Tor View Look Out

[Crazyfool01]

This is why the festival is so superb and keeps me returning , new and wonderful places , it just keeps on evolving and improving , every area with so much thought and time going into it , thanks Michael and Emily and all the creative types that put so much work and ideas in . 2 weeks

[5co77ie]

The thing I circled is this though, right?

Have we decided that's not Tor View?

It's not Tor View Tor View is at the top of the Theatre and Circus fields near Glebeland. This is I think the new BBC viewing area.

[Dukeicon]

Weird, because in the video they suggest this is the view from it:

And that is clearly from a position up near Worthy View. I'm guessing the video is wrong.

I think that shot of the festival is unrelated to Tor View Lookout. It's the structure that ME is climbing and being interviewed from. In the interview you can see a shot from it back towards the Pyramid down through the markets near to the cider bus.

[5co77ie]

Weird, because in the video they suggest this is the view from it:

And that is clearly from a position up near Worthy View. I'm guessing the video is wrong.

No that's the veiw from Glebeland looking WNW to the interstage compound, between Pyramid (right) and Other Stage (left) with John Peel in background and the Worthy farm complex to your right. I think that's Goose Hall just visible bottom right. The Tor would be further left. Edited June 10, 2015 by 5co77ie

[mr gumby]

So basically, Tor View sounds to me like a similar idea to the Park ribbon tower, somewhere to climb up and get a good view across the site, only from the east rather than south. Anyone heard if there'll be anything more to it?

[5co77ie]

I guess it will be in the programme

[ryan.smith]

Seems strange that they'd include it on the line-up pages if it was just a lookout area though ... they don't include the Ribbon Tower on there do they? Must be some sort of performances going on...

[deebeedoobee]

It was featured on Points West last night at 6pm. Someone put a link up on another thread. It's a viewing platform.

[5co77ie]

It was featured on Points West last night at 6pm. Someone put a link up on another thread. It's a viewing platform.

and the award for not reading a thread goes to....

[Wanderlei]

It's not going to be wet! Straight from ME's mouth. Relax, everyone.

[stephos83]

Watch the linked video & you'll see that structure you have circled is not the Tor View Lookout.

This structure is The Temple at The Park

[JBarbour]

[ThomThomDrum]

On a map if you see Williams Green, Astrolabe and Acoustic as the 3 points of a triangle then the Tor View will be approximately in the middle of that triangle I reckon.

Here they usually have late night performances so Tor View may be both a venue and a viewing platform

[deebeedoobee]

and the award for not reading a thread goes to....

and if you go to the news clip it explains exactly what and where it is....rather than everyone guessing.

http://youtu.be/3pSzFGzX60A

Edited June 10, 2015 by deebeedoobee

[ThomThomDrum]

and if you go to the news clip it explains exactly what and where it is....rather than everyone guessing.

http://youtu.be/3pSzFGzX60A

Really?

Where in the clip does it explain where on site it is?

[deebeedoobee]

Really?

Where in the clip does it explain where on site it is?

At 0.24 and 1.35 it has ME on the platform with the Pyramid in the background

Edited June 10, 2015 by deebeedoobee

[ThomThomDrum]

At 1.35 it has ME on the platform with the Pyramid in the background

Yes and based on that people on here have been speculating as to its position. But such a camera shot would not make such speculative answers definitive. Also the view shot as they talk over the clip about the view from the platform confuses the viewer as they use footage from another point on the site but the viewer is easily led to believe that the shot is the view from the platform hence the confusion above

[5co77ie]

and if you go to the news clip it explains exactly what and where it is....rather than everyone guessing.

http://youtu.be/3pSzFGzX60A

and Duke Icon's post on page one?

I was using the footage to explain the still from that very film, and where on site the photo is taken from

[5co77ie]

Yes and based on that people on here have been speculating as to its position. But such a camera shot would not make such speculative answers definitive. Also the view shot as they talk over the clip about the view from the platform confuses the viewer as they use footage from another point on the site but the viewer is easily led to believe that the shot is the view from the platform hence the confusion above

no that's footage from that location, it IS the view from the platform - see my earlier post - Pyramid to right Other to left, farm to far right, goose hall bottom right, else park and the ribbon tower would be in view

Edited June 10, 2015 by 5co77ie

[Cheesey]

no that's footage from that location, it IS the view from the platform - see my earlier post - Pyramid to right Other to left, farm to far right, goose hall bottom right, else park and the ribbon tower would be in view

Doesn't look right to me. The view in the video looks like this:

I think the white tent on the right is this one:

The only place you can get a view like that is from Worthy View (EDIT: or perhaps flagtopia actually - the tree in the foreground on the video looks like the one at the top of Pennards):

Edited June 10, 2015 by Cheesey

[frostypaw]

But such a camera shot would not make such speculative answers definitive.

Actually yes it does - the pyramid is not symmetrical so it makes it 100% definitive - the path layout below even more so

I reckon it's right by the hedge just after Ped Gate C in what I think is Glebeland, roughly where there is usually a little acoustic stage and cafe, across the road from Mutoid Waste or, if you go back that far, where all the inflatables were

Wasn't it blazing saddles on the left at some point too?

Either way. It's a rather disappointing viewing tower.

Shall I post the video again? Clearly zero people read the whole thread these days.... grump.

Edited June 10, 2015 by frostypaw

[filmguy]

https://www.facebook.com/theatreandcircusfields/posts/1663454433885146

[deebeedoobee]

I shall clearly have to whip myself with nettles and crawl back into my box.

Having walked the farm nearly every week for many years I thought it was obvious from the video where the platform is.

but hey ho as you were

[Woffy]

I shall clearly have to whip myself with nettles and crawl back into my box.

Can we watch from the Tor View Lookout Platform?

;)

[Cheesey]

https://www.facebook.com/theatreandcircusfields/posts/1663454433885146

The view in those pictures:

is clearly not the same as the view in the BBC video:

Conclusion - the BBC report is a load of balls.

Edited June 10, 2015 by Cheesey