Eurovision as Combinatoire: the complex construction of the lighting and video in the Eurovision Song Contest

Hunt, Nick (2024) Eurovision as Combinatoire: the complex construction of the lighting and video in the Eurovision Song Contest. In: Designing Eurovision: Performance Scenography on an International Stage. Routledge. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This chapter examines how lighting and video are used in the staging of the Eurovision Song Contest. With a focus on Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, the first section examines how the lighting and video designers manage the competing demands of multiple creative directors, and use control and communication technologies to coordinate the elements of lighting, video, scenery, cameras and the performers themselves, to create a live broadcast that is, in large part, predetermined. The chapter goes on to examine how lighting and video are used to compose the pictures seen by the viewer. With reference to specific examples, it argues that the visual presentation of Eurovision draws on the conventions of studio-based television light entertainment, music concerts, and pop videos to create a complex, hybrid form – a combinatoire – that challenges our expectations of live music broadcasts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Eurovision, lighting, video, design, technology, television, music.
Depositing User:	Professor Nick Hunt
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2025 13:32
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2025 13:32
URI:	https://bruford.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/70

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