“How To Winter Guard” is a monthly podcast that discusses the many aspects of creating a new Winter Guard team. This monthly podcast will discuss the various hurdles one is presented when creating a new team. Each episode will deliver tips on how to overcome challenges, what to expect at each step of the journey, and how to best plan for an upcoming season. There may be special guests along the way, but rest assured, each episode will deliver comradery for the sport and first hand experience with creating and building a great winter season.
How To Winter Guard is dedicated to preparing new instructors, schools, and teams for what may happen on the way to the gym floor. It is meant to be a realistic view so all involved can enter the season with their eyes wide open. Of course, there will still be laughter and joy for the sport as we discuss the very real obstacles and milestones that are met along the way. Winter is the best season for guard and this podcast will celebrate it in all its glory, even parts that aren’t so glorious 😉
This podcast will use clips from judges tapes, voice overs, rehearsal clips, and absolutely there will be music!
In Episode 7 we start with a voice over and a count off (5,6,7,8). As this is an episode about rehearsal space, throughout the piece there are clips from a rehearsal. You will hear counting, flags rustling and rifle catches. There is music accompanying the episode, as we are discussing guard, a sport that relies heavily on music interpretation, music is a must. At one point there is an added bonus of a clip from a judge’s tape that is full of excitement for the upcoming season, a good lead off to an episode discussing Winter Guard, I thought. This episode closes as it began, with a count off.
*Audio Credits
“Judge’s Tape” is licensed under (CC BY NC-ND 4.0)
“Rehearsal Clip 1” by Mellissa Clark is licensed under (CC BY NC-ND 4.0)
“Rehearsal Clip 2” by Mellissa Clark is licensed under (CC BY NC-ND 4.0)
“Optimistic Corporate” by Yuriy Bespalov is licensed under (CC BY 3.0)
*Photo Credits
“How to Winter Guard” by Mellissa Clark is an original work created in Canva with an original image, licensed under (CC BY-ND 2.0).
*Podcast
“How To Winter Guard-Episode 7: Rehearsal Space” by Mellissa Clark is licensed under (CC BY NC-ND 4.0)
What a great podcast idea! I too was in winter color guard so its pretty cool to know you can dedicate a whole podcast to it. The overall tone for this podcast was very even keel and informative, I thought your voice was very soothing. The background music complemented really well the informative tone you had regarding winter color guard basics. I also like how you included the 8 count sounds and the sounds of cheering in the background, I think that tied in really well. My suggestion for the future is that maybe this would be better as an visual thing more of like a Youtube video or series and not necessarily a podcast, if you continue the podcast route I would recommend talking more about color guard in general, some of the struggles you face, competition day stories etc. overall great job!
Hello Melissa, it’s great to meet you! First of all, you picked a very interesting idea for a podcast. A topic that I have no experience with. I guess that why we listen to podcasts, right? The voice portion contained lots of helpful info about the podcast in general and what to expect from future episodes. Your album art is nice, and the dark blue text on the beige background makes the text more visible to the viewer. Although podcasts are typically in an audio format, the album art is critical in drawing in potential listeners. There were times when the voice portion was a little hard to hear due to the other sounds occurring at the same time. I would maybe try to isolate one sound at a time to not confuse the listener. Overall, great job!
Hey Mellisa,
First of all, I really liked how unique the topic of your podcast is. I didn’t know anything about “winter guarding,” and it seems really cool. Your title “How to Winter Guard” clearly indicates what the podcast is about, and the image you selected complements it very well. I really liked how you started the podcast with a countdown and had a mashup of music and the judge’s tape as a background to your voiceover. I think your voiceover could have been slightly louder and the background audio slightly lower because it became kind of confusing when you were talking and there was another audio of a judge in the background. Nevertheless, your podcast was very engaging and interesting and clearly detailed what you were going to be talking about.