Live music event/Festival

A live music event like this one or a Festival is also a multi camera filming scenario. Many of the cameras that are used at a live music event are hand held cameras. And only a few on tripods. The reason why some of the cameras are hand held on events like these is because it is easier to get close ups of the instruments and other small details. There can be up to 10 cameras capturing the show. There is usually two cameras on the stage capturing the audience in the form of an over the shoulder shot of the artist. The other camera on the stage will be getting close ups of people in the backing band. 

This is the opening shot of the Ed Sheeran video, this has been filmed with a camera that it attacked to a crane, at first it begins as a very wide shot capturing the vastness of all the people that are there to watch this one single human preform on stage. With this sort of shot and how long they zoom it in for all the other cameras can get prepared for the following shots. It then begins to zoom into the stage before cutting to the following shot:

This shot that has been used after the previous one has been captured by one of the cameras on stage, and it is almost a reverse shot from the other camera. This is also a shot that is helping to create an atmosphere for the viewer at home, or at the festival if it is being shown on the big screens.

This particular shot will have been filmed by one of the camera on a track at the front of the stage, this is also one of the same cameras that will shoot the close ups of the singer and also the camera that will capture people in the audience as it will be capable of swinging round to the opposite direction.

This is a close up angle filmed with one of the camera on a track in front of the stage, but it is being shot from the other side. With these close up shots, its shows the emotion on the singers face, and because it is a shot with his eyes closed, it almost looks as if he is lost in the music and is comfortable.

The reason why a music event such as Glastonbury is a multi camera production is because there are lots of different acts and lots of different stages to be covered in the time that it is one, so they could be filming one event to be shown later on TV while they shown another act live. And this requires lots of camera, but the smaller stages tend not to require as many cameras as the main stage. With the different camera that are set up they can cover a lot of the action of what is going on, from the audience to what is happening on stage and behind the singer - the backing band.

The visual style of these type of productions it depends on when it is being filmed, as it is being filmed during the day there is no requirement for lights etc, but if it was being filmed in the dark then the camera would have to be adjusted so it would pick up on all the details of the singer and make sure that the lighting didn't wash them out.

With this being an outdoor festival there is usually no restraints on the location environment as it is an open space to sprawl out with as much equipment as necessary.

This is a plan of what I think the camera set up is for Ed's Glasto set. There could be more cameras than there are on this plan.