Getting Ready for Düsseldorf! with English Subtitles Part 5.

Lena's performance didn't have a lot of show elements. She won it anyway. What was her secret? I think she was very charming. Charming? Yes! The song was catchy. People loved her and voted for her. I also think that the song had a good beat. Anyway, it was an easy, nice song. Does it need to have a good beat? Yeah, I think so. This song was really catchy. I think it's important, that you had a good feeling listening to that song. When you see the clip you instantly get a smile on your face. It's really natural, refreshing. It is a song contest, but it's really important, how the performer feels on the stage. This is the feeling what the audience is feeling as well. I think Lena did enjoy her performance very much. Yeah, I feel this happy feeling when I see that. On the other hand, we have to say, that Germany had quite a promotion going on last year. The promoted the song around Euorpe. It's very important. What promotion does a winner song need? I think performing in lots of tv shows around Europe, like they did. And the radio's play it from dawn til night. Yeah, that's important too. It's good when the people know the song before the contest. It's really hard to introduce a new song in 3 minutes. It's a very short time for getting to like the song. You said, that it has a good beat and it has a happy feeling. Than I would say that ballads has a smaller chance to win. I don't think so. I think it's more important how you can connect with the audience in 3 minutes. Which song had such an impression on me, that I could remeber it and vote for it. It has to be there some catharsis, it doesn't matter if it's happy or it's sad. It has to come with an intense feeling. So the genre doen't really matter, it has to be authentic. But if we look at the statistics, we can see that more upbeat songs have won. But the ballads will be the bigger hits in time. It's usual today's television: in a show there are 9 out of 10 upbeat songs, because the rythm of the life won't get slower. Thank you for the explanation. After the art, we'll see now more everyday problems. This year, a football arena is the place for Eurovision. They had a few problems with that. Thomas Kutscher the project manager tells us everything. Once we decided to go inside Düsseldorf Arena we had some specific problems. First of all the light. I think there's 2000 different types of lights inside the arena, so that the audience wouldn't sit in darkness. We can see their reactions, so we can get a glimpse of the feeling inside the arena. Another problam was, where to put the stage. we put it in the centre of the arena. It's a challenge. We had a 60 meters wide 8 meters high LED wall and a 13 diameters stage. So the solo artists, like the French guy, won't get lost on the stage. He won't look tiny. Which means a single solo artist, will not be too small, but a 6 member team will have enough place as well. With such a big stage, we always have the question: is it intimate enough, isn't it too big? I think we will have the chance to show the 30 thousand people sitting in the audience. I think our goal was to achieve, that the stage is spectacular but not so big, that it was in Moscow, so that people look like tiny ants on it. It was a problem for the organisers in Moscow as well. They had a big challenge. The arena is quite unique. Not just because its measurements, but because of its open roof, which can be closed any time. It takes 30 minutes to close it, but it's really important to have it closed, because in that way we can have night conditions during the day. On the other hand we have more thank, 200 tonnes equpment under the roof. So it really is a unique arena. There are other arenas with roofs like this, but they are transparent, so they let the sunshine through. Which would not have been good for us for Eurovision. The grass of the arena was picked in april. It is now under the stage, we hope it remains intact. When Eurovision's over we'd like to put back the same grass, which was there originally. I'm releaved, they had sorted of all of their problems. I was surprised, when you told us about your last minute dress change. I would think that after such a good organisation, as everybody does in the busines before a tv show, you could just go and change your dress last minute. How much before the contest do you have to have a developed staging? I was surprased too, when you told us that. We had to define 2 months before the show, what colors the performance will have. We had to send a video. So they are preparing very well. We didn't have that. Could it be different in every country? I don't know. It could be. We had designed our performance, step to step after the rehearsals in the viewing room. During the rehearsals, I had my own clothes on. In 1994 I had to wear that dress during the rehearsals as well. In Belgrade we had our first rehearsal in our own dress then we had to wear the dress for the semi-final. I remember. But as for Kati, she had to wear the dress even on the first rehearsal. I think it's important, so that you can get the feeling, of the night, of the whole performance and get used to it. Can you change the coreography during rehearsals? I think they went to Düsseldorf, with the final coreography. The changes affect the camera angles mostly. So they can show everything they want us to show. Did the support of the public help you anyway? I got a book from Mezõkövesd, everyone wrote some lines in it, it was great. It gave me strength. After that, you can't listen to anybody. Everyone wants to help, but you have to listen to your own hunches. You can't make everybody happy. You have to stick to one thing and go trough with it. Is there anyone, you can listen to in this situation? Yes. Yourself. I read Kata's facebook page. If she would listen to everyone's advice. she'd be spinning like this all the time. everyone wants to help of course. before every contest, people talk about chances. Eurovision isn't an exception. Gábor Gundel-Takács reports from Düsseldorf about this years favorites. Eurovision is a contest, so it's common to talk about chances. We have more options. For example in the press centre, reporters can vote for the qualifiers of the first semi. So far, we're on the 7th place. The first 10 countries qualify.