That's It! I can't stand it anymore!

[Fish]

Attention anyone who has in the past or plans in the future to video any corps.

If you're plan is to put it on YouTube please video it as best as you can.

1. Sit as high as possible even if you have to show up earlier. Don't sit where people may be walking in front of you.

2. Whether up high or in the middle, please no panning in and out. It's usually too fast and you may end up missing a drill move. (No need to show the BC snares sliding down the ramp in a close up.) With encores a wide shot is all that's needed.

3. Remind yourself and others around you to shut up!

4. 7 P's.

5. Practice.

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to film a corps in any setting, but please take your time while filming so when you play it back yourself you'll be proud of what you did.

I laughed at your post! Interesting that several people who have responded to chastise you are the same who post periscope links during live shows.

Isn't that sort of a no-no as well?

[garfield]

DCI's got this all wrong. Let people film shows and post them on YouTube. Whoever posts the best video with the highest amount of views gets free tickets to Finals next year and an internship with Tom Blair.

Of course, you can't film a show unless you buy tickets to that show, so.....

Hey, if you can't beat them, join them.

Edit: DCI should also get a portion of any and all ad revenue that posters receive. If you combined all videos from drum corps in a single season into one account, that would surely equate to the number of views necessary to induce YouTube ad money, right? I think the number's at 1 million views, but I could be way off base on that too.

I suspect they'd spend all the ad revenue - plus more - on obtaining rights for their fans to post videos.

[chaddyt]

6. Ask a friend to film from the 30 yard line so we can have multi cam on youtube...

7. Open up that aperture to get some dramatic depth-of-field.