Does Anyone Have Any Idea\'s For London 2012 Opening Ceremony?
 

How can London top Beijing?

Apart from 99p fireworks and party poppers lol.

Anybody Have Any Ideas?!

Not one idea. When I was watching Beijing's I was thinking the UK are never gonna be able to even be comparable by 1% to the Beijing opening. There is actually literally nothing the UK can celebrate for the worlds biggest events 2012 opening! lol

I was watching the news coverage of the Bejing ceremony and I am already tired of hearing about it;; I think it is pretty obvious the UK could never compare to that, and all that money could've gone to better causes. :bawling:

I agree, kinda.. i mean i can see them using someone huge like Leona singing, i mean she is huge worldwide. Also loads of break dancers that are truely amazing.

There is no way that our ceremony will even compare to the Beijing opening. It was awesome. :shocked:

I am worried after seeing what china presented to the world today. I'd hate to be in the people in charge of the opening ceremony 2012 as they must be pooing their pants. lol

The main thing about London 2012 is that we have no real history in our country to the extent of China. Their Opening Ceremony was heavily based on their history.

I think for our opening ceremony we need to speak to the international community, incorporate the fact the U.K. is home to many race's. Have African themed segments, Middle Eastern themes, Chinese and U.S. themes. Ending with a British theme incorporating young people.

To light the Olympic Torch, I'd involve those Street Jumpers - they basically climb on top of bridges and rooftops and things. That would appeal to teenagers because its a young people's sport and very energetic.

People are talking about the Beijing ceremony as if that never happens every 4 years :conf2:

It does...

I don't think it's fair to compare Beijing's ceremony to the others. It blew them out of the water!

I imagine they'll incorparate the anarchy in some way.

I like that! I like it a lot, Maybe a huge street dance section. big flips and jumps and stuff. A mega star from the UK, Paul Mccartney and Leona Lewis singing the national anthem as a duet, while the guards that guard the queen carry in the flags with loads of little kids singing?

Beijing is far one of best opening ceremony I have ever seen you can tell they planned that very very well., were never going to do anything better, no way. I have no clue what they could do, and I personally wouldn't even have the Olympics in London/UK. I just think our opening ceremomy will be slightly tacky? We didn't deserve it.

Even the UK's stadium looks really plain and rubbish. I think it was be decades before a stadium better than the Birds nest and Watercube are built for an Olympics. They are really beautiful buildings.

i disagree. They are not plain and rubbish, they are good. The look of the whole Olympic park looks great. Yes, i know, i mean the birds nest is the best stadium i have ever seen and the watercube is a work of art too, our stadium looks plain because it's compared to a complete work of art!

Beijing 08 stadium:

http://i38.tinypic.com/14y36zo.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/nqrd3t.jpg

Proposed London village:

http://i35.tinypic.com/1rq72s.jpg

Final design:

http://i38.tinypic.com/eg4g2w.jpg

Thats right, for some reason the committee ditched the 'Flower Petal' stadium, for a very plain Circle basic stadium which has nothing to it and it isn't interesting :(

The circular stadium is so dull =(

Whatever happened to the first design for the London 2012 stadium? That was great - much better than the design we have now. Which like you said Conor, is very dull and boring.

http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpres...20II%20480.jpg

That looked soooo much better.

Edit: Conor just posted a picture of it - that stadium is 10x better!

Apparently it was ditched because the council decided it would be to hard to re use for other events after the Olympics, wasting their money. The final design was something very basic and dull so it was easy to hold other events in it.

LEONA!BREAKDANCERS!,we are trting to have a better opening than bejing!

well yeah, the flower petal would of been FANTASTIC. But the stadium we have now is not that bad, i mean it is a sports competition at the end of the day.. The flower petal looks phenomenal! But the one we have now is not that bad. It's very practical too. with getting rid of it and all that after the games.



I also think 2012's Aquatic Centre looks FANTASTIC!!



Now looking at the birdsnest its just a basic building covered in a steal "Birds nest" cover? :conf2:

Well, im not the producer it's just my idea. What would you recomend PJ!?!

I just have a feeling the 2012 Olympics will be a flop, especially if it's sandwiched between an Olympics as good as Beijing has been.

AHEM,To start with a domnio trail set up in the form of the olympic rings.Then someone will shout "let the games begin"
then a 4 mil firwork display will go of,a giant paint ball explosion will start,50 dancers will fall from them stringey things and start to do tricks a brass band will start to play an england flag will fall,then total silence....
The national anthem will then be sung by that welsh bird.

Don't you think that's very basic, low key and short though?

You didn't let me finsih a large pole lower into the stadium,then the queen will slide down in a mankini and sing take a bow.

LOL sexy! :whistle:

I would watch just for that.:laugh3::laugh3:

The 2012 stadium doesnt stand out at all its just a bowl, which looks like a ordinary football stadium.
The Beijing one has a magnificent design, its architecturally amazing and just stands out because its a amazing design.
They have completely underestimated the costs of 2012, showing how disorganized and inaccurate they all are. The aquatics stadium had to be reduced, the designed changed, and there still problems with it.

ROFL.

Look osam whats his face is gonna blow the frekin thing up anyway,that stadium is gonna be full of em waitng to blow the place up.waste of money really.

Thats what I was thinking there's no way there isn't gonna be at least one terrorist threat during the London games.

London is more targeted for terrorist threats than Beijing, so its likely that there will be some sort of threat, which isn't surprising.

Found out Beijing only spent £27 mill on the opening ceremony. I'm really suprised they did so much with that amount of money. I'd have guessed they spent £100 million lol

I agree, I can see there being a terrorist threat.
It's kinda.. expected tbh :\
-makes a note to move out of london while the olympics are on-

On the other hand.
I don't wanna see Leona perform. At all >.>
But that's just me xD
We should have Britain's best talent [and I mean it, I'm sick of seeing some failed X-Factor contestant, a drugged up Amy Winehouse and the latest girlband].

Failing that.
Shove Alexandra BB9 on stage for half an hour
"We will win. 'memba I told you. Pow Pow Pow"
although after talking about terrorist threats.
That might not seem so appropriate :\

I agree about the performers, I'm not saying Leona doesn't have talent as she does, but maybe we should have talents that Britains well known for, not Amy Winehouse as that's just a bad reflection on our country. Tbh the opening ceremony is about the country's culture, and it looks like ours will be about drugs, binge drinking, obesity, and shootings.

Beijing had some great concepts, but the ceremony went way too over the top. There was just too much for it to be meaningful. Athens was overall a much more well done event and really made the history of civilization a piece of art; Beijing just tried too hard with the technology. If done right, London could probably do a better job than Beijing. How?

It needs to be dramatic, it needs to say: "Look, you don't need to spend £150m+ (it was $300m) to make a good ceremony." How about starting with an animation of the previous 29 modern Olympics on a plasma encircling the inner ring of the stadium with a woman in a flowing white dress slowly being lowered to the centre of the floor. When the animation finishes (that is, after 2008) and it's time for 2012, she uses a simple lighter and taps a small fuse that lights and enourmous fire with "LONDON 2012" encircling the inner perimetre of the track. The lights would have to be very low during this time so that it comes as a shock to the spectators and basically lights up the stadium.

Following that, an artistic representation of Euro-British history would follow, similar to the Athens float parade but executed so that it happens all above ground in mid-air. During this, the Parade of Nations would start slowly so that not only would it not go over-time like Beijing, but also the simultaneous action would mean that the athletes could watch the ceremony as it happens in person. This would obviate the boredom that the Parade causes much of the time. They would finish their laps and go underneath a clear plexiglass floor upon which the performers dance/sing/perform.

There are many celebrities that the UK could use. I'm against Leona or Paul, though. They're just too ridiculously fake and over-commercialised.

I think a good concept would be the usual fireworks, of course, but also, have a helicopter hovering above the stadium then throw down splatters of red, white and blue paint, or colours to go with the theme. It would look amazing, IMO, with all the bouncing colours of paint, then have a few drummers and stuff with the paint bouncing off the drums. I KNOW! Even, have the whole stadium dark and make the paint iluminous. Now THAT would be impressive, but I'm sure there are a lot more creative and amazing ideas in mind for 2012.

I THINK I HAVE JUST HAD AN AMAZING IDEA!! Can you tell me an honest opinion on it please!!

OK, my idea is about torch being lite!

First look at this picture..

Imagine all the countries have introduced themselves and the president of the Olympic committee has made his speech!

http://i35.tinypic.com/2ahh9qg.jpg

Then.. 4 past British athletes run a relay around the stadium.. as the center of the stadium slowly moulds into NELSON'S COLOUM!! WITHOUT NELSON ON TOP

Each Athlete runs a quarter of the track (Red and Blue in picture) When the final athlete runs to the center of the stadium A replica of Nelson's Column is in the middle of the stadium.. (Yellow Circle in picture below)

http://i36.tinypic.com/2lvb67s.jpg

When the final athlete gets to the center of the stadium where the smaller version of the column sits, they ENTER IT WITH THE FLAME IN HAND. Then in a matter of seconds a 5TH PERSON Dressed as nelson appears at the top holding the flame. There should be huge cheers and screaming. And gasping.. The 'nelson' Flies across the stadium and lights the torch at the top. Then huge fireworks display!!

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What does everyone think!?!?! Honestly, please!!

BTW this is Nelson's Column in London's trafalgar square!

http://www.solarnavigator.net/histor...are_london.jpg

I love the basic idea of your plan!' but I think the layout of the stadium and the way the torch is lit is a bit representative of this year.

I like the relay idea, Loukas, but I think it's a bit basic...no offense, lol. I like the Nelson's column idea though.

Thanks.. Can you explain How? :)