2 festivals down, 1 to go…
With the deadline beginning to loom I have now got to knuckle down and start sorting out my project in my head – which unfortunately will mean several hours in Avid logging all my shots. (I have so far got about 4hours worth of footage and I’ve not been to the Big Green Gathering yet!)
At this point I have to admit that I did have a major panic at Chagstock this past weekend.. Since it was quite a small festival I did get some wonderful shots of the artists doing their thing from quite close up. (Really very close up to Seth Lakeman on Friday night!) But whilst this is all well and good it’s not entirely relevant – I really need to crack on and find stuff that’s green.
To this end I have now organised a meeting with Firefly Solar who will be providing generators and a PA system for the Big Green Gathering. They are one of the leaders in solar stages in the UK, so I hope this will be something concrete that I can film and show the developments in the field (no pun intended).
At Chagstock they kept the rubbish under control by getting a team from Proper Job in to help recycle it all. But they apparently hand sort it all (!) which meant that unlike Beachbreak, where they had seperate bins, it didn’t look like they were doing much at all. But I am in the process of organising an interview with them as well to try and get another angle on the whole rubbish issue….
But of course rubbish is only one side of the problem, the carbon emissions from the vehicles are a whole other story and unfortunately much harder to show on TV. I have sent an email off to the Big Green Coach who organise coach travel to some of the biggest UK festivals. It would be awesome to talk to these guys about how they are trying to help the music industry cut down on their emissions, but as of yet I haven’t got anything sorted.
It was a question that I asked Celia when I interviewed her at Beach Break Live, and she said that with the move to Kent, they had had more people drive to the event than in previous years. Nonetheless I found some people who had come by bus or by train, so some people are obviously still thinking green.
I am also having some problems tracking down dates for my main interviewees – but I won’t bore you with all the details.
I’ve had my panic and now I’m going to sit down and set some dates in stone, try and get my thoughts down on paper in a storyboard form, and also consider a basic script.
I will also honestly try to get some of my footage on to youtube in a bit – there are some issues about copyright, but I’ll do as much as I can.
