The Cavaliers Camera Calls - Neatorama

This video is of a marching band drum and bugle corps performance, but that's not what it's really about. It's a look into the job of camera calling featuring producer Tim Blair, taken at the 2004 DCI (Drum Corps International) World Championship. I briefly worked as a TV switcher many years ago, and marveled at how the news director managed to herd cats get a live newscast on air every day. How much more difficult is it to direct cameras for a live event in which you're not controlling the action? Listen and see! -via Viral Viral Videos

Interesting fact: The Cavaliers are one of only two drum corps left on the planet that is all male.

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The Cavaliers are not a marching band, they are a drum and bugle core. Marching band includes woodwinds while drum and bugle core is only percussion and brass.

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Corps... Not core.

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Okay, fixed. I mistakenly thought that a group of people who marched and played music was a marching band.

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It is a fine line. I usually don't mention the difference.

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Being doing some multicamera productions lately, it's some times real hectic..

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hypnotic, seriously.

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A drum corps does march, but it is not a "marching band". It will play in parades, but its primary function is to perform at incredibly well-choreographed drum corps shows.

Filing live tv events is an art form, but the playing field is really just a large stage for their performance.

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Here is another drum corps camera call, this time the 2007 Carolina Crown's performance of "Triple Crown".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F81pdKpV38

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