SO_E_U8_DVD.doc

  Elementary Unit 8 DVD Script

V = Voice-over              M1 = Man 1                            M2 = Man 2
W1 = Woman 1              W2 = Woman 2              M3 = Man 3
 

V:              All over the world, festivals bring people together. But why do people go? For the music? The food? The fun and games? We went to Bestival in the Isle of Wight, England to find out.

              But the first question is – where do we sleep?

M1:              Um, I’ve got a beach hut up here to stay in, and I’ve got the key.

V:              One man said it was like sleeping in the back garden.

M2:              It’s like opening your back door, going down to the end of your garden, getting in your shed with your baby and wife, and then calling it a holiday.

V:               You can stay in a hut, but most people here sleep in tents. There are a lot of different people here – families, young people, older people. We asked: Why do so many different people come to festivals?

W1:               Well, I suppose it gives everybody a chance just to be themselves, and just … be free … and be away from their normal jobs.

W2:              People will respect each other and have, um, sort of some of those old-fashioned traditional values, but actually values that everyone really likes.

M3:              The thing I always think about festivals is they’re just playgrounds for grownups.

V:              And, of course, there’s one reason everyone’s here: the music.

This really is a festival for all the community, young and old mixing together. In the tea tent these women are having a great time. Why do they go to festivals?

W3:                 The community getting together and the young mixing with the older people. We make cakes, we do pop festivals, we’ll go anywhere, do anything.

V:              So, if there’s one answer to the question, ‘Why are you here?’, one thing that everyone talks about, is this: being together.