And our 2011 show theme is…
COLOR!
Man, it feels good to let that out! I’ve been waiting for over 2 months to blab, but had to wait until the director made an official announcement.
If you know me, you know I LOVE color. And though I’m partial to black and bold color combinations, I can very much appreciate ANY color scheme. Designing this show could be either a blessing or a curse depending on how I approach it: Pigeon-holed into using particular colors OR easier because my color options are somewhat limited. Though I think it’ll be a combination of the two because of one color:
GREEN
Green is one of my favorites, but is really hard to pull off on a football field. Needless to say I was a little disappointed when the director chose to do green over great field colors like yellow or orange. I personally feel that there should be contrast among colors of flags, uniforms, venue, etc. and it’s tough to do that with green. So I anticipate a challenge.
The other colors (in no particular order) are:
BLUE, RED, & RAINBOW!
One thing I’m really looking forward to is incorporating the rainbow in several ways. I’m not someone who likes literal show flags (flowers for a spring song, clock for time theme) but sometimes you’ve got to go with it. This is one of those rare times for me. Here’s a look at a few ways I plan on presenting the rainbow:
- One flag with several rainbow colors
- Several solid color flags
- Oversized solid color lamé flags for big impact
How would you go about choosing equipment for a color theme?
Green is my favorite color but, I understand your frustrations for a field show. You don’t want to blend into the grass on the field. Band Shoppe has some nice flags in green and black to add the contrast or in lighter/brighter versions of green. They have a lovely in stock budget flag in spring green with Kelly lame that would stand out. http://www.bandshoppe.com/catalog/productDetail.do?p=In_Stock_Flags_FLS0532. Also in the custom section they have http://www.bandshoppe.com/catalog/productDetail.do?p=Custom_Show_Flags_FL2046. I would stick with brighter and shiny colors like spring green, apple, dark mint, mint and neon lime in poly china silk or celery and lime in lame. You could always pick or design your own custom flag with a bright/shiny background like silver tissue lame or prism fire and the design in various shades of green. Or even use green sparkle tape on rifles or sabres.
As far as the rainbow goes I like the idea of giant solid color lame flags. You could always do a rainbow flag for part of the song and switch to the big flags to end with impact.
Good luck, can’t wait to see what you choose!
I actually have the second flag bookmarked as a possibility! Great minds must think alike
I will do a post with photos once I choose all the flags