Huh. Haven’t thought of it till now, but the last couple of years, since 2014/2015 or so - they really did a thing out of putting the whole arena in darkness before the songs. Never thought about it. It seems so much more ”dramatic” now, especially with the booming sound effects, like in 2016.
I kinda noticed, but definitely not in 2014, but in 2019 and 2021. Also in 17 and 18, although this was more of a blue-ish kinda dark, as opposed to just black.
While it’s not noticeable a lot here, the 2011 heartbeat has been included in a ton more years since then, 2011 set a ton of standards for how the contest was hosted, how the stage was laid out, graphic design standards, visual continuity, getting the crowd and green room involved, etc without that year the contest likely wouldn’t have matured into the world class event it’s become today.
The stage design especially! I noticed it finally this year how the "satellite design" (with a smaller, connected stage B) is present since then! But also 2010 did a lot of influence. Since then, the overlay graphics flow naturally into the stage and are thus visible to the crowd and the people watching at home equally. (I remember Oslo 2010 having a net above the crowd so the flag projections were visible to them as well!)
What is the exact purpose of ‘Stage Ready’? Is it to inform: a) The performers b) The audience c) Everyone that the song is about to begin, or is it d) just something really cool that I look forward to each year, like the theme tune, graphics, scoreboard, etc? 😊
Since the 2006 one that was so impactful, I am always looking forward to seeing the "stage ready" of every new edition; it's one of the things that we know nothing about before the (first) semifinal and it becomes part of the identity of the edition.
One of the things that make 2013 so great is that they used the winner song of the previous year (Euphoria) to make the sound of stage ready. 2014 is also amazing and inspired other editions, as well some national selections.
Really the 2011 contest started the whole concept of "Stage Ready" I think. The contest before that didn't have that kind of a cleansing sound and visual effect
I would say that the first esc to feature the closing of the stage was Athens 2006. If you see, once the graphics inform about the song to be performed, the lights of the stage form a shape to "close the stage" and allow the song to start. In the recent years, we could say that the stage ready effect came back in 2012 in the form that in the LD screens the graphics are gradually vanishing. Though the effect featured no sound at all. The modern edition when the stage ready sound was applied was in Malmö 2013. So as you see, there had been a huge gap between 2006 and 2013 that both featured the effect. The between contests did not feature the effect at all. In order for a eurovision edition to be said to feature a stage ready effect, it simply has to apply what the word supposes - an effect, of the lights and the stage - not just the going off the lights as you switch the lights in your house for example. ❤
For 2022, I use would the semi finals because for the finals, the camera that was supposed to be used for the pre-performance screens didn't move a centimeter.
2014 changed a lot of things! Amazing stage, amazing visuals, great esthetic, wonderful innovations! Congrats to your engineers and designers! Denmark brought the weight to this contest regarding stage design, tv production, camerawork and so on. Greetings from Romania!
Sweden really brings the A game to hosting Eurovision. Not that other countries do it wrong (I love the production for 2021 and 2023 for example), but they do it in a way that feels very cohesive and that gets me thinking "why it wasn't done before?".
this is exactly the thing i'm thinking about now. It almost seems that the show production is already perfected to the max, so I wonder what will swedes come up with this time. like, the 2013 contest felt so different from the previous ones, though they weren't the first to indroduce the all-stage ready stuff, still the design and all the setting seemed (and still seems) so... fresh?? AND the 2016 complete title change was obviously a game-changing move, i mean NO ONE has used those numbered rectangle plates eversince lol i am so delighted and excited
True, several editions made a transition from an era to another one, 2011 being one of them! I'd count in this list 2005 (going out of the late-90s vibes to something a bit more modern), 2009 (bring a properly modern Eurovision show for the first time) and 2016 (first edition of contemporary Eurovision)
some of these giving me literal heart palpitations xD all jokes aside, 2004 is my favorite - brought us the iconic eurovision logo + simple yet effective 🥰 the only thing i'd change was the city silhouette (?) background (never noticed that before tho) edit: 2010 also had a classic look
@@Tuxpu it wasn't broken cause they used it for Diodato's performance and for other performances. It was simply too slow to be in the original position at the end of every single performance.
@@diegonegroni8219 "Not working as intended" practically means broken. They could not make the sun move as quickly as needed. And even when it did spin it never did a 360° turn. But since it was always at the same position, they could have easily made a stage ready animation with the sun.
It was the most original but of course you're such a mediocre person that probably you're used to boring and basic stuffs. How useless, there's no shade from you, just racism
2011 was infinitely versatile because it gave the camera so much space to work with, it pretty much pioneered the immersive LED wall as an aspect of stage design, where 2009 (which had literally 2/3 of the worlds LED panels on the stage) may have used them a little, 2011 made it an art form, just look at Finland’s entry that year, it was incredible use of the massive 20m high wall
@@astrovisionbroadcastingunion was watching that yesterday and thinking the same thing, the wall was immersive and used well, it’s something I really think doesn’t get valued nearly as much as it should.
My guess is that 2022 was supposed to light up the stage but we all know what happened.. so they just showed the animation on screen. It looked really poor
The biggest disappointment with 2022 isn't just the ruined sun. They even ruined their transition! Like why wasn't the camera like in 2019/2021 during every entry transition? It would match with the sun if they had done that! Some entries did do that, but it wasn't everyone and it really makes it look bad...
No, He Meant Like Both Of The Stages Have The Same Moving Half Circle Behind The Performers Except One Works For Every Performance While The Other Broke.
I was asking myself the same question. Maybe bc we're seeing her in a augmented reality esque fake house at first, as opposed to seeing the main stage, but on the other hand, where still seeing the intro with the triangles in the colors of the Maltese flag and the general info about the entry (title, interpret, writers, composers) in the beginning. I don't know, but I'm curious.
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2023 Stage Ready: czcams.com/video/hWTmE4WNme0/video.html
Huh. Haven’t thought of it till now, but the last couple of years, since 2014/2015 or so - they really did a thing out of putting the whole arena in darkness before the songs. Never thought about it. It seems so much more ”dramatic” now, especially with the booming sound effects, like in 2016.
I kinda noticed, but definitely not in 2014, but in 2019 and 2021. Also in 17 and 18, although this was more of a blue-ish kinda dark, as opposed to just black.
2013 stage ready sound sounded like the opening of "Euphoria".
I LOVE the darkness with the flags! It’s so cool 🥰
@@ArcticDragon97 that’s exactly what it was
Honestly I thought this was the norm, but looking back I guess it's a relatively newer trend! I love it!
I like how 2021 was so simplistic but also they way The Netherlands did it was just spot on
2007. Nostalgia
2011. New era
2012. The best
2014. New frontiers
2015. Interesting
2021. Spacious comfortable
I really love 2019 and 2021 transitions
The first “Stage Ready” with sound and lights it was in 2006 😍😍 1:02
Really proud of my country for inventing the stage ready thing. Never expected it from us
@@kjkqdnkjqd-ji3ed No, el primero que tuvo sonido fue el del diseño de plastilina (2003) se nota un sonido de papel o algo así)
While it’s not noticeable a lot here, the 2011 heartbeat has been included in a ton more years since then, 2011 set a ton of standards for how the contest was hosted, how the stage was laid out, graphic design standards, visual continuity, getting the crowd and green room involved, etc without that year the contest likely wouldn’t have matured into the world class event it’s become today.
The stage design especially! I noticed it finally this year how the "satellite design" (with a smaller, connected stage B) is present since then! But also 2010 did a lot of influence. Since then, the overlay graphics flow naturally into the stage and are thus visible to the crowd and the people watching at home equally. (I remember Oslo 2010 having a net above the crowd so the flag projections were visible to them as well!)
2002-2008 and 2013-2015 were the golden age of flag designs. Back then, flags were shaped in the most imaginative ways possible.
2007. Nostalgia
2011. New era
2012. The best
2014. New frontiers
2015. Interesting
2021. Spacious and comfortable
I just LOVE the colour palette of 2009
What is the exact purpose of ‘Stage Ready’? Is it to inform:
a) The performers
b) The audience
c) Everyone
that the song is about to begin,
or is it d) just something really cool that I look forward to each year, like the theme tune, graphics, scoreboard, etc? 😊
C and d
All
It's like a "wake up the song is starting" thing, it also has this "no turning back now" feel to it.
c), d) and e) : install a potential prop and allowing the artists just a small amount of time to focus and get ready for the show
Since the 2006 one that was so impactful, I am always looking forward to seeing the "stage ready" of every new edition; it's one of the things that we know nothing about before the (first) semifinal and it becomes part of the identity of the edition.
Me: Waiting For The 2023 Stage Ready For ESC 2023
Totally agree! The stage ready artworks are always something I look forward to in any ESC, and even JESC edition, glad to see I'm nt the only one ^^
2012 was so cool with the flags over the Crystal hall, unfortunately you didn't showed it. Still, such an amazing video!
Thanks! Sorry that i didn't include it
I really like the 2019, 2014, 2012 (with the flags projected over the Crystal Hall) and 2022.
One of the things that make 2013 so great is that they used the winner song of the previous year (Euphoria) to make the sound of stage ready. 2014 is also amazing and inspired other editions, as well some national selections.
omg never realised this till now 🤯
2014 is the best in everything it was literally the year eurovision peaked
Omg I never noticed it but you're right! It's the intro from Euphoria
2021 just hits different
Really the 2011 contest started the whole concept of "Stage Ready" I think. The contest before that didn't have that kind of a cleansing sound and visual effect
I would say that the first esc to feature the closing of the stage was Athens 2006. If you see, once the graphics inform about the song to be performed, the lights of the stage form a shape to "close the stage" and allow the song to start.
In the recent years, we could say that the stage ready effect came back in 2012 in the form that in the LD screens the graphics are gradually vanishing. Though the effect featured no sound at all.
The modern edition when the stage ready sound was applied was in Malmö 2013.
So as you see, there had been a huge gap between 2006 and 2013 that both featured the effect. The between contests did not feature the effect at all. In order for a eurovision edition to be said to feature a stage ready effect, it simply has to apply what the word supposes - an effect, of the lights and the stage - not just the going off the lights as you switch the lights in your house for example. ❤
2014 ❤ Coolest venue so far
Agreed
The diamond in the middle of the screen -> fits perfectly with everything you see of the arena with the stage and greenroom. Its magical!
I love the 2021 one
Same
2018 was so so good
It looks like 2006 was the first year graphics were used for the cue, was ignored for several years, then 2011 reintroduced it with sound.
The difference between the old fashion title cards and post-2016 artworks is fun to see! Definitely better nowadays :D
For 2022, I use would the semi finals because for the finals, the camera that was supposed to be used for the pre-performance screens didn't move a centimeter.
The 2014 is the best for me. Maybe because im Danish but still a crazy scene
2014 changed a lot of things! Amazing stage, amazing visuals, great esthetic, wonderful innovations! Congrats to your engineers and designers! Denmark brought the weight to this contest regarding stage design, tv production, camerawork and so on. Greetings from Romania!
Sweden really brings the A game to hosting Eurovision. Not that other countries do it wrong (I love the production for 2021 and 2023 for example), but they do it in a way that feels very cohesive and that gets me thinking "why it wasn't done before?".
this is exactly the thing i'm thinking about now. It almost seems that the show production is already perfected to the max, so I wonder what will swedes come up with this time. like, the 2013 contest felt so different from the previous ones, though they weren't the first to indroduce the all-stage ready stuff, still the design and all the setting seemed (and still seems) so... fresh?? AND the 2016 complete title change was obviously a game-changing move, i mean NO ONE has used those numbered rectangle plates eversince lol i am so delighted and excited
I love 2021the most
Sweden always pioneered when it came to hosting
2011 set up alot of modern standards we have today its actually crazy!
True, several editions made a transition from an era to another one, 2011 being one of them! I'd count in this list 2005 (going out of the late-90s vibes to something a bit more modern), 2009 (bring a properly modern Eurovision show for the first time) and 2016 (first edition of contemporary Eurovision)
some of these giving me literal heart palpitations xD
all jokes aside, 2004 is my favorite - brought us the iconic eurovision logo + simple yet effective 🥰 the only thing i'd change was the city silhouette (?) background (never noticed that before tho)
edit: 2010 also had a classic look
Thank you for the 800 likes!
Eurovision 2023 Stage Ready Clip - czcams.com/users/shortszKFFxKdszHE?feature=share
Melhores postcards pra mim são do Eurovision de 2016 e 2018
I forgot how good some of these where. 2014 changed the game. But 2019 on have been next level
I think that the 2014 CPH Denmark stage started the entire stage competition. Allthough som stages do have resemblence to eachother.
No shade but Italy's 2022 has been the worst stage in decades. My favs were 2003, 2006, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2018
It was a little bit of a fail considering the broken sun too
@@Tuxpu it wasn't broken cause they used it for Diodato's performance and for other performances. It was simply too slow to be in the original position at the end of every single performance.
@@diegonegroni8219 they had enough time to test and to calculate :P
@@diegonegroni8219 "Not working as intended" practically means broken. They could not make the sun move as quickly as needed. And even when it did spin it never did a 360° turn. But since it was always at the same position, they could have easily made a stage ready animation with the sun.
It was the most original but of course you're such a mediocre person that probably you're used to boring and basic stuffs. How useless, there's no shade from you, just racism
2019&2021 were the best 👍👍👍👍
the butterfly aaaaa
I still think 2014 has the most memorable sound and animation - but I love how natural 2019 felt
In 2012,baku crystall hall glowed in the color of the artists country
The best one for sure it was in 2003!
Back when Eurovision was creative
The arenas back then were so much more bigger and the stages looked more creative. Oh well it's the 2020s now. Do like the 2024 stage design.
2019 the best!
Best Stage:
Dusseldorf 2011
Baku 2012
Copenhagen 2014
Stockholm 2016
Rotterdam 2021
I agree :D
2011 was infinitely versatile because it gave the camera so much space to work with, it pretty much pioneered the immersive LED wall as an aspect of stage design, where 2009 (which had literally 2/3 of the worlds LED panels on the stage) may have used them a little, 2011 made it an art form, just look at Finland’s entry that year, it was incredible use of the massive 20m high wall
@@Underestimated37 Every staging looked fantastic in 2011 with that gigantic screen, 2021 is right there too with the same philosophy
@@astrovisionbroadcastingunion was watching that yesterday and thinking the same thing, the wall was immersive and used well, it’s something I really think doesn’t get valued nearly as much as it should.
Best stage for me 2012
I wouldn't call 2001 a stage ready, cuz they started the song right away.
And 1999
By stage ready I think he meant the title cards/artworks
I think because the 2012 graphics were SO rushed they decided to have an audio sting for 2013 and beyond.
My guess is that 2022 was supposed to light up the stage but we all know what happened.. so they just showed the animation on screen. It looked really poor
Como es posible que el 19 de enero de este año tengas el cha cha cha de Finlandia 🇫🇮 si aún no estaba Eurovisión ?😳
Cha Cha Cha fue lanzado el 17 de enero en el canal de clasificación finlandés (UMK)
I read “ the evolution of sage ready in evolution” 💀💀💀
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Thank you, Malmo 2013, to inteoduce the stage read y with a sound ❤
The biggest disappointment with 2022 isn't just the ruined sun. They even ruined their transition! Like why wasn't the camera like in 2019/2021 during every entry transition? It would match with the sun if they had done that! Some entries did do that, but it wasn't everyone and it really makes it look bad...
Italians are lazy and disorganized. I expected that.
It's because the camera broke and got stuck in one place during the grand final. Truly, everything that could go wrong went wrong...
@@andreas8340 they didn't have a single camera on the entire arena, it was never lined up with the sun they just didn't bother
@@andreas8340 And I thought 2017 had problems... 2022 was the worst hosting in decades
2013 and 14 really pioneered it 14 perfected it. 2022 was so bad didnt even point camera at stage
2021 Stage ready and 2019
2022 went right back to the bottom lmao
2013 2014 and 2015 were the best
2016, 2014, 2021 best stage
2009 and 2014 the best
2008❤
ESC 2017 Ukraine didn't have a sound to start the songs such as 2016 and 2018... I feel disappointed for that.
Yeah it was so bland
Imo it's one of the worst. Stagings were inexistant and that massive arch served to nothing for mst of them + obstructed the view @@_isak_
@@astrovisionbroadcastingunionI respect your opinion but I still think it's the best.
At firsti read revolution💀
How were you so early
@@Tuxpu i saw you Post a video and i clicked on it
Arena 1999 and 2022 its actually same
No, 1999 was in Jerusalem and 2022 in Turin
No, He Meant Like Both Of The Stages Have The Same Moving Half Circle Behind The Performers Except One Works For Every Performance While The Other Broke.
Crazy that they managed to make this technology work in 1999 but Italians couldn't in 2022 @@bunzobunny1642
the 2022 clip was the only one with the wrong framing
🥰🥰🥰
Why Albania for 2019 and not Malta, out of curiosity?
I was asking myself the same question. Maybe bc we're seeing her in a augmented reality esque fake house at first, as opposed to seeing the main stage, but on the other hand, where still seeing the intro with the triangles in the colors of the Maltese flag and the general info about the entry (title, interpret, writers, composers) in the beginning. I don't know, but I'm curious.
It was a little mistake, i clipped the stage readys from the full shows and every year meant to be first since it's easier
@@Tuxpu I thought it was cause the audio of the hosts leaked during Malta's stage ready sequence 😂
@@Tuxpu oh, thanks for clarification.
0:16 SIREEN
Lol
Difficult to tell them apart since 2004
They are so perfectly cutted
As a spectator at these massive venues there may be atmosphere but what do you see? VERY LITTLE sadly.
Yeah
*TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 - Eurovision Jerusalem 1999
0:11 - Eurovision Stockholm 2000
0:21 - Eurovision Copenhagen 2001
0:26 - Eurovision Tallinn2002
0:33 - Eurovision Riga 2003
0:43 - Eurovision Istanbul 2004
0:51 - Eurovision Kyiv 2005
1:01 - Eurovision Athens 2006
1:09 - Eurovision Helsinki 2007
1:13 - Eurovision Belgrade 2008
1:21 - Eurovision Moscow 2009
1:28 - Eurovision Oslo 2010
1:32 - Eurovision Düseeldorf 2011
1:42 - Eurovision Baku 2012
1:47 - Eurovision Malmö 2013
1:55 - Eurovision Copenhagen 2014
2:03 - Eurovision Vienna 2015
2:10 - Eurovision Stockholm 2016
2:20 - Eurovision Kyiv 2017
2:27 - Eurovision Lisbon 2018
2:37 - Eurovision Tel Aviv 2019
2:45 - Eurovision Rotterdam 2021
2:53 - Eurovision Turin 2022
Like for the outro song!
Really glad Israel started the AR trend.
2010 Eurovision already had bunch of AR effects, but not in stage readys
since 2016 it seems almost sacrilege to show the actual flag of the competing country
Yeah, and i'm really not a fan of the font and font colours that they used
Ukraine didn't have a stage ready sound
Why is this Cha Cha cha song at the end?
?
Bro It's Because It's 2023 For Eurovision 2023
2012 was coloring the concert hall (outside) to the country's flag
I know
To be honest, what’s the sense of these sound effects? It just feels superfluous to me and doesn’t lift the show up in any way
In my opinion the sound make the stage readys a little bit better
Ни год, ни название страны-организатора, ни название арены, ни нормальной картинки. Просто дизлайк. 👎
Идея хорошая, но исполнение отвратное