All eyes turn to London for the opening ceremony of the 2012 olymipic games

The eyes of the world will be on London for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Ceremony will provide an opportunity for the world to view the artistic expression of the Artistic Director Danny Boyle(yes the Slumdog Millionaire dude) and his team, and the culture of the Host City and the UK. There are certain elements that must feature in every Ceremony, as outlined in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) charter. The artistic performance of the Ceremony then gets underway and welcomes the world to the London 2012 Games.
The name of the Olympic Opening Ceremony show will be ‘Isles of Wonder’ and the worldwide broadcast will commence at 9pm. The Ceremony will kick off with the sound of the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, produced by the Whitechapel Foundry, and the Stadium will be transformed into the British countryside for opening scene ‘Green and Pleasant’, which includes real farmyard animals. Danny Boyle, Artistic Director of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, said: ‘Our Isles of Wonder salutes and celebrates the exuberant creativity of the British genius in an Opening Ceremony that we hope will be as unpredictable and inventive as the British people.’. it is said that the sum of  about 27 million pound was spent on the opening ceremony alone and about 8.4 billion pounds has been spent over the last seven years on planning, construction and disruptions, in preparations of this Olympic games, it is also estimated that about 1 billion people would watch the opening ceremony. So are you going to be part of the 1 billion peeps