🇵🇱 Poland

The Polish postcard is filmed near the Scala dei Turchi, it looks beautiful, but there's a lot of Ochman's face in this postcard. Towards the end he blows us two kisses, a bit like the winks of Bill van Dijk's drummer .... as if he's not sure the first one was on camera, and he tries again. He's also on the LED wall during the song. It's all a bit ... muchman?

The stage is all dark blue. There's a rain effect right at the start on screen, and later in the song there's more of that. Also we get some nice shots of the water in the stage. So it's a lot of Ochman and a lot of water. and screen effects, but those look good. In the second part we get some flashing white lights. 

At the start of the second chorus there's a nice shot where the camera pans out quickly from the stage to a shot of the audience which has water effects but also a 'shaking' effect, hard to describe, but it looks nice. In hindsight I think it was meant to look like lightning.

It's also from the first chorus that we see it's not only Ochman on stage, but there are also 'creatures' dancing around him. Although they looked a bit scary in the pictures, it's so dark on stage that you don't really see what they look like, and actually they're not really distracting.

Vocally, he's doing fine I suppose, but his timing is not optimal. There seem to be vocals on tape which sing along with him during the verses at least, and he seems to be out of sync with them a bit.

All in all, the effects are nice, it is all very dark though, and Ochman doesn't really connect to the camera. Is this a qualifier? Most likely yes. Are we going to Warsaw next year? No way.

Second runthrough the vocals and timing were much better I should add, but you see it doesn't come effortlessly. Meaning he's too concentrated to get the notes right to really connect and bring across the message in a credible way.

In the last run the shaking effect is a bit different it seems and it also is a bit longer. Have to say after seeing it three times now, they've put some thought into this. So although I still don't think it's a winner, it really is quite good after all.

On to Jeremy now who will guide you through the next couple of rehearsals!