The aNd team watch it together and though it wasn’t as long as you would imagine when the ceremony consisted of 18 chapters covering 1,000 years of Russian history with 3000 performances. Here are a few of our highlights:
My favorite – the shear engineering of “The Building”
The $600 million building designed to house it all is Fisht
Stadium. Though Fisht is the primary stadium for the games themselves, its
designers—the US-based sports venue architects at Populous and structural
engineers at Buro Happold—designed it so that it could offer "studio
conditions" for the opening
ceremonies. That means the translucent polycarbonate roof will not only give
the building an appearance of snowy peaks, ensuring it sits in harmony with the
landscape of the Imeretinskaya Valley and the Caucasus Mountains, but this roof
can be used as a screen for projections, as well as massive hangars at
each end that will be used as staging areas for the thousands of athletes and
tons of equipment that must be moved quickly into the arena.
From Shawna….Opening ceremony – the pyro technicians have been rehearsing the fireworks for days.
Fireworks
over the Fisht Olympic Stadium at the Olympic Park during a rehearsal of the
opening ceremony in Sochi, on Feb. 4, 2014.
Lyne shows her French Canadian pride…Solotech (a
production company in Montreal) lands in Sochi with one of the biggest
projection systems in the world. They are handling the video projections
for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. Does anyone see any snow? This is
the 2014 Winter Games! Known as
the Russian Riviera, the Black Sea resort of Sochi is the warmest city ever to
host the Winter Olympics.
Canada’s presence at the 2014 also includes Quebec’s
world-famous circus act Les 7 Doigts de la Main, a troupe with previous Olympic
experience, was involved in a 10-minute performance immediately after the
athletes’ entrance into the Stadium.
From Charmaine….our
eagle eyes noticed that one snowboard sculpture refused to light up.
From Rachel….wow-worthy
special effects – here is her favorite scene
I loved the constellation of Olympians, and how it represents their stories being written in the stars. (I know, its uber cheesy)
What a great way to exit into the games with the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron into the Musical Firework finale with Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.
The Olympic
stadium grounds were built with great thought and care, that filmed from a
bird’s eye view, Sochi looks like an Olympic Nation.
(Screen
shot from CBC’s Live Stream Olympic Ceremony Opening)
Hope
my “Free Idea” makes your Friday!
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