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Vi är en samling människor som har valt att lysa upp tillvaron för andra genom att plocka fram konstiga mojänger som blinkar ur svarta lådor och hänga upp dessa på märkliga ställen för er förnöjelse. I denna anspråkslösa blogg ska vi försöka förmedla hur våra dagar och nätter kan te sig under Melodifestivalen 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 samt under Eurovision Song Contest 2013 och 2016. Nu utökar vi denna blogg att även omfatta 2019 års upplaga av Melodifestivalen! Kort sagt, hur har vi det när cirkusen kommer till stan? Vi ska försöka att hålla bloggen aktuell, men ber om överseende om vi inte hinner uppdatera den varje dag, vi kommer att ha en del annat att göra också. Hoppas ni finner detta underhållande och vi önskar er trevlig läsning! Varma hälsningar, Ljuscrewet Melodifestivalen 2018.

fredag 3 maj 2013

Join the dark side you must.....



It´s your destiny.

One of the Hippo operators, Mikko Linnavouri, 
a.k.a - one of the finnpajsare - 
is very talented with his photoshop 
and keeps us in constant fear of 
what is going to show up on our screen....

No one is safe!

This is just one of the posters he made for us, of us!

But i´m happy, he made me into Han Solo!

Moving along.....



Bzzzt....

Blah, blah, blah....

Some "nerd" facts to take in....

There will be a test later!

Sound

5 sound consoles 3 MIDAS XL 8 and 2 MIDAS Pro9
210 speakers, Nexo Geo T and L-Acoustics dV-dosc
All speakers are managed through LAB LM 44 & LM 26
48 hand and headmics, all are Sennheiser 9000 series
16 In Ear system with 100 receivers, Sennheiser 2000 IEM
2 Macbook Pro machines running Waves plug-ins
2 Macbook Pro machines running Cubase
4 operators for PA & monitor
20 sound engineers to run the show

Stage

220 square metre specially made stage surface for performances
The circumference of the centre Mainstage area is 38 metres
The perimeter of the stage is 207 metres
Each arch weighs 7 tons and measures 13 metres in height
The projection wall is 43 metres wide and 8 metres tall

Rigging

3500 metres of truss
600 rigging points
159.6 tons rigged in the roof, the maximum capacity of the roof is 160 tons
40 km of signal & camera cables
50 km of power cables

Power Supply

6 Megawatt generator farm
3.5 Megawatt generator power used per day
3000L Ecopar used per day

Pyrotechnics

32 Fireball machines
24 Fireflame machines
6 Heavy smoke machines
4 Wind machines
3000 Pyro effects used during the show
100 kg Snow
100 kg Confetti

Lighting

1283 lighting fixtures
800 moving lights
14 follow spots
4 weeks of virtual programming
4 weeks of live programming
2 lighting designers
4 lighting operators
12 grandMA II Light consoles, 6 live and 6 in back-up
24500 control channels

Video

28 Barco HDQ 40 projectors, the world’s largest video projector
2 Barco HDF W26 projectors
4 Barco FLM HD20 projectors
4 Barco FLM R22+ projectors
8 Barco SLM R12 projectors
1 Barco Encore Image processing system
14 Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers
350 square meters 3D video mapping surface as a back-drop
1 media content designer
4 digital content designers
2 video operators
23 cameras to capture the action from all angles
2 multi camera directors

Other Facts

Equipment needed 95 transport trucks to deliver (25 stage only)
6878 hotel nights
3 weeks for rigging all equipment
250 show crew

Well...


...we're alive.
Sorry for the lack of updates, the last 4 days have been... Let's just say slightly buzy....
Bare with us.
By the way....
In a multilingual production like this, sometimes there can be confusion...