BEHIND THE STEADICAM * Eurovision Song Contest 2021 — Finland 🇫🇮

BEHIND THE STEADICAM at Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam. A series of videos where you can join me, Tomas Antonsson, and Job Scholtze on a journey behind the scenes, to show you the hard work done to deliver you and the viewers a mood and the story of each song performed.

A big shout-out to everyone in the Dutch camera crew, light crew, stage crew and organisation for an amazing time in Rotterdam making this show together. ✨

Finland keep on delivering good songs in the rock genre. BLIND CHANNEL performs their song DARK SIDE for Finland 🇫🇮 in the Eurovision Song Contest. They made it to the 6th place with a total of 301 points in the Grand final.

+ CREDITS
Director — Daniel Jelinek
Director Assistant — Sjewa Frank

Steadicam Operator — Tomas Antonsson
Focus puller — Julia Lorenz
Steadicam Operator — Job Scholtze
Focus puller — Feline Pothuizen

+ COPYRIGHTS
Blind Channel — Dark Side
written by Aleksi Kaunisvesi, Joel Hokka, Joonas Porko, Niko Moilanen, Olli Matela
© 2021 Sony Music / Ranka Kustannus

™ Eurovision and the Eurovision Song Contest logo are registered trademark of European Broadcasting Union and used with permission by EBU 2022.

Footage used in this video,
* And footage from my own Insta 360 camera, iPhone and Steadicam

+ TIMECODES
0:00 — Intro
0:09 — Preperations & commentary
1:14 — Shot 1, JOB
1:17 — Shot 2, TOMAS
1:25 — Shot 3, TOMAS
1:38 — Shot 4, JOB
1:58 — Shot 5, TOMAS
2:10 — Changing Rolling Shutter to Global Shutter, Grass Valley LDX C86N
2:40 — Shot 6, JOB

#behindthesteadicam #tomasantonsson #jobscholtze #eurovision #eurovisionsongcontest #steadicam #finland #blindchannel #darkside

[helmi]

Wow I had no idea that you had handheld camerawork in this performance 😮 Thank you so much for making this iconic performance true, that sweat wasn't for nothing!

[YurymBR]

One of the best camera work I've ever seen!
Cuepilot is really amazing!

[lvs]

So sick that you used rolling shutter as an effect, love these insights we get into the camerawork! Alse I've said it before but the rest of the video is amazing aswell, from the multiple angles to the countdown to the next shot, really appreciate all the effort you put in!

[FernandsLiveShowShow]

This commentary is gold, great to hear your point of view! 2:12's blown my mind – I didn't know shutter settings were changed locally as such, for some reason I thought it was changed back in the truck or something.
And the joys of the flexible nature of steadicam: just swing it from side to side! Awesome 👏

[Jurij_vlasov]

Yay! Another video! 🔥🔥🔥 thank you Tomas! 👍

[Za_Vas]

I never realized there even was Steadicam in this performance. Also the crane cameras are just controlled by 2 people moving it manually? I always thought it was controlled remotely from an office. Once again an amazing video!

[Presidentofthe]

I can’t wait to see the Italy video. The best video

[liliansofia]

What does dutching the camera angle mean? And the rolling shutter effect? 🤔 I am just curious 😅

[AntonDiachuk]

Do you watch Eurovision every year? Did you pay attention to work of steadicam. What shots were the hardest ones you remember in your professional opinion?

[daanstam]

Great footage again. What camera and lens were you guys using?

[bobthegreat]

hahah love the editing 😂 also just out of curiousity what difference does it make choosing between a rolling shutter and global shutter?

[Sonnen_Licht]

I was wondering if you guys as cameramen provided any input into the camera shots (like angles, duration, etc.), or the delegations had all the say in the decision making.