According to a brief note made public yesterday afternoon by the Andorran government, the Department of Tourism of Andorra will grant �31,200 for the production of the country's videoclip for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. In addition, the name of the company behind Andorra's 2008 project has been revealed: It is Món Musical.
Although the Andorran public broadcaster ATV has not yet confirmed that Gisela will be their next representative at the Eurovision Song Contest, preparations are underway for promotion of the next entrant. After weeks of speculation, the name of the company that will hold the Andorra's project for 2008 has been revealed: Món Musical (Musical World). This audiovisual Andorran corporation will receive €31,200 from the Department of Tourism with the aim of making up the videoclip for the Andorran 2008 Eurovision entry.
As the Department of Turism stated yesterday afternoon in a public note, the Department itself "will collaborate in the production and selection of the images that will appear in the promotional videoclip of the song that will represent Andorra in 2008". Moreover, it seems that the intention of the Andorran Government is to make up a video exploitable for other purposes: "The Department of Turism thinks it's appropriate to register the clips in high definition, in order to use those images in foreseeable promotional campaigns".
The executive director of Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra (RTVA) has asked for time to close the necessary agreements to fix the 2008 Andorran Eurovision project. The new tendency depicted lately by the Andorran public television has not been free of controversy: criticism has flooded from musical and political statements against the privatization and closure of the selection procedure, and the possibility that the Andorran entry could be sung mainly in English.
