APRIL 8

WELCOME TO THE 11TH EDITION OF THE EUROVISION DIARY!

APRIL 8

Hejsan Hejsan!

My operation team is working really hard on getting our Official App up and running. Since they are also the ones making sure to take pictures of the daily development, we’ll swing a different course today!

So, here are the fun facts of this year’s production. 24 hours before the press gets it tomorrow!

Lighting:

1816 fixtures
Consumes 854 000 watts
67 000 control channels
61 km of cable just for lighting
Takes 5 main and 5 back up lighting desks to run the show
16 followspot operators
40 people involved to run lighting during broadcast

Video:

1000 sqm of LED Screen
71 000 002 pixels resolution
12 media servers to handle all video content
10 people required to create all content.
56 High Output Projectors
4 High End MMS systems

Sound:

258 speakers
825 600 watt output
212 microphones
18 IEM systems (In ear monitor)
152 IEM recievers (In ear monitor)
13 sound desks
34 people involved to run sound during broadcast

Pyro:

48 x flame units
50 x firing positions
6 x Heavy Fog Outlets

Rigging:

212 tons of rigged gear in the roof
112 Cyberhoist
735 rigging points
3262 meters of truss
42 riggers to get everything up

Power:

7 Megawatts at full capacity
18 Generators
20 000 Liter of fuel used every day
38,5 km of high voltage cable

Stage:

Stage weighs 30 tons
350 sqm performance area
Height 14 meters
Width 70 meters
Depth 28 meters
8 000 work hours in pre production
40 stage techs to handle change overs during broadcast

Broadcast

30 cameras in total- 19 for show broadcast
50 people involved to handle broadcast
2 directors
We are using Cuepilot
1 x 2d camera and 1 x 1D camera, 3 cranes, 2 rails

Production:

200 trucks of gear
100 stage hands for load in, 150 for load out

Grandstands:

22 000 pcs of scaff
It weights 450 tons
7 573 seats
60 wheelchair seats

Here are a few highlights from the weekend:

This is from the stage left audience grandstands looking towards the stage. Hopefully soon the floor will be cleared. Seriously guys, move all this crap! My Segway is getting dusty!

And the grandstands continue to grow! Here’s Henk van de Garskamp from Unbranded who just found his way out of the maze! It’s hell trying to find catering!

Saturday was Hans Cromheecke’s birthday so we celebrated with some cake – chocolate of course!

Name: Carsten Jäckel

Title: Cyberhoist Op/Technician

OM: So you’re German. Tell me something funny.

CJ: Germans are not funny. OM: Ha ha, that was funny!

OM: Thanks for the name tag on your helmet – but when we worked together in Baku, your helmet said “Schinderhanes”. Did you change your name?

CJ: No that means like a worker guy that pushes things. The stagehands were always on a break so I was always pushing things where they needed to go and the other guys stuck that on my helmet. But like you, everyone thought it was my name saying, “Good morning Schinderhanes!”

OM: Tell me something people wouldn’t guess about you.

CJ: Actually last year in Stockholm I was getting easily frustrated, you know like when you’re standing in line at the store and someone in front of you is paying in coins, or you drive into the car wash and suddenly think, “I’m trapped, now what?!” So a friend who teaches yoga taught me breathing exercises and now I do that a lot. OM: You didn’t know how to breathe?? I thought that was a pretty basic skill…..