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  1. MikeRapp
    Not that I needed this show to prove it, but ####, the BD360 productions are stunning.
  2. MikeRapp
    Well, Bluecoats and Cadets would have been compelling because they faced each other head to head so many times. Despite trying, they haven't proven any "clash" whatsoever between cadets and BD.
  3. MikeRapp
    Yep, that's what I anticipated. Kids who are interested in drum corps are far more interested in BD360-type of videos that shows you a lot more "true" behind the scenes production footage...and real music performance. Again, not entirely sure who Fuse felt the market was for the show.
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    Now that I've seen the first three episodes, I question whether there is enough sizzle around the daily drama of the kids to fuel (no pun intended) a drum corps reality series. Maybe the next episode will start building some tension, but right now I don't really feel like I'm learning much from one episode to the next. What am I going to miss if I don't watch the next episode? Really don't have any clue. It may just be me, but I think there's a lot more angst if you show both sides of a show — design and performance, adults and kids. I want to see Scott and his team struggle with design, and the marching members struggle with implementation. To me that's interesting. When you call a show Clash of the Corps, and the two corps don't even compete directly against each other for the vast majority of the season, it just seems like much ado about not a lot.
  5. MikeRapp
    Eh, it opens another aspect of DCI that most viewers just don't care about. I was just glad they mentioned them. I had forgotten that scouts finished second in Pasadena. Wow, the season really went in the opposite direction for them.
  6. MikeRapp
    I suspect the shows will get better every show, but the pilot wasn't exactly click bait.
  7. MikeRapp
    I tend to think they don't want to open a DCI can of worms for those viewers who don't know anything about drum corps. They clearly want to keep the story line as a clash of TWO SPECIFIC corps.
  8. MikeRapp
    Does it seem as though they are specifically avoiding revealing where corps members previously marched? Seems odd to me that every time a member starts talking about how they are "now" marching for Cadets or BD, you never hear where they previously marched. Why would that be?
  9. MikeRapp
    It's disappointing to us, but the fact is, the show's reason for being is not to show cause and effect for these two corps. It's to show the day to day life of a marching member, that includes live performance. What discourages me is there has been no advertising whatsoever by DCI in the show. How in the world can that be a good marketing decision? Personally, I am hoping we see more behind the scenes meetings and discussions about show design. But since neither Scott nor George have been chosen as character studies, that's not likely to happen.
  10. MikeRapp
    I would also guess the younger a corps' average age, the more local/regional their membership is. IOW, college kids approaching age out are far less likely to care about distance versus marching with a compeititve corps.
  11. MikeRapp
    So I watched episode three... They showed BD winning th Rose Bowl competition, and even showed where the other corps finished. Was the Cadets show in this episode their last closed show with no scoring?
  12. MikeRapp
    No doubt they are going to keep focusing on the same kids later in the show, and we haven't even scratched the surface of the redesigns that Cadets went through. If anything we are really going to see what it was like this season.
  13. MikeRapp
    Maybe they are going to do a medieval show. Look at the billboard over their right shoulder. Something Rotten was written by a friend of mine and is one of the best shows I have ever seen!
  14. MikeRapp
    http://youtu.be/cqXdJHvUrw8
  15. MikeRapp
    The marchers moved down, side to side, and up. Thus the name Down Side Up.
  16. MikeRapp
    I agree with you, but I suspect it has more to do with the crew getting their feet wet with shooting drum corps. It looks less like the intended style, and more like trying to piece together a whole lot of disparate moments.
  17. MikeRapp
    Again, I thInk we should remember that this is thei first go around with drum corps. It is a very unique idiom. I would not be surprised if they are reading these critiques and agreeing with all of them. Until you have a context to what is going on in the big picture, it has to be very difficult to get it right when filming. It is pretty interesting that they already picked up on the confusion around Awakening (interesting that they never mentioned the original title...).
  18. MikeRapp
    The words Down Side Up were chosen to reflect the very idea of the show concept: They were using all three of the X, Y and Z axis to create the show concept and design—which fundamentally included the ramps to move marching members "up" and "down" throughout the show. I don't know how you could get more literal than that.
  19. MikeRapp
    For the past three years, Bluecoats is the only corps making additional, non-live-music-playing audio a central part of the very design of the show. We're not talking about amplification, or samples, or pads. We're talking about additional audio that is at times louder than the marching members, and at other times exclusive to audio engineering. I am a huge BC fan. Their last three shows are among my all time favorites. It's not about whether anyone likes them, it's about whether DCI is willing to score things done by non-marching members as a part of GE. What separates this from the other corps staff is that the audio staff are on the field, and often contributing exclusive audio content to the live event itself. How would this be different than contributions made by the pit? Technically, no pun intended, digital music recordings in fact identical in tonal quality to those performed live. Maybe the way to go is to add another seat on the bus for an audio person who is a marching member.
  20. MikeRapp
    Eh, I don't see this as a huge issue. Each corps has over 150 kids to choose from. Plus, remember that many of these kids change corps from one year to the next. It would be pretty interesting to see someone march at Cadets this year, and Crown next year. I will say that, if the show continues, having to work around showing little to no performance would be a deal killer for me were I the producers.
  21. MikeRapp
    I'm not sure I understand this at all, down side up was a literal explanation of the concept itself.
  22. MikeRapp
    The inability to use actual shows with actual music is disappointing, but understandable. If the show continues, they are going to have to overcome this issue.
  23. MikeRapp
    They probably have better equipment and more experience than the First Team crew!
  24. MikeRapp
    No one is getting ahead of anything. Just discussing the potential ramifications.I know there have been complains behind the scenes by other corps about Bluecoats' use of adults on the field to run electronics...and obviously, designing them. While adults are heavily involved in show design for all corps, even a marching member directs the live performance. The thing that makes this a new discussion is that Bluecoats have gone way beyond simple amplification and made sound a part of the show performance itself.
  25. MikeRapp
    There is no question that Bluecoats' use of electronics is a huge part of their GE scores, and obviously electronics are not being managed in any way (as I understand it) by marching members. I don't know how fair it is to reward a corps for actual live show content "performed" by additional staffers, on the field, apart from marching members.
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