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Presents
Last edition in the lovely historical city of Milano, Aris Mooe made Malta Comino Gozoan history by winning the prestigious contest for the first time ever with her impressive rock song called "Force", which topped the scoreboard and placed 1st with 236 points, winning not only the jury vote but also the public vote.
Welcome back to Valletta the cultural beating heart of Malta Comino Gozo the tiny capital of this tiny nation. Valletta old town which dates back to 1455, with hidden gems on every street. Boasting Palaces to beautiful government buildings, to sun washed gardens to its famous city walls, stunning cathedrals, baroque architecture and winding back alleys, and Valletta Downtown, the new modern purpose built financial heart of the capital, home to the MCG Mall and Casino, Valletta Clock tower, Valletta Yacht Club and its breath taking sea front district on Victoria Street.
All the twelve points given to Malta Comino Gozo flash up on the screen. The scoreboard and spokespersons are seen. Malta Comino Gozo is declared the winner of Worldvision 84! The fans go wild .The Malta Comino Gozoan crowd, lit up with fireworks cheer and dance together, ecstatic for their first Worldvision win. MCG chants can be heard bellowing around the arena. Excitement is in the air as the footage of Aris lifting the WorldVision trophy plays on the huge screen to the crowd in the Fed-Ex Forum. Aris crying with tears of joy,. Hardly able to comprehend what she had done. The camera slows right down, focusing solely on her face capturing her emotions. She is crying with happiness. Confetti is pouring around her. For the first time in forever her body and mind relaxed. In that moment there were no expectations upon her, no deadlines and no schedules to meet. She was a winner. The screen fades to black
The WorldVision Song Contest had begun, the audience applauding loudly in the arena. People back at home, cheering too. Fireworks around Valletta are let off in a colourful spectacle. Unlike previous editions however, the beginning of the show starts with a pitch black background, red white, blue green yellow, pink paint gently splashed across the canvas of black almost shifting as the camera focusses on it. However, as the music begins the black screen fades into waves crashing against a shore. The paint is then painted away in many directions with a brush revealing the word "Valletta" which appears on screen as more waves crash against the shore, with a gentle swoosh as the waves roll back out to sea over a rocky coastline. The words fade out, as the black fades to the waves crashing against a sun kissed coast. The opening video of Valletta begins. Various shots of the beauty and history of Valletta are shown, from the stunning St Marks Cathedral which dominate the skyline of the old town, the various yachts and luxury cruise liners in the bay, to the hustle and bustle of the sunlit promenade the towering new modern glass skyscrapers of the CBD, the lights dancing of the windows visible in the background. Malta Comino Gozoan flags flutter in the breeze. A speedboat races into the harbour its MCG flag waving excitedly in the wind as water jumps around it. The camera includes many stunning aerial shots of the whole city with the sun streaking in from the side. The camera follows the streets along before showing shots of the bay before twisting around various Church domes and the promenade. The sun kissed buildings glowing in the sun. TV aerials penetrate the sky from the old rustic limestone houses. The sun begins to fade. The sun sets in the sky as fresh colours are brushed upon the artist's canvas, as if those rays were destined to create a great work of art - one given to those open to capturing simple moments in the soul. Lights beginning to be switched on around the city. Orange glowing lights which seem to give a off a warm homely feel. The video ends with a beautiful sunset over the city as a painters hand emerges, they have painted the beautiful city scape.
Valletta remains not only a beacon for the busy ships passing by, but also for music and culture. The city teaming with life, from, patriotic music events, extraordinary art galleries and impressive dance concerts. This sun bathed cultural city attracting millions of tourists a year. Since our debut in Worldvision 76, the tiny island nation has certainly made an impact. Worldvision's smallest competing country, finishing in the top ten 6 times out of 9! Worldvision is a nationwide loved event and whether the nation has done well, or placed lower than they would have liked the islands have always had fun and supported their entrants through thick and thin! The islands once again plans to put their all into providing an energetic and spectacularly entertaining contest to bring the world together. So come, and "Paint Your Own Music With Us!"
0:00 The arena is bathed in red light with flashes of white. The view is silhouetted behind dancing excited fans holding glow sticks, while huge white squares resonate out from the huge LED background screen
0:03 The camera pans into Federiku Cutajar, in his DJ booth centre stage he's wearing a boring white t shirt, black headphones around his neck and a broad smile pasted across his face. Steam vents erupt on either side of him. His names is on front of the booth in large letters "Federiku Cutajar" The camera pans out and the arena then turns a bright neon green. A shot of the crowd is briefly shown. Smiles adorn their faces. Glowsticks waving frantically. The beat continues to build and build! With the cheers come fists in the air and eyes flung wide.
0:17 The beat kicks in as steam events erupt again impressively around the DJ booth. The view pans in from behind the crowds towards the centre stage. Thousands of neon blue glowsticks light up the air amidst the neon green strobe lights. The cuts to a boom camera high above the crowd showing the spectacular prism stage in all its glory. The strobe lightning piercing through the arena.
0:32 The view cuts back to Federiku Cutajar whose hands are thrown up in the air, the crowd also doing the same if there weren't already! The camera then zooms in as he goes back to spinning his discs. He suddenly takes his headphones from around his neck and places them on booth in front of him. He tingled from his head to his toes. He bounced on his flexing feet and rubbed his hands together. He wore the facial expression of a small child with an especially large Christmas present. The camera continues to cut to various arena shots for the next few seconds.
0:47 We cut to a view of an excited group of fans dancing. They all get even more excited as the camera focuses on them! Screams can be heard. The women have glitter gently painted on their cheeks and glowstick wrist bands the men with them both draped in a Kalosian flag and a Elejamian flag. A large blue stick is in all their hands waving around frantically. We then cut to a woman on her boyfriends shoulders high above the surrounding crowd waving her arms and glowstick to the beat!
0:59 The neon green lights suddenly fade out dramatically as the beat builds. The spider cam pans over the delighted crowd. It is now just a sea of blue glowsticks bobbing away. The people are not visible.
1:08 We have a close up shot of Federiku again, a look mon concentration on his face but he's still smiling his headphones now back on as he DJ's. Again he rips his headphones off as fast as he had put them on and starts pointing into the crowd before clapping his hands above his head as the neon green lights come back on. The screen behind him exploding with green fire effects.
1:15 We have another view of an excited group of girls. The are holding a Waisnor flag. They are lit up frequently by the fast moving green and warm yellow lights that swirl around the hall crazily. They dance away huge smiles on their faces.
1:19 The view is now just from behind Federiku slightly bathed in neon green looking into the massive audience. His moves his hands about playfully in front of his head before going back to his decks. The camera then switches to a frontal view of him doing so. It slowly zooms in.The LED background now green and black gears rolling around.
1:30 As the beat builds again we have another shot of fans this time from Normandy and Picardy who take up the main view. They bounce along as they are lit by the powerful yellow and green strobe lights. The men are waving their glowsticks passionately. The girls arms waving about. The view then cuts to two lads with caps back to front on the shoulders of their friends waving their blue glowsticks high above everyone else.
1:38 the camera then stays on Federiku for a few seconds as he points at the crowd. The music beat dissipating briefly before pumping even more. The whole arena vibrates. A large cheer can be heard! As the music raises on octave and gets higher before cutting to noise as Federiku introduces his 2 DJ friends! The lighting is almost epileptic.
1:59 "WOLRDIVISON! PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE TWO VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE, TUMAS BUTTIEG AND ELIS VELLA!!"!
The crowd goes wild. With applause screams and cheers! It echoes throughout the arena.
2:12 Elias addresses the crowds, "WHATS UP VALLETTA! MAKES SOME NOISE FOR FEDERIKU CUTAJAR!!" The crowd is ecstatic
2:27 The camera pans over the arena. OK VALLETTA ARE YOU READY?! EVERYBODY HERE, WE GO! GET DOWN! SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN EVERYBODY! SIT DOWN! LETS GO! LETS DO THIS ONE TIME! THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD IS WATCHING US RIGHT NOW VALLETTA! GO DOWN!" (The whole 600 strong standing crowd lowers down excitedly. Everyone in the VIP area in the centre crouches down. The massive 17,200 seated crowd who were already out of their seats dancing now sit back down eagerly awaiting the next part. The music was so loud that it made people's skin bounce. The Neon lights flashed everywhere like police sirens, but much more colourful. "EVERYBODY GO DOWN! SIT DOWN, SIT DOWN! OK FERDIKU AND TUMAS RUN THE TRACK! ARE YOU READY! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" The remaining people on their feet compete for space on the floor. The view cuts to the 3 DJ's now crouching behind the booth before cutting back to the crowds.
3:02 The lights strobe getting faster and faster the music builds. "GO DOWN! GO DOWN HERE WE GO! VALLETTA! LETS PARTYYY!"
3:12 A shot of a large group of fans eagerly awaiting with the glowsticks is shown. "ONE! TWO! ONE TWO THREE JUMP!" Steam shoots up from the stage as bright strobe spotlights. "JUMP" is displayed on the neon green screens. No one can see the arena floor, it's wall to wall people dancing to the music. The boom cam pans from the back left over the top of the crowd towards the stage as dozens of white spotlights shoot out from around the stage into the audience. A slight mist from the fog machines fills the arena.
3:20 The DJ's are bouncing up and down with the crowds their hands waving.
3:26 The camera is zoomed into the stage just above the fans, its almost obscured by hands and flags and glowsticks waving. The lights almost blinding.
3:32 We have another shot of the 3 on stage partying. Elias address the crowd VALLETTA! HERE WE GO! HEYYYY!" The camera switches quickly between various over head and arena shots. Various mobile phones can be seen filming the amazing show. The audience replies back with a series of loud collective "HEYS!" Fire shoots out repetitively around the DJ booth.
3:44 The boom camera pans around above the electrified audience as they are intermittently lit up with white strobe lights. The
stage comes into view as the camera pans, the front is barely visible among the bright piercing lights which cut through the air. We then have a frontal shot. The 3 DJ's arms are raised up swaying left to right encouraging the crowd to copy. The lights begin to fade to neon pink and cream. We have a blocked camera view of hundreds of hands raised copying them.
4:00 "OH WOW! FEDERIKU, OK WERE GONNA DO THIS!" As he reaches for his phone and turns on its torch. Tumas can be seen playing with the dics on the booth fading the track briefly. "I WANNA SEE ALL YOUR LIGHTS UP IN THE AIR! ALL YOUR LIGHTS UP VALLETTA! ARE YOU READY?!" THIS IS THE WOLRVISION SONG CONTEST! ARE YOU READY?" He shouts. The 3 of them hold their phones high into the air, the camera zooming in on their phones as they do. This was if not the biggest crowd raising their torches up. The arena is now a stunning field of phone lights raised high into the air. The DJ's are blown away by the beauty of the spectacle. The track begins to play again.
4:33 The music plunges briefly in volume as the camera focus on the stage. Elias calls out again, "I WANNA HEAR YOU!" Pumping up the crowds even more so. A huge cheer cuts through the arena again! HERE WE GO EVERYBODY! LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT RIGHT!" The music builds like an eruption, speeding up as it does. The crowd screaming. We have a brief shot of a group of excited fans waving the phones and then shot of the arena lights flowing collectively left and right, they move in unison like a collective unit. The view is spectacular as thousands of torches are held up.
4:55 The dramatic beat hits and the arena erupts once again. Bright hot yellow lights shoot out from the stage. The arena actually shaking slightly due to the jumps and music. The arena is now dark and lit solely by the phone lights. Its a is wonderful site. Confetti bursts out of the roof raining down like rain in a thunderstorm onto the unsuspecting crowd. The crowd is jumping, swaying, signing, waving their arms. This was one of the greatest openings to the contest so far. The camera continues to pan around the arena, the stage and various other shots of the giant party, before the song dramatically cuts. The crowd who were already on their feet explode into screams and cheers, this goes on for some time. The voice over is unable to commence the parade of nation introductions for at least a minute. The wild crowd calms down just enough for the voice over to speak.
Ladies and Gentlemen! Live from Valletta, Malta Comino Gozo! This is the 85th Worldvision Song Contest!!!
