The Incredible Production Behind Eurovision 2024 🇸🇪 • Behind The Scenes

It’s lucky number SEVEN for Sweden. A bold new look and staging, some old familiar mainstays, a 50 year anniversary to celebrate, and a need to innovate for its third hosting in 11 years - how did they do it?

Join me and let’s deep dive behind the scenes into the world’s biggest and longest running live TV event - the Eurovision Song Contest - as for the third time in 11 years we’re back in Sweden!

Fernand’s Live Show Show - the show taking a look at the cool creative production madness happening behind the scenes in live TV.

A massive thanks to
Per Blankens, Show Producer
Robin Hofwander, Senior Multicamera Director
Sidney Lim, Design Director
for their invaluable insight!

and a special thanks to
Julian Gutierrez
fellow TV bods in the industry
for making this episode possible!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro - History Repeats Itself?
01:06 A Summary
02:55 Old, New, Borrowed & Blue
05:18 Meet The Team
06:46 Let’s Make A Show!
07:03 INTERVIEW - Per Blankens, Show Producer
08:47 What’s New This Year?
10:52 The Arena
11:23 Setting The Stage
14:13 Automation
16:29 From Stage To Screen
16:53 INTERVIEW - Robin Hofwander, Snr Multicam Director
18:17 Cameras: How Many & Where?
20:13 Cameras: For One Night* Only
21:20 PSF: the ‘filmic’ look
22:31 LiveEdit
24:01 Stage Ready, Stage Un-Ready
26:50 Graphics
27:26 INTERVIEW - Sidney Lim, Design Director
29:45 The Scoreboard
31:32 Performance Secrets
34:11 FLiSS Faves
36:43 Ta-ra and Tack Och Förlåt For Now

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SOURCES:
Eurovision (YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok & (Eurovision.tv)
SVT
BBC
Green Wall Designs
NEP Sweden
LiveEdit
ESC Insight
TVB Europe
The Eurotrip Podcast
TPI Magazine
Live Design Online
Bold Scandinavia
Creative Technology
Solo16 Broadcast
Eurovision Reddit
Original Eurovision Diary
AtPeterHayes (Twitter)
VXO Design
Avant Garde (110west40th.com)
Content
as credited on screen
Colour
Jonna Jinton
Benita Larsson
Øresundsbron


Music - Epidemic Sounds

Apologies if I've missed you out here, you will have been credited on screen.

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