OFFICIAL THREAD OF THE 43RD WORLD HIT FESTIVAL
Burgendore, Britonisea
WHF NETWORK - OOC THREAD - DRAFT THREAD
20:00 (GBK+0)
For the third time nine editions, Britonisea was the host of the World Hit Festival - having recently hosted the 35th and 38th edition. Unlike the hosting of World Hit Festival 35, the reason as to why Britonisea is hosting the 43rd World Hit Festival is due to winning the previous edition of the World Hit Festival. In Altan, Kalosia, Evangeline Hope rose to victory, winning against a field of 19 other nations. She won with 34 points - with her song "When Our Eyes Meet" rising to Britonish #1 and eventually becoming the Christmas Number 1 for this year. BVC's headquarters in Junterapten decided that Burgendore would be a good city to host the competition as it would mark the first time that a contest would be held in Britonisea, but off the mainland. Might be a bit cold, though...
The show was about to start, and around twenty seconds before 20:00 Britonish time, the emission begun. The now 11 edition old 16-second World Hit Festival intro began the broadcast (similar to the 2011 Eurovision intro, culminating in the base WHF logo with the Britonish flag inside). The logo was frozen on the screen for around 4 seconds until it hit 20:00. You could hear the roar of the audience in the Burgen VEFEKOM Arena as the screen faded to black...
00:00 - What we were greeted to was the Burgen VEFEKOM Arena's house lights turning on. There was nothing to be seen in the arena. It was just an empty space. For the first few sections of the song, the camera zoomed out on the empty arena - it looked like a sad and sorry sight. It needed some TLC, and the fact that the 43rd World Hit Festival was coming to the VEFEKOM Arena meant that the arena was going to get all the love that it so deserves.
00:12 - As you hear the strings come in, we start to see people rush on to the middle of the VEFEKOM Arena, bringing large metal cranes and other work equipment to build the stage. The camera frequently switched from one angle to the next, with one camera being right next to the action happening. As the first VT continued, rather quickly, you started to see the shape of the stage. The floor of the stage was built and people watching this VT could see the full stage by 37 seconds.
00:37 - The LEDs were being put up on the stage now - quite a large display. You could see that they were doing some testing with the LEDs. While the LEDs were being tested out, they started to finish installing the lighting rigs around the stage and the camera tracks. There was a far away camera showing all the events happening. They even started to get the chairs out for people to sit on. They started to turn the walls around the VEFEKOM Arena from their dull magnolia colour to black by draping large black blankets across the stage.
01:02 - The stage seemed to be ready here, with the lights going crazy on the stage. The houselights were turned off by this point. There was somebody who, in fast motion, painted the floor black to make sure that it didn't look too bad on camera. The camera showed multiple different angles of the beautiful stage that was created by the Britonish. Things were starting to get really exciting now. For quite some time, you didn't see anybody - just glamorous shots of the stage.
01:26 - As soon as the music started to get more dramatic, however, this is when we started to notice that audience's started to fill the arena for the rehearsals. We then started to notice some of the acts participating at the 43rd World Hit Festival - with the flags of each of these nations appearing on the screen such as Polkopia's, Normandy and Picardy's and of course Britonisea's. You could still hear the audience cheering in the background, though they got suddenly loud when they saw the Britonish flag.
01:40 - The audience then started to leave the arena, the lights went down, and then even more people came in to the arena - but this time, the arena was filled up. It was some footage of the audience coming in right before the event. The camera started to get more hectic as more and more people came in. There even was a shot of the audience coming in from outside the arena, with the sun setting over the horizon and the snow beginning to fall outside.
02:00 - As the chimes rung through the arena, the last show was of the two hosts of the World Hit Festival walking on to the stage to a frantic crowd of fans. Evangeline Hope, the winner of the previous World Hit Festival alongside a well known Aloquirbic host Elias Auvergne-Lancey - who is the first Britonish host of any show to not be from "Britonisea" as such. The audience loved them as they walked on. Their names were on the screen for everyone to see along with their faces too. The two were standing like a metre apart from each other.
The two stood in lace for a couple of seconds before the audience started to calm down. The lights turned on the two hosts as they looked down at everyone waving the flags of the nations that they are supporting.
The audience had a large cheer before Evangeline Hope and Elias both looked at each other and smiled. They then looked back to the cameras which were positioned slightly over the audience. Evangeline Hope was the next one to speak.
Elias Auvergne-Lancey: And I am sure she needs no introduction, but this is our very own Evangeline Hope - we are your co-hosts for the evening ahead. We will be taking you through everything that's going to happen, including the songs, the voting...and even the singing.
Evangeline Hope: Yeah, we indeed will. Sorry. *Evangeline looks at herself in a mirror, quickly checking if her lipstick is solid red before continuining* Sorry, babes. I've got to look in check before we start tonight's proceedings!
Elias Auvergne-Lancey: Don't worry, Evangeline. It was because of you why we are here tonight. Last edition in Altan, Kalosia, our very own Evangeline Hope won the contest emphatically with her song "When Our Eyes Meet". I am 100% sure that song was ab[out me, wasn't it?
The audience started to whistle at the pair of them as Evangeline did a side-eye towards Elias. Elias looked at the audience, egging them on to make even more noise for the conversation that was happening on the stage.
The camera quickly turned towards some members of the Britonish audience, reacting to what Evangeline was saying but covering their eyes and widening their eyes.
Vote For Your Favourite: Here are all the nations that are competing at the 43rd World Hit Festival. One of these nations will walk home as victors.
The camera quickly cut to a full screen of above over the hosts talking. But as soon as Evangeline Hope stops speaking - the camera fades back to the two of them in the arena.
Elias Auvergne-Lancey: Right. You know there's something we're missing. A Nation's Parade! We have never started a World Hit Festival without having a World Hit Festival Nation's Parade!
Evangeline Hope: Oh yeah! Crap! This edition we're just going to have to make it real quick like. None of this five minute business. We are running on a strict schedule, here. So...
Elias Auvergne-Lancey and Evangeline Hope: LET'S WELCOME THE DELEGATIONS OF THE 43RD WORLD HIT FESTIVAL!
The camera zoomed outwards to show everybody in the arena before it cut to a behind the scenes image...