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The Kingsmen Senior Drum and Bugle Corps will be holding an Open House this Sunday at 1 PM at the Norwalk Mariott. See the address below. Info is here: http://xKingsmen.com/Forms/KingsmenUniversity.pdf FAQ is here: http://xKingsmen.com/Forms/SeniorCorpsFAQ.pdf 2009 Season Open House: 1pm-4pm December 14, 2008 Norwalk Marriott 13111 Sycamore Drive Norwalk, CA 90650 Get more information at: xkingsmen.com/kingsmenseniorcorps -OR- Contact Corps Director Peter Baird at srcdirector@kingsmenstarcorps.org Or call 661 290-2893 and leave message Spectemur Agendo!

How about 3D Stereoscopic in 4K with the new Red Camera? http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/8503.html It could definitely happen.

It's a worthwhile youth activity.

Member's Only? How apropos!

Not to be a party pooper, but: You can't just rip a DVD and make your own out of the best bits. It's called copyright infringement if you don't have official permission to use existing footage that is owned by someone else: DCI. You might try contacting them and see what is best.

I was 44 when I did the K'men and almost passed out after the first show. Doin' drum corps ain't easy, even for us "young bucks". All the best to Star and what they intend to accomplish.

You could contact the 1979 Sacramento Freelancers and have a tongue biting fest. As for Shirley giving the homer one up, I never heard that. I just knew her as a judge-no more, no less. As to the marching problems at Finals. I'll have to go back and look at the DVD. It was said that at the time: BD, SCV and Phantom had the best M&M. You guys were 1 and 2 in prelims. Did Shirley judge that show? Butchered horns? Probably got the hose down before Finals. Nothing new. The way I look at it, it was a tight race at DCI in '78. It looks like the scores reflect a virtual deadlock between SCV, Phantom and BD with Madison close behind. It could've been anyone's baby. No? I think that SCV won that year as they usually do: win drums, marching and GE, while trying to stay competetive in horns. I love the '78 SCV corps as I marched with a lot of them. I'm also glad to know you RM. I competed against you in junior corps and marched with you at the KAC. I can't say that of too many people!

'78 SCV

'79 SCV Jeff Raggio

Hopefully, though, they'll march. K'men did 72 pages of drill. That will be hard to top!

I know Kathy Garver or "Sissy". She does voice over work in the SF Bay Area. Then now

Do you have a Mac or a PC? If a Mac, I can give you advice. PC...sorry, no. Good video editing software for PC? Try Vegas. Not sure what to suggest for DVD authoring. For a Mac, and being a newbie, try Final Cut Express and iDVD. BTW, I wrote a book about Final Cut so if you are using that software, I can get you there. Final Cut Studio is $1200 though, and you need a Mac.

...aaaaaand fade to black.

Eh, waddya gonna do!

It's too bad, because there are good casting directors and loads of good actors in the SF Bay Area. You can get a great rate from SAG for pro actors, only $150/day. I don't know if this is the case, but in the Bay Area you do find a certain breed of filmmaker that somehow has money (from trust funds?), an idea for a film, but no chops or discipline to get the job done. In my own workflow, I don't roll camera until my actors are well rehearsed and entirely believable. Obviously, this didn't happen here. You can apply a lot of the rules about directing a film to marching in a drum corps show. They both take time, discipline, repetition, and talent to create a good product.

Correct Michael. Digitally acquired picture is now the norm for all indie features, cable and even network television. Film will be around for some time to come, but digital picture is rivaling the image quality due to rapidly advancing technology in the science of compression and in video hardware, particularly CMOS imaging chips and new forms of digital projection. I just saw the post workflow for the program, "Weeds" (awesome show by the way), and they use the Sony F900 to shoot it. The F900 is the top of the line Sony HD camera. These HD cameras can acquire an extremely high quality picture and can shoot at 24 frames per second--the frame rate of actual film. If "Weeds" doesn't look like film, you tell me! A few years ago, the owner of Oakley Sunglasses, Jim Jannard founded "RED". Jim hired the smartest engineers in the business and have come out with the RED camera. The RED will shoot up to a 4K image, which is a HUGE format with exceedingly high quality. Many Hollywood features are beginning to shoot with RED as we speak. The cool thing about RED is that it is only around $50,000 for a fully outfitted rig, way cheaper than an F900 setup. The reason why HD has caught up with film is that the technology related to digital image projection has improved vastly. This projection quality is equal to or better than a projected print of celluloid film. Yes, we are in a new era of filmmaking.

Mick Freeman is one of the finest DP's in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have worked with him as a grip (lighting technician) many times in the 90's (on features, docs and corporate video) and can vouch for his talent. He's been around since the 60's and knows very well what he is doing. He taught me everything I know, and I went on to do grip and electrical work for Hollywood features. As an aside, I was injured on a Robin Williams feature and went back into editing, motion graphics and general post-production. I'm sure the lighting will look fine in the feature, it's the acting I'm not so sure about. Pretty wooden. The editing in the trailer is also sub-par. There's not much a DP can do when the actors are not prepared and the editing is not crisp. I just contacted Mick, so I hope to hear from my old friend. I'll let you know what he says about the production.

Thanks a lot my man! BTW, we are gearing up for the '09 season: Sr. Corps, Winter Drumline and Winter Guard. Join us on Facebook to keep track of all the details. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=636...07&ref=name

I don't agree, but I see your point. SCV was not known as having a powerful hornline like that of BD, Phantom or Spirit in those days. SCV's strengths were being solid and innovative with GE, drums, and M&M. However, they tied for 3rd in horns which is not horrible and probably kept them in the hunt with BD and Phantom for 1st. Snares featured performing "Hopak", which was SCV's concert in 1978 Personally, I think this is one of the greatest drum corps shows in DCI history. The Khachaturian tunes were awesome, so far ahead of their time musically. Overture to a New Era is probably one of the top off the lines of all time, and was played powerfully--those baritones were barking baby! The color guard also did unique things by putting up a maypole and then dancing around it, using hula hoops instead of rifles and putting the entire guard up for the Bottle Dance. Magic! The drumline led by Rob Carson at center snare '78 was one of the finest in SCV history, taking high drums. 1978 was a highly competitive year for a lot of drum corps and SCV fought hard for that title. I watched the '78 A Corps rehearse quite a lot in the lot at the Bingo Hall and they thoroughly impressed me. I was a 15 year old P/R Baritone player in the B corps at the time. The music and pageantry of '78 SCV was so complex and interesting for its era, I think all drum corps fans can find something cool in that show.

Looks like your little field of dreams. Congrats!

Speaks for itself.

Repeating as DCI Champs.

Didn't rifles also wear their stars in the middle of the uniform rather than on the chest? I know that Bass and Marching Tymps did that.

Solved! It's not either Cox nor Hampton. It is Alan Kristensen and Stoltzman and it is '76. I'll ask Dale Lofgren who the other guys are.

'77 SCV Indeed that is Darryl Cox, but that is not Rob Carson, it is Richard Stoltzman ('76, '77, '79). On the other side of Darryl is Gabe Hampton ('77-'79), so this cannot be '76. It is most definitely '77.