West Campus Drumline

What is the WCDL?

I participated in drumline for all four years of high school and during my first year I came up with the idea of recording our performance from the perspectives of the performers. I borrowed more than 10 GoPro action cameras from friends and the public library and hatched a plan to have difference performers wear them out mount them on various instruments. On the last day of our season set up all my cameras and we preformed the show three to five times. Then to create the show I synced all of the takes together and edited the dozens of perspectives together in a way that best tells the story of the show. This was a massive undertaking because I would usually end up with 30 or more angles of the show (10 cameras times 3+ takes) and it would take me a month to edit together.

I've believe these videos are very unique because I haven't seen anything like them. Sure plenty of other drumlines record and post body cams of their instrument's but I have yet to see anyone combine all of the body cams together to showcase their entire show.

Below are the videos for 2017-19, but unfortunately our show was cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.