Gutted. The UK couldn't have done any more this year. Serious questions have to be asked as to whether we continue to participate. Europe has put the competiton back a decade, back to those dark days when silly gimmicks won. Appalled.
Yes to the smart glass. Also late joining so what effect on the floor? If it's what I'm thinking, it's a large reactive screen, so when people step on it it can sense it and match the graphics.
You can do that - but in this case i'm pretty certain it was just pre-recorded graphics that are tied to the music track, and the artists just hit their marks.
As for the foreground projection screens - I don't think they are "smart glass" but a different type of screen that takes light well but also appears transparent when not directly hit by light.
Gutted. The UK couldn't have done any more this year. Serious questions have to be asked as to whether we continue to participate. Europe has put the competiton back a decade, back to those dark days when silly gimmicks won. Appalled.
Seriously? Of course we'll continue to participate - it's the best value shiny floor the BBC have.
And I couldn't agree less about your gimmick comment. The composer of the Russian entry has already said that Russia needs to take note of the result and re-think some of it's attitudes.
I found the result quite touching, as I found the huge response in the auditorium.
Gutted. The UK couldn't have done any more this year. Serious questions have to be asked as to whether we continue to participate.
No they don't. We can't throw our toys out the pram just because we didn't win. At the end of the day if the ratings are still justifying the cost the BBC should keep entering.
If you're talking about the beard as the silly gimmick it probably helped make the act stand out and made it memorable to some but I don't think it would have done so well if people didn't also think it was a good song.
As I've already said I don't think this years winner has been as good as some of the previous ones but you can't like them all.
Yes to the smart glass. Also late joining so what effect on the floor? If it's what I'm thinking, it's a large reactive screen, so when people step on it it can sense it and match the graphics.
You can do that - but in this case i'm pretty certain it was just pre-recorded graphics that are tied to the music track, and the artists just hit their marks.
As for the foreground projection screens - I don't think they are "smart glass" but a different type of screen that takes light well but also appears transparent when not directly hit by light.
I was basing my comments on the video I linked to, where they show the smart glass being turned off/on, and the production designer said that about the screen in the floor of the stage reacting to footprints.
Yes to the smart glass. Also late joining so what effect on the floor? If it's what I'm thinking, it's a large reactive screen, so when people step on it it can sense it and match the graphics.
You can do that - but in this case i'm pretty certain it was just pre-recorded graphics that are tied to the music track, and the artists just hit their marks.
You could see in the semi that the steadicam op was also triggering the effect on the floor. I'm pretty sure it's just an I/R camera connected to some motion capture software generating the sparkles, there's numerous easy solutions available. IIRC it was also used for a couple of effects in one of the interval acts.
Note that Poland came first in the UK televote and last with the UK jury (also true of semi-final). Strikes me as interesting that the professional view and popular view were so divergent. Or could the popular vote have been influenced by the UK's Polish diaspora?
Austria deserved to win, good song, fan favourite. First drag queen to win (and enter the final as well). It proves that the right song will work.
We almost did well we can, and I presume we did well on jury votes or else we would have scored only a few votes. The reasons why we didn't do well is due to high competition and because poor Molly's throat got a little sore before the final, meaning she didn't hit all those notes as supposed too. Also, thank you EBU for placing us after San Marino, since it bored the crowd so much, it may have affected us too. May I'd say that if Molly entered the song the year before, we would have reached top 10. We can't withdraw next year, it's important to celebrate 60 years of the contest. We did all we can, I would say bring that the national final next year, BUT, only using BBC Introducing acts. And make sure the song next year is modern.
I think this competition was fixed in one or two areas. Russia definitely! I knew the song would do well jury wise, but I think they may have cheated on televoting. I doubted they would get high marks from anybody due to not many countries liking them, except Belarus of course. Sweden may have also used everything to make sure they fail to host next year.
Overall, good year, good contest and I'm looking forward to next year.
Note that Poland came first in the UK televote and last with the UK jury (also true of semi-final). Strikes me as interesting that the professional view and popular view were so divergent. Or could the popular vote have been influenced by the UK's Polish diaspora?
I suspect it wasn't so much the UK's polish contingent rather more along the lines with butterchurning. As you say, very interesting. Suppose that goes to show the value of having the juries - we can hardly pull "BUT IT'S ABOUT THE SONG!!!" as an angry response to the rest of Europe when bluntly, it looks like we wanted to vote for sex appeal.
Another year, another post mortem. It was our best song for years but sadly Molly lost it with the performance - she was clearly nervous to start with and the backing singers were weak (though at least on stage). It deserved to do a little bit better than it did to get on the LHS of the scoreboard but it wouldn't have been a deserving winner.
This year I think we saw political voting of a different kind and it was great to see Austria picking up votes from across Europe (though usually the winner does!). At first it may have been a novelty but she had a decent song and absolutely nailed the performance (it was far better than the semi-final). Had it been a crap song and a weak performance the bearded lady wouldn't have troubled the leaderboard - but the three things just came together on the night for Austria and the win was much deserved.
The Netherlands deserved their placing too, though still don't understand how Sweden picked up so many votes - IMO it was the worst of the Scandanavian entries, and that includes Norways' song to commit suicide too.
As for the show itself - great effort on the whole from the Danish broadcasters - loved the graphics and the musics and the hosts were above the usual standard too (though Petra Mede is an impossible act to follow). Only thing I'd mark them down on is the interval act - the one during the voting was incredibly poor while just dragging last years winner on after the voting is a bit lazy.
As you say, very interesting. Suppose that goes to show the value of having the juries - we can hardly pull "BUT IT'S ABOUT THE SONG!!!" as an angry response to the rest of Europe when bluntly, it looks like we wanted to vote for sex appeal.