Chicagoland Marching Band Festival - ID# 12

Wheeling High School
Live Event Coverage Non Sports
Entry Description

Live stream of the Chicagoland Marching Band Festival.

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Recent Teacher Comments

  • 4/20 1:26 pm - im happy that I didn’t just see an overhead wide shot the whole time. There was plenty of switching angles and I appreciated the attempt to show us more. The cameras are the eyes – we see what you want us to see. When you switch, pick 2 or 3 people, not 9 to 11. I liked the trumpet solo capture. When you switch from the wide shot, the other camera was always moving. Try a static shot of a moving subject at times.
Judge 1

Positives: -The close-up of the soloist was effective, great job of following the action throughout the piece. -Showing a wide shot of the band when they had a creative formation was great.

Improvements: -Pan with purpose -- too much panning can confuse the viewer if they aren't sure what to look at. -I think the opening shot was two seconds, too quick. Hold the shot a bit longer and make sure the shot is steady before the director takes the shot.

Judge 2

Positives: The use of having a wide shot camera to see the entire performance on the field and having a zoomed in camera was nice to capture moments on in the performance that was hard to see. Audio sounded great!

Improvements: The pan movements of the zoomed in camera was a little distracting and shaky. The camera would've been better off zooming in as a static shot of groups of performers or having a slow zoom in or out to stabilize the shot and keep our attention on one thing at a time. This also goes with the directing, some of the cuts seemed to be taken without any motivation.

Judge 3

Positives: - Nice job with the variety of shots and camera live panning during the performance to show a variety of performers & instruments. - Appreciated the timing of directing in getting to a wide shot as the song was finishing up, that's a great time to be sitting there while the band is in transition to the next song.

Improvements: - Consider using some slow dissolve transitions instead of hard cutting cameras; especially when changing cameras during a song, a 10-20 frame dissolve will really help with the flow of the live music. - The xylophones were a little hot relative to the rest of the band.

Judge 4

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