In this post i will be looking at how and why multi cam is used in the form of a music festival.
Music festival are heavily populated places with many popular acts from all kinds of genres playing together for a whole weekend in some cases like this one. Glastonbury is one of the biggest music festivals every with thousands of people going each year to see the acts so what better chance to catch the acts then to film there live performances.
As you can see below there is a diagram of the camera placement of the music festival and below that is many screen shots of each of these shots.
As you can see above the cameras are placed all over the place this is because of the sheer amount of space in the area of the music festival with the amount of space allows for multiple cameras to be used for the shows.
This first shot above is a mid shot of the singer getting into the music this shot is used to show the act performing up close and to show the energy and determination on his face it also shows the audience who is performing luckily in this case it is only a solo artist with no back up or singers just him so they don't need to go any further out as there primary focus.
The point of this long shot is to show the viewers the amount of people and the distance between the stage and the people this helps create a sense of atmosphere without even being there much like sports multi-cam they use a camera at a distance to create that sense of atmosphere to envelop the audience in that idea of atmosphere. This is to also to allow the other cameras to get in position for there next shot on stage.
This is the same shot but with a quick graphic to show the audience who is playing and what song is about to be played this is all about timing.
This reverse shot is to illursrate to the audience the distance between the stage and the crowd also how far the crowd can stretch. It also creates that sense of atmosphere again it is beautifully shot so we get that shot of the one artist performing his song in front of all those people it creates that idea of one man against an army so to speak it helps grip us in the environment and allows the cameras to quickly change position.
This close up shot of the foot of are artist is mainly for detail it is mainly to show his movement and what he is doing on stage its a little detail for the audience to enjoying also allowing the audience to see his process when performing the song its an attention to detail shot.
This shot of the audience is created to show the enjoyment on the faces of his fans it creates more feeling to the song and grips our audience even more as it slowly zooms out to allow others to get in the shot. Its primary focuses is the women on the shoulders of another person this is to primary been seen on camera having a good time this helps the audience feel like they were there. Many sports games do this as well when a goal has been scored it is to show emotion of our audience and helps push that emotion to our viewers as well.
This shot is beautiful and its function is simple the shot is created so you feel like your stud in the crowd of these people seeing the stage with our audience it makes you feel as if you were at the concert it is a perfect point of view of shot for the audience viewing this on TV it helps you stand in the shoes of the crowd not used in other multi-cam formats it helps create that sense of realism.
This close up shot is designed to catch the emotion of out performer helping us see how much effort he is putting into his performance it helps deliver that extra punch to the song which makes the audience feel more immersed in the action you can even see the sweat on his face and the redness on his checks these little details help create more atmosphere and helps the audience get more into the song as much as our artist is.
This long shot is beautifully framed as we get one side of the stage the audience and the scenery of Glastonbury this shot is mainly designed to created a distanced point of view shot showing the stretch of fans that go off into the distance of Glastonbury it again creates that sense of realism and wanting to be at the performance it gives it that little sense of as freedom as well with the beautifully sky and hills in the background.
This mid shot is a sort of behind the scenes shot of our performer showing our audience the whole stage immersing you in the action of our performer once again it shows just him and no one else all this space helps create that immersed feeling of wanting to be on stage with hims and perform and as i also said it helps create a behind the scenes of whats going on what space he has to perform all of his song to his fans.
This one final shot much like the last one is a shot of behind the scenes of our performers area this shows him walking away illustrating to our audience that this is the final performance of this show and that he is walking away from his stage which helps creates that audience feel that sense of final act and the end of a performance much like TV shows and act who perfumes there talent on there would get a final shot of them walking off stage its to tell the audience that it is finished.
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