Weber Review

The Weber Review is a Marching Band Exhibition that is judged only for the band director to hear the good and the bad of the band. It is done prior to any competitions so that the band can improve, or change things. Richard and I went to the High School and helped to load the band's semi trailer. It is amazing how much stuff it takes to put on a marching band competition. I would never have thought we would fill a whole semi trailer full of stuff, let alone add to that a 24 foot trailer with props for the color guard. We put drums, tubas, marimbas, and xylophones, drum major platforms, uniforms, little trailers and 4 wheelers to get it all onto the field in this semi trailer. It is quite a production to get it all loaded, and takes lots of band Dads and Moms to do it.
We load it all at the High School, then get in to our cars and drive to Weber State College where we unload it in time for the band to pull up in their 5 buses, then after the show we load it all up again and drive home to unload it all again. It makes for a long night. Tonight, once the trailer was unloaded I headed into the stadium to watch some of the other bands perform. I really enjoy watching all of the bands whether they have 40 band members or 250 band members, they all have a show to watch.

I found a place to sit - up high in the stadium so that I could film the show.


A 5 year old girl came and sat next to me and asked if she could take pictures, I handed her my little digital camera and told her to put the strap around her wrist, showed her where to push the button and she proceded to take 0ver 100 pictures, before her Dad took her home. She talked up storm and the two of us had lots of fun taking pictures.

Over the summer I got a new Digital Camera with an extra lens and a digital video camera. I still have lots to learn about both camera's, but I had a good time using them tonight. The video camera pictures were really fuzzy, but I have since learned how to improve that.

Here a few pictures from the evening.


Richard is in the black jacket near the bottom center of the picture.




Rachael is the one in the back of the row with 7 girls.





As I said earlier - this was my first video using the new digital videocamera. I have lots to learn, but here is the show, fuzzy and all.