Forevergreen Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I would have double backed that banner at the beginning, so as you see the back of it, as it is placed down- there is some sort of color---flames- red orange, yellow-----yup arm chair artistic director here lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runner235 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Agree with everyone so far. The closer fell flat too chaotic and missing the oomph you get in the actual symphony when they hit that chorus. Drill was a bit chaotic and distracting from that angle as all you saw was bodies basically sprinting in the brass line. However: 1) loved the front half 2) the ballad was crazy spooky 3) guard work = nice 4) I really like how they've staged it with the brass and the guard Final thought: uniforms are cool but at that angle, I couldn't focus on the actual drill that well due to the whipping of the really white rifles and sabres by the guard. Hopefully a higher cam under the stadium lights will work better but for the front half, it felt kinda of psychedelic with the twirly white things :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Hmmm. Not really what I was expecting. Very Texas BOA 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btown50 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 The show sort of reminds me of SCV 2011 The Devils Staircase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Hmmm. Not really what I was expecting. Very Texas BOA. Do elaborate, if you will. What do Bands of America ensembles, and those from Texas in particular, do that Crown is doing here? I've only in the past year begun to look into BoA, and there was only one Texas band in this year's Finalists. As far as I can recall Flower Mound's show, this one isn't like it. Nor do I remember the show by the one other Texas band whom I've seen from last fall, Claudia Taylor Johnson, being like Crown's. But that shows my experience is very limited, and I'd like to know more. The two BoA bands that do spring to mind, just a little, are Tarpon Springs, half of whose 2014 guard had costumes suggesting musculature, I believe, and Avon, who in some previous year I once saw on Youtube lifted an enormous banner over the band that read (copying a popular billboard), "Don't make me come down there. --God". Edited June 14, 2015 by N.E. Brigand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsband Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) It's a winning show. I've seen three of those from Crown. 2009 (when they couldn't get their feet clean), 2013, and 2015. Everything is well-planned, effects all work. Plenty of moments to enhance and layers to add. Excellence will clearly be there. And most of all --- they didn't shoot themselves in the foot design-wise (which is what has usually held them back). Oh. And I think perhaps their percussion will NOT be holding back the rest of the corps. Of course a couple other corps have something to say about winning. But when Crown nails the design, they're very difficult to out-perform at the end. Edited June 14, 2015 by corpsband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 The show sort of reminds me of SCV 2011 The Devils Staircase. Well, probably all evocations of Hell since 1320 are indebted to Dante (and he in turn to Virgil). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anstig Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 If you happen to need the show when the link gets taken down, contact me. Hit me up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 The show sort of reminds me of SCV 2011 The Devils Staircase. Funnily enough, I didn't enjoy that show musically either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Hit me up Video is still up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSu-2EugT7E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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