r/eurovision • u/escfan229 • 7d ago

⏪️ Throwback Thursday Stefania - Last Dance - LIVE - Greece 🇬🇷 - Grand Final - Eurovision 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhZhJFp0vVw&list=RDQhZhJFp0vVw&start_radio=1

I decided to post this song for this week's Throwback Thursday since I thought the greenscreen effects were interesting. Stefania is a Greek-Dutch singer who represented the Netherlands at JESC 2016 as part of the girl group Kisses with the song "Kisses and Dancin" (8th place).

In 2020, she was selected by ERT to represent Greece at ESC with the song "Supergirl" (Greece 2020). "Last Dance" was her second song to represent Greece at ESC due to ESC rules requiring new songs for ESC 2021, and she finished in 10th place in the grand final with that song. Ever since then, Stefania has hosted Junior Songfestival (the selection show for Netherlands at JESC).

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u/MickyStam521 Loop 7d ago

Honestly maybe I'm biased but I think this was overhated. No I don't think the green screen was cheesy and lame, I think it was kinda creative and cool, not to mention I really like the song (much better than Superg!rl imo). I'm glad she put us in the top 10 after so long :)

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u/Aburrki 7d ago

For me it wasn't just the fact that they used a green screen but what was put on the green screen. Like are we in early 2000's YouTube or something? It's like green screen 101 that the background you composit on the green screen should look like something that the subject in front of the green screen is actually in. But no it's just a generic neon city visualizer and Stefania and the dancers are just standing on an invisible platform completely independent of the background. It's like they just had the idea for the invisible dancers and literally put zero thought into any other part of the effect besides the fact that they need to wear green spandex suits.... Not to mention the fact that the keying (isolating the color green and replacing it with something else) just looked bad with shadows everywhere. Now sure that is due to the fact that live keying is just really really hard, but like was it really worth it to experiment with this technology if the results were just gonna look bad?