Live Design: All Access Staging and Productions built the set and staging for Super Bowl LII Pepsi Halftime Show featuring Justin Timberlake, with production design by Bruce Rodgers of Tribe, Inc, working with Timberlake's designer Nick Whitehouse and Josh Zangen of Fireplay, and lighting design by Bob Barnhart.
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I always like looking at drawings of really huge productions. It's cool to see something on TV and think about how huge it is, then see the drawings and realize "I can do that." Granted, these drawings are huge scope and don't really show details so it still kind of seems not so tangible. I would be interested to see some more detailed drawings though. There has also got to me some crazy good ideas in these drawings but they are either simplified, or too small to see in this publication. I am also curious to know more about these wheels. They look like giant pneumatic casters, almost like car tires, but again, there seems to be a lot of detail missing from these views. I am glad to see the catwalk there because that was the main thing I was impressed with. I can't really tell, but it kind of looks like there is some ModTruss in there which is cool to see as well.
Every time I find myself watching the Super Bowl, I always make sure to watch the halftime show for the technical elements. It always amazes me how fast the whole thing gets set up and taken apart. The Super Bowl is the ultimate run crew assignment. Also, while I can imagine how the six minute set up time and six minute strike time would be a giant consideration, I had not considered that the freezing cold Minnesota temperatures would be the big curve ball for this design. I love looking through technical drawings to see how all the different pieces of the larger puzzle fit together to make the one, large, working machine. These drawing in particular have so many layers to them because this concert set had so many different parts to it. It is really cool to see what the finished product looks like, and then being able to flip through and see all the inner parts and the skeleton framework of it all. It is pretty amazing to think how one day I will be able to read these drawing more than just gawk at them, and that I could have the skills to draw them up myself.
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