Paris 2024 — Olympic & Paralympic Ceremonies

Paris 2024 tore up the rulebook: the first Olympic opening ceremony in history staged outside a stadium. Directed by Thomas Jolly, the show ran six kilometres down the Seine, with around a dozen artistic tableaux unfolding along the banks and on the monuments.

On a four-hour, multi-site live broadcast, the transitions are the story — they’re what hold a dozen separate scenes together. Onlyview sat inside the broadcast chain, playing the transition sequences that threaded the ceremony into one continuous narrative.

A month later, the Paralympic opening moved the spectacle onto architecture at the Place de la Concorde. The Concorde Obelisk was mapped in the colours of the French flag as La Marseillaise played, then transformed with graffiti-style imagery — described by organisers as the star of the show. Onlyview handled the video technology alongside Panasonic.

When the stage is a whole city, the media server stops being playback and becomes the narrative spine. That is the work Onlyview was built to do.