,

But no, I had to build this, it actually took me hours.

And look, there's even a complicated rubber band system

But you know, that actually happens a lot.