OOC Thread | Host Bid (including Stage Details)
Opening Act | Interval Act | Halfway through the voting | Results
The words "MRX presents" appear on a pitch black sky, punctuated by stars. The words fade out and the camera pans downwards to show a rural house on the top of a hill on a clear, starry night. We then cut inside and the music (set to this tune) begins to play as a mother kisses her six-year-old child goodnight on the forehead as he goes to sleep and she tucks her in, the camera constantly pointed at the child, wearing dark blue pyjamas with pictures of children's stars and moons on them. She walks away as the camera tightens on the boy's face. When she has left the room, he slowly gets up and goes over to the window as the camera cuts to a low-down shot from behind, capturing the boy looking upwards at the starry sky. The camera eases in on the stars before cutting to be in front of the boy in medium shot. He moves across to under his bed and pulls out a little box. Inside there is assorted paraphernalia as he takes out a large piece of cardboard sitting at the bottom of it, along with a pair of scissors. Sitting in front of the window, with the moonlight shining down on him, he starts cutting the cardboard into various shapes and re-assembling them on the floor, making several nice patterns. He places several pieces together in a circle, which almost looks like a vortex, and with a gentle explosion of light (at 2:08 in the music), the pieces assemble as one and the circle of WorldVision that encompasses WorldVision 77. There is a circular gap in the middle of the cardboard, but this is now filled with an orange light. The boy is encapsulated as the circle moves out of the window and flies across the night sky, spinning as it goes.
We first see, inside a cloud, which has the text "Proletariat City 29", a flashback of WorldVision 29 in Communist Quinntopia, Mister X's début, as we see (but do not hear) the members of Entourage performing "Na La Na La Na", Mister X's first ever entry. The logo slows down as it passes it, then speeds up, past clouds labelled "Restnov 30", "Celeste 31", and "Gronbis 32". The logo then slows down again when passing the cloud labelled "Carnise 33", showing a glimpse of Filius Deorum's disappointment in the greenroom as he loses the lead he had held all the way through the voting. The cloud then intercuts Filius's disappointment with celebrations of the winning Kishraeli entry from WorldVision 33. It then zooms past "Thatcher City 34", "Fontvielle 35", "Mullhipu 36", "E-Miezkom 37", "Peeto 38", "Rowland 39", "Rokkestat 40", "Quickenden 41", "Caen 42", "Monterra 43", "Yaru-Bzheriut 44", and "Lavington 45".
The clouds then stop as the logo spins out of camera shot, and some text comes across the starry night sky (at 3:20 in the music):
The logo comes back into shot, and then lingers on a cloud that says "Oreo City 46". Inside the cloud is MIster Xian entrant Owen Roberts shaking his head solemnly. He was almost on the verge of tears. Oreo City and WorldVision 46 was one of Mister X's very worst results, at least compared to pre-contest expectations. Roberts finished 15th. The logo then moves on to "Carnise 47", where Will Carter is in an even worse state, in tears as nation after nation gives him nul points, only finishing 14th. But then the logo moves across the sky further, and (at 3:38 in the music) it finds this text in the night sky:
The logo then zooms past "Phoda 48", "Prescott 49", "Kasin 50", and "Kyvivre 51", before pausing on "Langtree 52", depicting the 2nd place finish for Filius Deorum. The soundless flashback of snippet of his feel-good performance followed by the glimpse of 2nd place on the scoreboard is enough for the logo, which moves further around the clouds (at 4:10). It passes "Cherbourg 53", "Konikstaat 54", and "Dreiichibu-u-Mousiki 55", before it takes a nosedive, zooming all over Majorium, before pulling out of Majorium to go back into the house of the little boy (at 4:44). He is attracted to it and slowly moves towards the logo. It gradually drifts away from him, playing cat and mouse with the boy. He is excited and thrilled in his pyjamas, as only a six-year-old can be. He finally manages to touch it (at 5:34).
As he does so, the music provides something of a fanfare with the brass section: the camera zooms into his eyes, into his very brain, into his soul. He has been granted the access to the secrets of the contest: he sees the delights of the WorldVision Song Contest. We see inside his head - the new information of what has been imparted into his very soul.
Every pyrotechnic, every note, every dance, every song.
And he loves it.
His eyes get wider and wider. He loves it more and more. He holds on tighter to the logo and all of a sudden, it flies off again, carrying the boy with it effortlessly (6:00 in the music). We zoom back along the Heath River, the camera now showing the journey from the logo's point of view, before, as the camera slowly pulls out of the logo whilst it continues to whizz past clouds: "Pacretana 56", "Machievelihe 57", "Kaminkoboy 58", "Thatcher City 59", "Hajenired 60", and "Whorang 61", before finally coming to rest on "Ylfa 62" (at 6:24 in the music). It shows Filius Deorum's triumphant victory with WorldVision classic "Why, Why, Why?". And then, all of a sudden (6:36), the logo flies past the next clouds: "Beiszendmizu 63", "Varea 64", "Rouen 65", "Telm City 66", "Orkemdrem 67", "Dazajin 68", "Tampon Bay 69", "Ylfa 70", "Bright Falls 71", "Lipa 72"... by now, the logo has overtaken the camera: it is no longer in shot. The camera makes a sudden change of direction and looks at the final set of clouds: "Estograd 73", "Angradka 74", "Monterra 75", and finally, "Rosario 76".
At 7:04, the actions shifts to modern-day Majorium, taking a long shot of the city, before going on a whistle-stop tour, as the camera suddenly speeds up in order to catch up with the logo. and the logo is eventually caught up, and comes into the picture, taking up the entire camera shot (7:28). The logo text animates, and finally, the WorldVision Song Contest 77 has begun.
For the opening act, it was decided to reprise the Mister Xian act from the last WorldVision Song Contest to be held on Xian soil. However, the lyrics would be change to reflect more appropriate themes of WorldVision 77. Emerging onto the WorldVision stage like the queen of the night, Morgana Infidelo (which is a hybrid of Latin and Celtic names, and when translated into English, means "the disloyal dweller of the sea") stalks across the stage. Her choice of outfit is like something out of a costume drama, with a silky dulled golden dress adorned with rings and necklaces. She glides elegantly across towards the front of the stage. The back wall changes to animation of black smoke. In the background is a couple doing an Argentine Tango.
Welcome to a new beginning
The start of something that's brand new
Welcome to the start of something
That will be the making of you
Morgana moves to one side of the stage as images of the other nations' flags come up behind her.
WorldVision, the world in vision
WorldVision, songs for me and you
WorldVision, there's something for everyone
Who will win? Who will lose? Let's find out!
Morgana scuttles across the stage.
Majorium
Let's find out who will win here tonight
Majorium
It's your chance to set the world here alight
It's WorldVision, you know
The song, the dance, the world as one
And now, Majorium,
Are you ready? Are you ready-yyyyy...?
The camera fades to black and then fades back in on a super-close up of Morgana's face.
This is now a new beginning
The start of something that's brand new
This is now the start of something
And it's going to be the making of you
WorldVision, the world in vision
WorldVision, songs for me and you
WorldVision, there's something for everyone
Who will win? Who will lose? Let's find out!
Majorium
Let's find out who will win here tonight
Majorium
It's your chance to set the world here alight
The Argentine Tango dancers move towards Morgana at the front of the stage and start posing around her.
It's a song and dance contest
We've got for you tonight
And yes, let's go
It's time for a show
You've got a license to thrill...
Morgana is hoisted up by the dancers.
At WorldVision!
WorldVizh, WorldVision!
At WorldVision!
WorldVision!
With the final three notes she makes three dramatic poses in the air and the lights all cut to black on the last note.
The lights fade up, the logo appears on the back wall, and the camera zooms out - a seamless transition - and standing in the middle of the stage is Robert Baxter, amongst rapturous applause.
Robert: Hello, hello, good evening, and welcome to Majorium!
The crowd cheers some more and then the camera slowly tightens in on Robert.
Robert: Yes, thank you! Hello, and as the countdown to a new WorldVision ends, a brand new countdown begins. This countdown, or, I suppose, a count-up, shows just how far we've all come since we made our début back in Proletariat--
He gets some boos from the crowd for mentioning a Marxist term. He makes a brief pause, then continues.
Robert: -- City, and now we're back, bigger and better than ever before. This is the 77th WorldVision Song Contest, coming to you live from Majorium, Mister X!
He gets more cheers.
Robert: Yes! And welcome to the May Arena. Nearly 50,000 people are rammed in here tonight, all hoping to see a deserving and satisfying winner. But I couldn't do this alone, oh no. Please welcome my fellow co-conspirator... Sam Smith!
A short fanfare plays as the back wall opens to reveal Sam Smith. He walks forward to rapturous applause and a standing ovation from those who were seated.
Sam: I thought you were doing a good job alone!
Robert: Oh, funny.
Sam: Alors, ce soir, il y a plus de chansons pour vous, et vouz pouvez voter pour votre chanson prefere. Telephonez le numero--
An overview of the songs appears on screen.
Sam: -- avec le numero pour votre chanson prefere. Pour exemple, si vous voulez voter pour chanson 1, vous telephonez le numero avec "01".
Robert: Ace. In Latin?
Sam: hic nocte, si suffragor cvpis pro tvvs canticvm delicia, et cantico I tvvs canticvm delicia est, nvmervs cvm I vocare.
Robert: And in English?
Sam: If you want to vote for song number one, dial the number and add "01" at the end.
Robert: Right, the lines won't open--
Sam: Les lignes ne vont pas ouvrir...
Robert: -- until all the songs have been performed.
Sam: ... jusqu'a toutes les chansons ont été chantées.
Robert: OK, I think that's everything. Now, Sam, you take over, because, in a spot of cost-cutting, MRX have me doing 10 men's work. And so I'm off to the commentary box, whilst you do the honours!
Robert leaves and Sam turns to camera.
Sam: OK, Majorium, are we ready?
The crowd cheers in an affirmative fashion.
Sam: May the best song win, and let the WorldVision Song Contest 77 begin!
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