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So we ended up building the show around the theme of runway models. So we evolved the show away from that character we had initially selected to being more about what the students naturally excelled at which in this case happened to be a model walk. When we began working with the students in our band and color guard, we noticed that they were really good at specific performance skills.

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For example, a year ago, we thought we were going to do build a show around an old famous movie actress. From a designer standpoint, how I view the design process, each year is extremely unique so we let whatever circumstances we find ourselves in dictate to us what the needs may be or what the show's program is going to be. The other is that we just pick good music for good music's sake and then develop a visual program that portrays the music appropriately.'Дavis continues, 'What has worked for us and what fits our character and what we like to portray can be as literal as a person or a figure in time, or a concept of a time period. 'One is that we've come up with a character-driven concept of what we want to see or what we want to portray and then we match musical ideas or motifs to further illustrate that concept. 'We've taken two drastically different approaches that have both been successful for Broken Arrow High School,' says Davis. We try to present a diverse cross-section of styles.' Marching Band Drill DesignДarrin Davis, the marching band coordinator for Broken Arrow (Okla.) High School and a drill writer with over 17 years of experience, uses two distinct methods to design a show: either building music around a theme or developing a theme around specific music. Balancing those two criteria is really one of the trickiest aspects. We try to choose show concepts that will be appealing to college football fans in the stands, but at the same time give good, practical lab experience for our music education students. A collegiate band like what we have here at the University of Arkansas will do four or five shows each season, depending on the schedule. 'We have to decide what kinds of shows are going to meet our needs. 'The concept is the first thing we have to figure out,' notes Pratchard. Performing for an audience of Division I college football fans, Jeremy Pratchard, the associate director of bands at the University of Arkansas, has a slightly different agenda when thinking about the following season's shows. So we've done shows based on R&B music the last few years, and our crowd has really gotten in to it.'

Often, bands get caught up in trying to be heady or surreal in order to appease judges, but we have decided that while we're going to do whatever we can to be musical and effective for the judges, we really want to concentrate on our home crowd. The last few years, we have focused more on our home crowd. 'In January or February, the head band director and I will sit down and share ideas, whether those are themes or specific music. Once Richter and his colleagues have come up with a few ideas, they solidify their planning.

Really, it's not until about January that we start getting serious about moving forward in a particular direction as far as what we're going to do the following year.' At that point, we can start putting those thoughts together with the musical ideas that we've got rolling around in our heads. Right after marching season ends, we get together and talk about what we liked from that year's show, how various things we did affected the audience or the judges, and come up for goals of what we want to do the following year. For next year's marching season, we already started listening last fall. 'We sit down as a staff and start listening to different music that we like. 'The first step of designing a show isn't even a formal step,' he explains. SBO recently caught up with three experienced and successful drill writers who shed some light on the process when putting together a field show, from conceptualization to the finished product.Д¬harles 'Chip' Richter, a freelance drill designer and associate band director at Alief Taylor High School in Houston, Texas, begins by brainstorming music. The coordinated combination of music pageantry should be designed to create a unified presentation of a musical, visual, conceptual, or abstract theme.Д®very band director and his or her staff will have a slightly different process when it comes to building a show, but the basic steps of planning and design, implementation, and execution remain fairly constant. Whether for the halftime show of a high school football game or for panel of judges at a national competition, a marching band field show combines several critical elements to entertain, inspire, and engage audiences.

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