Eurovision song contest in the spotlight!

What does it take to put on the biggest song contest in the world?

The Eurovision is watched the world over, with an audience of over 200 million worldwide and thousands more in attendance, there is no doubt that it is a huge undertaking for the production staff involved. This year’s 62^nd instalment was no different, with another show full of ridiculous and eccentric entries we have all come to expect.

It’s a huge event; but it’s also the sheer number of different stage designs that take such an immense amount of planning. With each country putting on a unique, and usually explosive, performance, careful consideration has to be given to the requirements of each contestant as well as the show as a whole. This means thousands of lights and screens, literally hundreds of kilometres of cables, endless speakers, pyrotechnics and cameras, along with an entire division of technicians, runners, riggers, drivers, operators and of course, stagehands!

Some entries are intimate, slow performances with single spotlight on a woman in a ball gown with some dry ice at her feet..usually with some visuals of ice or some birds. Others are great explosive affairs with whole dance troops running around dressed as horses in tuxedoes or waving unrelated colourful flags! Either way, they are all a different challenge for the staff involved.

We want to acknowledge the effort made by our colleagues across the industry and say a big congratulations to everyone that helped build the 2017 Eurovision. It was a great show, we saw it from here in Berlin and we liked it so much we wrote an article about it!
If you are planning a show like Eurovision, stagehands.net can even provide local crew in the Ukraine, so give us a call today..or email us, its 2017 after all.
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(picture:By Frédéric de Villamil from Paris, France (The main stage before the second semi final) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)