Marching Band/Spirit Squad intro video 2015

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Here is the Marching Band/Spirit Squad's intro video for 2015!:


What do you all think?
 


AWESOME! Was this student made? I remember a similar video from the indoor concert last year that I believe was made by members of the band.
 

Nokomis said:
AWESOME! Was this student made? I remember a similar video from the indoor concert last year that I believe was made by members of the band.
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This certainly is adapted from that original video, and I believe it was worked on by UMMB Student Media (@ummbstudmedia) which is a group of students in the band working on various different media related things concerning the band. I am not part of it, but I do know a few people in it so I could get more thorough answers. They are at least in contact with whoever holds the stock footage for the band, and whoever holds the stock footage of the spirit squad, but I don't know who else they are working with/in contact with. We have a lot of talent students as far a video making goes in the band, it's really great. There have been a few really great, student made, about the band videos in the past few years. I can dig them up if people want.

tl;dr Adapted from a student made band video last year, adapted by a group of students in the band if I'm not mistaken.
 

Taji34 said:
This certainly is adapted from that original video, and I believe it was worked on by UMMB Student Media (@ummbstudmedia) which is a group of students in the band working on various different media related things concerning the band. I am not part of it, but I do know a few people in it so I could get more thorough answers. They are at least in contact with whoever holds the stock footage for the band, and whoever holds the stock footage of the spirit squad, but I don't know who else they are working with/in contact with. We have a lot of talent students as far a video making goes in the band, it's really great. There have been a few really great, student made, about the band videos in the past few years. I can dig them up if people want.

tl;dr Adapted from a student made band video last year, adapted by a group of students in the band if I'm not mistaken.
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I thought it was OK. Since our band, unlike all other Big Ten Bands, never gets to go to a Big Ten Road game, they should have included some pics or video of the band on the streets of Orlando, or in the Citrus Bowl

Oh well, same old shi......

If we were Iowa, would our band even travel to Iowa State? My guess would be no.
 


oak_street1981 said:
I thought it was OK. Since our band, unlike all other Big Ten Bands, never gets to go to a Big Ten Road game, they should have included some pics or video of the band on the streets of Orlando, or in the Citrus Bowl

Oh well, same old shi......

If we were Iowa, would our band even travel to Iowa State? My guess would be no.
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Maybe next year they'll do something like that in the. I have no idea when they started making the video, hence maybe why it was just adapted from our indoor concert video from last year rather than made from scratch? I'm not on the team who made it so I don't know. they could have had a month, the whole summer, who knows. Better than nothing though!
 

When the band starts getting the funding it deserves, maBye they can make a trip.
 


I like this former spirit team.
 




How about turning into an argument about acoustics. Half time of the TCU game, from my seats in sec 103 I doubt anyone could have played name that tune on anything that was played, not because it was obscure but because it's basically babble with the sound delay compounded by instruments facing different directions and changing direction. I wonder if they have ever considered picking up the sound in the middle and broadcasting it over the speakers so that someone not standing at midfield could actually tell what's being played.
 


LakerFan said:
How about turning into an argument about acoustics. Half time of the TCU game, from my seats in sec 103 I doubt anyone could have played name that tune on anything that was played, not because it was obscure but because it's basically babble with the sound delay compounded by instruments facing different directions and changing direction. I wonder if they have ever considered picking up the sound in the middle and broadcasting it over the speakers so that someone not standing at midfield could actually tell what's being played.
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They actually dabbled in broadcasting the sound over the speakers, the issue is, with the sound system that TCF has there is a 2-3 second delay, which screws us up playing (they did it as the Texas bowl two years ago and it was very difficult to keep tempo and hear the rest of the band) and defeats the purpose of a lot of our drill. Trust me, we do our best to try to play in every direction we can at least once during shows if it works. We also don't have people that we can station around the stadium when we practice so we can't know how the sound we make sounds everywhere.
 

Taji34 said:
We also don't have people that we can station around the stadium when we practice so we can't know how the sound we make sounds everywhere.
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Really? You play mostly in one stadium and you have no idea what the sound is like around that one place? Couldn't figure that out in a practice?

Without good sound your a dance line with shiny props. Facing different directions at the same time is part of the problem that means I hear what is facing me at one delay and what bounces off the other side of the stadium back to me at a different delay. At those distances it's several beats and not whole beats so it sounds like noise. Changing who you are facing as a group at least gives us a few bars here and there where I can hear what your playing. I like listening to band music and from times when I've been up close to you guys playing I know your a good sounding band. I'd worry about figuring out the sound issues at TCF first, taking the show on the road second.
 



LakerFan said:
Really? You play mostly in one stadium and you have no idea what the sound is like around that one place? Couldn't figure that out in a practice?

Without good sound your a dance line with shiny props. Facing different directions at the same time is part of the problem that means I hear what is facing me at one delay and what bounces off the other side of the stadium back to me at a different delay. At those distances it's several beats and not whole beats so it sounds like noise. Changing who you are facing as a group at least gives us a few bars here and there where I can hear what your playing. I like listening to band music and from times when I've been up close to you guys playing I know your a good sounding band. I'd worry about figuring out the sound issues at TCF first, taking the show on the road second.
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No, we know how it sounds, but we have no way to know how every single form sounds to every single seat, because we don't have enough staff or time to figure that out for every show and tweak it. Even if we did, the sound travels a lot differently in an empty stadium vs a filled stadium, so unless we could find 50,000 people to sit in the stadium every practice its just not going to happen.

While yes, having us all always face the same way would improve some of our issues, then we would, and have, gotten complaints like "I didn't hear the first half of that song because the whole band was facing away from me. Can't you just have half of them turn around?" Dr. Diem and the staff have been doing this for a long time, and they do their best to make sure we sound good to as many people as possible, but the fact of the matter is that it is impossible to sound perfect 100% of the time in 100% of the stadium.
 

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