1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 6: Festival
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
6.1.1 Investigating festivals
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Investigating festivals
1) Examine promotional materials (brochures and/or website downloads) from a number
of contrasting festivals and complete the table below.
You will need to:
a) enter the name of each festival you are investigating
b) note the type of festival e.g. film, music, general arts
c) look for details of the aims and/or artistic policy of each festival
d) give examples of the types of events included in the festival programme (include 2–
3 examples of specific events)
e) consider who the target audience for the festival might be.
Name of Type of Artistic Programme Target
festival festival policy or content audience
aims
Underage Music Get 14-18 year There are many The target
festival olds to have a different stages audience is
good time with at this concert, strictly 14-18
out any adults they give you a year olds.
there. card telling you
what time
different artists
are on, there are
also
refreshments
available.
The "V" represents
V Festival Music the Virgin Group, event is held at 16-40 year olds
with the event two parks, artists
being sponsored perform at one
by Virgin Media location on
and televised on Saturday and
Channel 4 and 4 then swap on
Music. The aim is Sunday. The
to promote the sites are located
channels. at Hylands Park
and Weston Park
a wide range of
musical genres
are accepted; in
recent years pop
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acts have
become more
common.
Sanfermines Bull running The purpose of It is a practice Anyone is
festival this event is the that involves welcome to this
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transport of the running in front event.
bulls from the of a small group
off-site corrals of bulls that have
where they had been let loose,
spent the night, on a course of a
to the bullring sectioned-off
where they town's and
would be killed in streets. The
the evening. most famous
running of the
bulls is that of
the seven-day
festival of
Sanfermines
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