Ukrainian duo heads to the Eurovision Song Contest with a message: We're still here

(25 Apr 2024)
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Kyiv - 25 April 2024
1. Various of central train station
2. Wide of venue interior
3. Wide of participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 from Ukraine Jerry Heil and Alyona Alyona arriving
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Jerry Heil, participant of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 from Ukraine:
"Of course, we have a social mission and we will support the school reconstruction project because it's close to people worldwide, I believe. These symbols on our clothing are keys that speak for us. Not always in interviews will we be able to speak directly but this is something that may prompt people to ask us questions that we will then find easier to answer."
5. Wide of journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Alyona Alyona, participant of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 from Ukraine: ++MULTIPLE ANGLES++
"For many Ukrainians, these keys are the only thing left from their homes. They keep these phantom houses in their pockets like this. It's important to use these keys to unlock the childhoods of children who have now lost their classmates due to destroyed schools, who have lost a significant part of their childhood, who want to return from online learning scattered across Ukraine and around the world to offline learning."
7. Wide of panel
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Liudmyla Taranovych, teacher from the Velykokostromska school:
"This was the school where my children studied and now my grandchildren are studying. When on October 11, 2022, a Russian missile destroyed our school, it was pain, despair, hopelessness. My grandchildren hugged me and asked, 'Grandma, will they rebuild our school? Will it be as beautiful, flourishing, and bright as it was?'"
9. Wide of ceiling
10. Various of Heil and Alyona singing
11. Wide of people in a lounge
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Heil, participant of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 from Ukraine:
"We need to be visible for the world, we need to show that even now during the war our culture is developing and that Ukrainian music is something waiting for the world to be discovered, still."
13. Wide of painting by Ukrainian artist Yenhen Klimenko
14. Close of painting with writing reading (English) "World - help us"
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil, participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 from Ukraine:
Alyona: "We have to spread it and share it and show to the people how strong women and men are in our country."
Jerry: "Also, you remember why Eurovision appeared because the world needed to be united and it became united by music, so nowadays we like see the sense once again but even more powerful."
16. Various of paintings
17. Various of Heil and Alyona posing
18. Close of keys
19. Various of Alyona and Heil during interview
20. Wide of people leaving
21. Various of Alyona and Heil walking to the train
22. Close of railway display board
23. Wide of Eurovision team with Ukrainian flag
24. Wide of teachers from the Velykokostromska school Liudmyla Taranovych and Tetyana Mahda with Alyona and Heil
25. Mid of Alyona hugging someone
26. Mid of Heil taking a photo
27. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Jerry Heil, participant of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 from Ukraine:
"I wish everyone to feel that we are all just humans on this earth. Yet, at the same time, we can accomplish great things."
28. Mid of Alyona boarding the train
29. Mid of Heil boarding the train
30. Mid of Alyona and Heil singing their Eurovision song behind a window
31. Wide of train leaving
STORYLINE:
Even amid war, Ukraine finds time for the glittery, pop-filled Eurovision Song Contest.
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