Melodine Song Festival
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| Melodine Song Festival | |
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| Genre | National Song Festival |
| Country of origin | Plangainer |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 12 Live Shows |
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| Production location(s) | Concord, Plangainer |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
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| Production company(s) | AIM |
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| Audio format | Dolby Digital (Stereophonic) |
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The Melodine Song Festival, more commonly referred simply as Melodine, is a national song festival and award ceremony in Plangainer organized by AIM where each competing contestant submits an original work of music to compete and be performed live in a stage-based show starting from an arrangement of four to six semi-finals and concluding at a grand final, where each song is then judged by a combined point system driven part by a professional jury panel and audience voting, and in some circumstances involving of the international jury, which would cast their votes to crown the winning song a 'Musical Excellence' award including with a cash prize and an eligibility to compete in the WorldVision Song Contest.
The contest was initially hosted in the internal studios of AIM before hosting rights were eventually handed over to competing venues in several major cities across Plangainer, while the rights to host the grand final were given to Phoenix Arena in a multi-year contract agreement to share hosting rights with AIM and selected locations.
Format
The selection of artists which compete in the song festival are first picked during an initial period where interested participants can submit a letter of interest to the host broadcaster along with contents of their act, the entry window period length varies between twelve to sixteen weeks and is set to close a month before the 53 acts competing are shortlisted for the song festival line up, while the rules of the contest specify that only Plangainerian citizens were allowed to participate, the host of the festival may waive the rule in some circumstances.
Participants which have qualified to compete in the song festival receive confirmation from either the host broadcasting body or the participant representing agency, the acts are awarded financial assistance of $1,500 initial ($5,000 additional upon qualification to the finals) for constructing the act with accompanying visual or alternative content.
All shows of the festival are broadcasted live, with the semi finals hosted in the broadcast complex unit Studio B in Media Park, Orley, and the grand final held at the Phoenix Arena, Concord.
Songs performed in the song festival must feature live backing as opposed to prerecorded tracks of the participants instrumental track, live instruments are allowed to be used by the performers on stage and each act is restricted to a maximum of 12 people on stage at a consecutive time. Songs participating in the song festival must be between the two and four minute mark in length and must not feature any politically focused content unless otherwise permitted by the festival host.
Voting
The song festival features a domestic professional jury and public voting system which is used to determine the qualifiers of the semi finals and the winner of the grand final, with an intermittent feature of an international jury as part of the full voting sequence who share the same point distribution as the national jury and equally decide the winner of the edition that the groups are featured in. The public vote uses a proportional system where the total vote count is reflected with a representative point system and has an equal share of the overall score tally in both the semi final and grand final of the festival.
Early in the shows running, a proposed idea of increasing the public vote weighing on the total score was shared by the festival host broadcaster with a split of 40/60 but was inevitably scrapped due to possible complications presented with how scores could be calculated to negate the power of the local jury, the idea was brought back upon the inclusion of an international jury in the festival, but the broadcaster would later announced that they would keep the three voting groups hold an even split in the final result.
Public votes are counted via SMS with each vote cost varying between every edition broadcasted with 6 total votes available to any phone number, a proposed mobile app for a more interactive form of voting was recently revealed to be in development.