The Story of Eurovision 2022 🇮🇹 (& the broken stage!)

[@Jme_hde]

The hosts introducing each participant was one of the FEW good ideas RAI actually had, and I will always find it infuriating how they called it a “level playing field” when multiple participants had to completely overhaul their performances last minute because they decided to keep the Sun in a “fixed position” whilst others weren’t affected at all, not exactly level. It will always boggle me why they didn’t keep the Sun on the LED panel side, not having enough time to make new graphics was a poor excuse.

[@ibim1oreo633]

I was hoping for another breakdown from you on this year's show. You absolutely nailed it. Thank you so much for this detailed insight into the production. I definetely learned a lot!

[@vdan3821]

Wheyy! These are a highlight of the Eurovision year! Great video, will rewatch as soon as its finished processing for me, 360p isn't doing it justice:[

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

...and we are now (hopefully) in HD or better! 4K on its way...

[@vdan3821]

@@FernandsLiveShowShow Looking perfect now!:)

[@DdumbaStyle]

This channel is so underrated

[@eu-RON-vision]

Such a brilliant, funny and professional video, I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you Fernand ❤ (It is just going really fast so I had to stop every few seconds to get everything that pops out so please if you could go a bit slower for the next one😊)

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

My pleasure! And especially from you with your awesome coverage as well. Noted for next time! I think that's the joy of online videos, you can always go back and watch again, but feedback always and happily welcomed! 🙌

[@eu-RON-vision]

@@FernandsLiveShowShow ❤️

[@bassclef__]

What is up with you having 1100 subscribers and not 250 times that? Absolutely stellar production man.

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

I know right!? Haha 😂 thanks so much for your very kind words, here's hoping for my 250x subscriber count any day now!

[@tourmaline07]

Completely agree . Broadcast tech is pretty niche in terms of interests , but even so I'd thought there'd be lots of interest given the scale of Eurovision and also the background Fernand has as a presenter/producer (look at his website) . I have a feeling that will change quite a bit when he gets to do his Eurovision 2023 retrospective mind , I can only imagine the sort of things he's privy to right now but which we have to wait a few weeks to see unfold ;)

[@cianomahony]

Great video, this deserves far more views.

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Ah cheers! Thanks so much for watching!

[@benjabustamante]

amazing video!

[@Svayaatttt]

Thanks for your amazing job !!!

[@squelchedotter]

Love this one! Great vid!

[@xweetokfairy]

Great video. Thanks for the insights!

[@jords4269]

Such an amazing video, very high quality. Thank you for your hard work!

[@Paolo3480]

Thanks for your wonderful video. Unfortunately you didn't mention the massive job done by Mario Catapano, light designer and director of photography, who comes directly from the N Sanremo's Festivals he did in the last years. He did a wonderful job to integrate additional lights to complement the slow turning sun. I believe from the lighting aspect, Turin was one of the best, if not the best, together with Rotterdam 2021. A/R in Rotterdam was better, but they of course benefitted for the 2 years preparation and the company Faber Visuals integrated into the NEP company. As Italian, passionate of TV production, despite some evident camera mistakes, I am proud of the results. I am sure the mix of RAI cameramen and free lance cameramen from. NEP Italy, probably not used to work with Forzano/Biondani didn't pay off. Hope RAI will be able to host it again in future and try to make it better than this time. Regarding the famous "broken sun", my opinion is "only the brave dare" . The others keep it simple but boring. Thank you Francesca Montinaro for the wondeful job and the great design innovations on the stage. Thanks to highlight the fact that Irene Castrogiovanni was the first lady in the usually masculine task of steadycamer. Italy taught lessons here, also to Nordic countries.

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Thanks for your comment and great tip about Mario Catapano! Lighting Designer/ DOPs should get more credit, you're right, especially as the lights on the sun truly were dazzling. And the sun really was a good idea: Francesca Montinaro has some beautiful ideas as seen in previous Sanremos; I was particularly impressed by the depth of inspiration in the stage design. Despite social media going crazy (as usual lol) I think Rai and Italy should be proud of pulling off a production in a whole new age, with big dreams and ideas, despite any errors it was a nice production indeed. Should Italy win again in the next decade I'm confident their next production would be flawless.

[@ojetefletero]

Call me boring, but I prefer a stage that works as intended

[@LUCHTHANS4]

@@ojetefletero Didnt the stage work as intended, you just didnt get the BONUS of a turning sun?

[@adrianromero92]

Lo siento mucho pero el año de eurovisión en Italia para los espectadores que lo ven desde casa fue un desastre. Y me gustaría explicar los motivos. El sol, fue un error y una chapuza, hay años en los que se mueven pantallas, o cuelgan paneles y no se producen fallos. En Italia pasó y el no poder solucionarlo fue horrible. A nivel realización de grafismos también se produjeron fallos, tardaban en entrar el nombre del país por ejemplo... y la mala elección de donde poner el nombre del país en el desfile de banderas (menos es más). Por otro lado la cantidad de fallos en las cámaras, el horrible diseño de los drones "iluminando" a los cantantes en zonas de Italia quedaba super cutre y con mala calidad... el agua que caís de la cascada no era uniforme en absoluto, parecía que fallaba (mucho mejor un estanque como en Dinamarca), el suelo era un desastre, no solo por que se veía siempre sucio y translucido, también por el horrible contraste con el suelo no led. No se si me olvido algo... pero realmente fue muy malo.

[@ojetefletero]

@@LUCHTHANS4 it wasn't supposed to be a bonus tho was it?

[@luigisalvino5411]

EBU always is and still killing the contest

[@kasardas9413]

This year they did it "finally"

[@DimitrisSartzetakis]

The crane cameras were number 9 and 10. And about the camera cuts, Austria had 114 because of the blinking effect it used. Germany also had 18 I think

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Very true, they were 9 and 10! Wrongly animated camera number digit there, thanks for pointing that out!

[@manolocorp]

Awesome video!

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Thank you! Super glad you enjoyed!

[@cameronclarkhull]

really interesting video :)

[@rexx9152]

10:12 and North Macedonia had same camera shot

[@spyrosbueno20]

Hey to all out here! Glad to see all the great comments! Can I at least say something please? I feel as though this could have been one of the very best editions of the contest, but due to technical problems and lack of "hard and professional work" maybe(?), the outcome of the show was not as expected even by the Italians! I feel that that the Italians had a wonderful idea abou this year's contest, which finally we never saw on TV! I feel kind of sorry for the Italians, but really I know they could have held a spectacular show if it weren't for any last result! All the Best!!!

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Thanks for your comment! I'm a firm believer that should Italy win again very soon, all their experience producing this one will come in handy to create an even more spellbinding show! I know they can do it 😉

[@Lamnia95]

Need to make sure we bring Dan Shipton back for staging for the UK next year. If he was behind lucy’s song as well…he definitely has brought the best fort he UK

[@yanisp.4892]

Very interesting ! You got a new suscriber ;)

[@kimothemo]

Should focus on audio as well. Great breakdown, the teams behind the scenes are world class

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Hi! Yes audio being so very very important: will aim to take a look at this in my 2023 coverage!

[@Mat-cl4vx]

The opening ceremony was really bad. Whole creative idea is subpar, at best. Many director errors where camera views were switched in irregular manner, to cameramen not being ready and director cutting to him, resulting in jagged experience. There were also many cuts to audience (I really hated the static camera that had wide shot of the whole arena, it was so boring and unimportant), which usually means bad timing on the director's part, as cutting to audience is a crutch. The insane voice processing (and most likely autotune) on the guests of interval acts was also quite sad. Overall the stage design was really good (though I hate the idea of having water feature as part of the stage - it just feels wrong and with compression algorithms the water on video becomes all pixelated). Quite sad the botanical garden was not incorporated more as an important piece of set design. It was not showcased during the broadcast in full, like at all. There were some errors in performances of countries (multiple times you could see the steadicam operator).

[@boytiti5446]

Eurovision is a huge business, and some corrupt Nordic administrative staff are allowing outside camera companies to participate, which is not working well with RAI staff. The majority of the cameramen are foreigners, with only the superwoman Italian camerawoman performing admirably.

[@PyroKalfje]

I and a lot ofhers including my classmates , friends , family etc are very dispointed in de production quality this year There where so many faults , problems in the production. We saw steadycam operators in the shot, out of focused shots, zoom faults , random movements in the shot. Also the large led screens had extemly out of sync of each panel. A Technisicion. Was flight in from the netherlands to fix this problem, because People in itily doesnt know how to fix there own panels.

[@Paolo3480]

You mentioned there is your interview with Twan on KZbin, but didn't find it.

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Hi Sandro! Thanks for stopping by. The interview is now here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2XKpXl9rp2Cq7c

[@j.t.5178]

The best explonation for 2022 is the description for anything Italian, "Beautiful design, terrible engineering." However if there's one thing I give RAI credit, it was a HUGE improvement compared to 1991.

[@squelchedotter]

enjoying the 144p because it hasn't finished processing yet :P

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

Haha - love this! Just wait until the 4K version has completed, it'll blow your mind!

[@squelchedotter]

@@FernandsLiveShowShow I would recommend uploading it as private first and waiting for it to finish processing in the future to avoid getting a bunch of snide comments about it every time :P It helps you get better watch time too, lots of people click away to wait for a better resolution and then forget to come back (including me, lol)

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

@@squelchedotter All fixed now - thank goodness - enjoy the higher resolution!

[@squelchedotter]

@@FernandsLiveShowShow Might want to make a community post to remind anyone who clicked away!

[@no1fanofthepals]

@@squelchedotter similar thing happened to me with subtitles. When it was first uploaded there were none so i just forgot about it. I only remembered it because of the community post

[@Spotless-guy]

7:27 here are the guys that should be fired…. Ehhmmm… Israel dancebreack

[@no1fanofthepals]

really enjoying the no subtitles!! /s seriously add subtitles as soon as you can. At least do auto generated ones

[@FernandsLiveShowShow]

...and we have subtitles! Hope you enjoy!

[@deneml3836]

2024 please

[@Spotless-guy]

Israel 2022 on top

[@ponyclub3198]

This Eurovision edition fell much short of 2021 and 2019. The worst part is not the Sun (they should have turned to Jerusalem 1979 to see how it's done), but rather the zero competition value to it, as Ukraine could have brought 3 mins of silence and still "win". I saw the competition once, but that's not something I came back to since.

[@boytiti5446]

But the most watched, "THE SHOW OF THE DECADE," outperformed all previous shows, as well as the most bankable figure gains, trending across all social media platforms. What else is there? what to do with 2019, dried and annoying show.

[@therealdutchidiot]

@@boytiti5446 It only outperformed because every year outperforms the previous year. The show itself wasn't great, though many songs were.

[@NataliaReut]

Río, design eurovidenia 2022 was Río.