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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:17 pm
one year our band did "clocks" and we had like a 10' tall clock made out of like plywood and duck tape and they would wheel it out in the middle of the feild and i would like almost break
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:45 pm
we had these ridiculus 12 ft tall "gates". they looked more like huge orange staples sticking out of the ground. the band had to roll them out on the feild before every show and roll them back out after. i always imagined one of them falling over and creating this huge domino effect that ended with out BD being crushed. but instead, i got my toe run over twice, my legs cut multiple times, and a skinned knee. i didn't even have to roll them on and off because i'm in pit. nope, all those injuries were from my friends trying to chase me around while they rolled it around. God i hate those things!!! mad
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:33 am
My freshman year, we had three black-and-white checkered walls that the guard used to change costumes in. During our first competition of the season, they each got individually blown down before all of them getting blown down...and this was right BEFORE we got on the field. We had to wait on the sideline for almost 10 minutes at attention because of that...it was crazy. It was after that show when I became of the people in charge of getting one of those off of the field on my own...
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:00 pm
I'm not in color gaurd but I'm almost positive they are using stools in this years show
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:50 am
One year, the band I work with had paintings on canvas of wardrobe doors (Narnia show) but the band had enough parent volunteers that the band didn't have to do the assembly (But I did work on making them, which was a lot of work). They really added to the show though, they weren't just backdrops. Another year, the band had a giant flag (about 40 yards square) that the guard ran over the top of the band.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:39 am
I'm not sure what this year's props are, but the props from years before this have been relatively simple, and don't look like they got in the way (I'm a freshman this year, so it's mainly speculation). Last year they had these columns painted to look like they were made of stone (I think they kept colorguard stuff in them, and people hid behind them before the show started), and the year before was a giant stage that they changed behind.
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:34 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:48 pm
My drumline stoppe dusing props, 'cause one time, cymbal kid tripped over one of them and ran into a bass drum, which made the rest of them fall over. I thought it was pretty funny, they were like dominoes. But my director begged to differ. LOL xd
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:05 pm
Last year at my old school, we did Dreamgirls. We had three huge backdrops that had something to do with Dreamgirls. I was a band-aid so I had to lug them from the band hall to the trailor, on the field, etc. They were taller than the band room doors, so we had to pick them up and turn them to get them out. I still have a scar from where one of them cut me. Any way, at the State Marching Contest, we were taking one of them off the trailor and it broke. So we had to figure out where on the field to put the two remaining ones. We put them in the wrong place, so as the band was marching onto the field, the band aids and the assisstant director were trying to get them in the right place. As we took them off the trailor when we got home, another one broke. I really hated those things.
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:20 pm
My school is real poor, so for last years show we just made random squares of color to go out on the field. It was real odd, because our show was tittled 'polarity' but The props had nothing to do with it.
So basically we had a bunch of rainbows on our field.
And we had our alternates hide behind them ^_^ lol.
So the uselessness was hidden. (sorry for any alternates out their)
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:29 am
My freshman year we had...probably about 20 wooden fences that were 4ft tall and about 5ft long. They weren't that bad to transport but the guard had to drag them all over the field throughout the show, it was called Trapped, Untrapped. Besides them slowing us down a bit they were also just lite enough to fall right over when the wind blew rolleyes
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:35 pm
last year we had huge mirrors. they were a little tall as us, and were about 3 or 4 feet wide. we all hated them cuz they were just really hard to move, ect. they weren't just a backdrop, we moved them around the field as part of the show. but there were some really huge ones that were just backdrops, and nobody went near those. but it was sorta cool that sometimes the reflections would make it look like we had more colorguard. and at one part we were supposed to look into the mirrors while we did swingflag work, which was nice to be able to not be looking straight up for a change. and one time we were moving them off the field, and this couple asks us if we want help, and one of us is about to say no thank you, when one of our colorguard instructors starts yelling at us like "ur not celebrities! get the mirrors over to the truck yourselve! who do you think you are? blah blah blah evil . the couple was like "uhhhhhh"
i heard this year we're getting fake violins or something, to match the orchestry music, which i think sound fun and a lot less annoying.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:07 pm
The last two years we've only had backdrops. This year I we're going to have a giant ramp that people are going to jump off, which should be pretty cool if no one breaks anything.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:48 pm
We had props one year, but they were just big pieces of plywood with pianos painted on them. They were only like, four feet tall, but our BD insisted that our gaurd huddle under them to switch their flags and rifles....
...it was just bad. For everyone. Our tuba tripped over the one at a football game, and fell backwards.
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:56 pm
I HATE floors! The tarp floors. They are so annoying and a pain in the a** to walk across let alone march because it feel like you are going to trip. Then even if there is a tiny wind it gets blown all over the place and gets all bunchy. So annoying.
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