IT IS a star-studded festival featuring some of the most influential names in rock.

Among the headliners at Glastonbury this year are the Rolling Stones, Liam Gallagher and Arctic Monkeys.

The daddy of all festivals will see some 175,000 revellers flocking to the 1,000 acres Worth Farm for an entertainment extravaganza.

And media students from Southampton will be the ones filming it all as they help to make the festival go completely digital for the first time. A team of more than 30 from Solent University will be setting up camp as they perform a vital film, production and journalism role For the ninth year, the university is sending students and staff along with its cutting-edge equipment to the festival to co-ordinate BBC news clips of the bands and general footage of the festival.

The aim is to make it accessible to the world’s media on the internet.

Senior film and TV studies lecturer Tony Steyger said: “This year we are working very closely with the BBC and broadcasting to the world.

“Our students will have to work hard and think on their feet at this famously demanding and unpredictable location environment. It'll be great fun and very exciting.”

Students from media-related courses – including television and video production, media technology, film and television studies and sound engineering – are taking Solent’s outside broadcast truck, along with wellies and waterproofs, to produce a series of short films for Glastonbury TV.

Meanwhile journalism students will be gathering the latest news and shooting video footage for the festival’s website and the Glastonbury Free Press, which is edited by The Guardian.

Teams will also be filming bands, comedians and speakers on the new Sonic and Left Field stages.

One crew will be filming a bee’seye view of the festival for a giant sculpture, commissioned by Ecover, to raise awareness of bees.

This year, the university is also working closely with the BBC to provide audio and production students with valuable professional experience at the John Peel stage.

Solent senior technician Dave Poulton started the work experience in 2004 after years of taking a small group with him to run a voluntary food kitchen on Michael Eavis’s site. Since then, Solent students have learnt their trade while mixing with the world’s biggest performers.