The target audience for this live show is teenagers upwards, as these are the people that go to festivals. The beginning of this show starts with a fade up and the sound of screaming fans. The shot is a long establishing shot of the audience and a stage. The titles then appear, and this is very different to the titles we saw on the 'Festival Britannia,' footage, as the 'Festival Britannia,' footage was more about how the festivals have progressed into the modern day, and it has a montage of different festivals, whereas this Glastonbury footage just left the titles plain with the name of the band and also the festival that they are playing at. Now the titles of the festivals are much more interesting and lively. We then see footage of the act playing, and this is all cross dissolved into one another. The first initial transitions from shot to shot are very slow, but they are being edited at the same pace as the music. You don't want a fast edit if the song is slow, they just wouldn't suit each other. The editing of the show would be done by an Editor that would probably be editing from the festival in a little studio or back in the BBC base editing from there. This would've had to been edited as the show happened as it was a live show.
A typical convention of footage from a festival is that there is always close ups of the musicians and singers. Here again the camera work doesn't let us down, it continues to follow the typical conventions and use close ups, and often long shots of the musicians. There are also close ups of the instruments being played, but not of the musician playing them. They'd rather have the focus on the intricacy and skill thats involved in playing the instrument, than the person who is focusing on playing them so much. This gives the audience at home a feeling that they are there, rather than sitting in their living room and not actually getting the live experience. The shots were also changed according to the beat of the song, which is another typical convention. A crane is being used to show different shots. The crane can be used for shots of the audience or shots of the stage from a very high angle. The crane is able to pan across and zoom into whatever it wants, getting footage that handheld cameras cannot get. At the beginning and end of every song, a long shot of the stage is shown with the first few rows the audience also in the frame. Captions were used when a new song also began. The captions were in the same font as the titles, and plain. There was no logo or branding like we see now at the Modern Glastonbury, where they use the Glastonbury logo in the bottom left hand corner of the caption.
This is carefully placed so that your eye sees the logo before anything else that is mentioned in the caption. Ofcom, a regulatory body that gives out a 'Restricted Television Service Licence for an Event (RTSL-E).' The price of a licence an can change depending on how many people will be attending the event. For Glastonbury who now has over 150,000 people attend every year would have to pay at least £500 for the licence. This licence would allow them to be able to broadcast the set either live on TV or now Wirelessly through the internet. The license is granted for up to 56 days, which is more than enough time for a festival, considering they usually last 3-5 days. The credits for this coverage are a lot simpler compared to the 'Festival Britannia,' credits. They end with a simple font showing the names of a few people that have worked on the coverage and it then fades out to the sound of the audience cheering, much like how the show began.
Some of this has changed since 1977, now you would see more handheld cameras on the stage, following the band or artist, and a lot of shots will be done with the jibb and a dolly track. You would now see presenters introducing the act and giving a brief industry in the act, these presenters would be suitable for the target audience, for instance you wouldn't see Bruce Forsyth introducing Beyonce at Glastonbury, instead you would see Fearne Cotton, Edith Bowman and Greg James. These people are usually radio presenters that are on popular well known radio broadcasters. The titles would also be a lot longer than they are on here, this years Glastonbury titles were fun, energetic, and represented the festival well. The titles included a big green and black triangle which represented the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
Live Nation are the producers of Glastonbury Live, and they have a big influence on what is broadcast. They decide what acts will be recorded and shown on TV. Usually main headline acts are chosen, such as Beyonce was broadcast live in 2011, not only because she was a headline act, but because she is the only female solo artist to have ever headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
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