May 21
Hejsan svejsan you crazy people! I know many of you are interested in what we used in this show. So here we go!
It’s hard do Television without lighting, so we kindly asked Litecom to pack a couple of trailers with the following:
44 x Ayrton Bora
46 x Ayrton Ghibli
106 x Ayrton Khamsin
206 x Ayrton MagicBalde-FX
358 x Ayrton MagicBalde-R
54 x Ayrton MagicDot-R
66 x Clay Paky Axcor 600
152 x Clay Paky Sharpy Wash
116 x Clay Paky SharpyPLUS
72 x Clay Paky UNICO
376 x DTS Katana
48 x DTS Synergy
210 x ETC S4 LED 2, Daylight HD
30 x GLP JDC-1
106 x GLP X4 Bar 20
28 x Goldpix 7×7 LED Matrix
87 x Robe BMFL Spot
116 x Robe BMFL WashBeam
78 x Robe MegaPointe
94 x SGM Q7
17 x LiteCom Spotdrive Remote Followspot Control
8 x LiteCom Camera Ringlite
9 x LiteCom Camera Mini Panel
8 x LiteCom Camera Panel
4 x MA2 FullSIze
13 x MA2 Light
22 x GrandMA NPU
22 x GrandMA 8port node
7 pcs MDG ATMe
And it’s even harder to make Television without Cameras so we asked NEP to bring the following:
2 x Fullsize OB Trucks
23 x Broadcast cameras
11km of broadcast cables
Cuepilot System
30 x Ipads
4 x Cases of Loka Crush Raspberry
And if you want some of the cameras to have a little action, you better ask Opertec to bring this:
1 x 52ft Moviebird Crane
1 x 45ft Moviebird Crane
2 x Remote controlled telescopic dollies with rails
1 x 2D System
1 x Dropcam system
We also had 3 x Steadi cam operators in our show.
Video is fun! So we asked PRG to bring this:
552 x Panels Roe CB5
384 x Panels of Gloshine LM 4,81
22 x Panasonic DZ-21 Projectors
2 200 x VER Blade 90cm
6 x Bromton 4k led processor and distributors
6 xDisguise d3 vx4 Media Servers
2 x Midi distributor X4
8 x Bird dog studio ndi
4 x D3 editor computer intel i9 with 64 gig ram nvidia 2080ti graphic card nvme 3.2 tera drive
10 x D3 designer dongles
4 pcs GrandMA 8port node, onPC
Since we like to blow shit up, we told Pyroman to bring this:
10 x Heavy fog machines
48 x Flame Unites
20 x Spark Machines.
18 x MagicFX Smoke Jet
24 x 16 channel pyroracks on stage.
1 x Waterfall trusses with 40 holders
8 x Magnum Confetti Cannons for the winning song
2 x Universal Effects Wind Machine
8 x MagicFX Stage Fans
We are noisy people, so we asked Agora and Sennheiser to bring this:
52 x L-Acoustics K2
12 x L-Acoustics KS28
22 x L-Acoustics Kara
2 x DiGiCo SD5 Core 2 : Waves + Optocore
3 DiGiCo SD5 Core 2 : Optocore
2 x Digico SD9: Optocore
7 x DiGiCo SD Rack : Optocore
3 x RME MADIFace Router
3 x Optocore DD2 FR/FX
5 x Optocore DD4 MR/FX
8 x Lawo Madi SRC
232 x Sennheiser Microphones
250 x Sennheiser IEM molds
110 x Sennheiser IEM Receivers
24 x Sennheiser IEM Transmitters
And PRG hung the 185 tonnes with:
1 050 x Rigging Points
650 x hoists
110 xLoad Cells
6 500 x Meters of truss
Since we like to talk, we asked Riedel to bring the following:
175 x Intercom Panels
265 x Analogue Radios
205 x Tetra Radios
20 x km of Signal fiber cables
1150 x rechargeable battery sets
140 x network switches
260 x WIFI Access points
6000 Mbit/s internet capacity.
And that is, in short, what you need to do a Eurovision Song Contest! Quite simple if you think about it!
Here are some other fun facts!
The original Expo was built before the birth of the State of Israel
The Expo moved to its current location in 1948
The stage was located in Hall 2 that was opened four years ago.
The greenroom and delegation bubble was located in Hall 1next door.
It took 54 days from load in to load out.
Build up was 21 days long. Load out is only 96 hours.
We had 7 200 spectators in the audience
We were using 3 000 shifts of stage hands to do this production.
It required 225 people to operate the Eurovision broadcasts.
We brought 250 Trucks of gear for the production
We used 37 x Forklifts, Cherry Pickers and Scissor Lifts for the build up and load out.
A total of 250 kilometers of cable was used in this production.
Catering served over 50 000 meals
My Espresso machine in the Production Office brewed 1 000 cups of Espresso
Wew really need a holiday now!