https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-gspA6xcPg
BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Mashup uses a selection of clips from artists performing over the weekend, to produce a medley of music, with clips only lasting a matter of seconds. This approach gives the audience an insight into a large range of musical styles and artists that featured over the weekend, without dragging out the video to cover larger sections of performances. I found that this piece uses recognisable clips from songs pushed together to create a new sound piece, without sounding glitchy or unintentional.
The musical tone in the video is somewhat consistent throughout, due to the running theme of a similar genre, which ties each short sound clip together. I found by watching this that it is important to select a theme that can define the structure, so by only selecting one bands music, the sound is consistent and more uniform.
The video itself uses live performances matched to the music, to display to the viewer the style and presentation of performance at the festival, and give an indication of the weekend itself. This approach could be used within my own promotional video, as the Country to Country festival should be promoted honestly within an insight into the event itself.
In the Dictionary of Music by Theodore Karp, a musical medley is described as “a work made by stringing together a group of well-known tunes, either used in their entirety or in part.” By collecting well-known clips from Zac Brown Band songs, I could collate a piece that would be recognisable to people informed in the music, as well as enticing people who were unfamiliar to the band.