Informative Speech On Color Guard

Speech #2: Informative Speech
Attention Statement: How many of you have seen or heard of the Disney movie, “Cadet Kelly?” For those of you that have not seen the movie, there’s girl named Kelly that goes off to military school, and while she’s there she develops an interest in drill team, which in the movie, involves a group of people doing various marching drills and spinning rifles. During high school, I was a part of something similar but a little less militaristic, and a little bit more artistic, called color guard.
Introduction: Today I am going give you all an overview of color guard by talking about the background behind color guard, color guard within marching band, and winter guard. Body:
The background behind color guard
According to the Winter Guard Association

Along with the band, they also had a soldier holding a flag with their colors on it.”
Winter guard International defines modern, performing arts color guard as “[the] combination of the use of flags, sabers, mock rifles, and other equipment, as well as dance and other interpretive movement.”
Color guard is taking each of these components and creating a competition piece/performance with theme.
B. Color Guard within Marching Band
Both Bands of America and the Western Band Association define color guard within a marching band as, “[the] non-musical section that provides the visual aspect of the performance.”
Basically, color guard members are the people that show a visual interpretation of the music the band is playing with their flags, sabres, rifles, and movement. From my personal experience, their costumes also play a role in helping the show come to life. Also from my experience, these performances take place on football fields in various venues such as high school and college football stadiums.
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