Live Design Online: All Access Staging provided the full scope of event staging for Super Bowl LVIII, handling everything from opening night through the post-game festivities – not to mention the always spectacular halftime show. With a nod to the glamor of Las Vegas, the entire production sparkled from start to finish.
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I am honestly not very interested in the super bowl. I did not watch it this year and I only watched the halftime show last year because I am a fan of Rihanna. However, these performances are a big deal every year and I am sure that they take a lot of planning and coordination. I am curious to know all of the behind the scenes work that get put in to make this show possible. I still have not seen the halftime show from this year, so I thought it was cool that there was an immersive video floor. I think this would have translated well based on the seating arrangement and the fact that most people watch it televised. I heard that the performers were on roller skates and I thought it was interested in how they problem solved to make the stage roller skater friendly. As someone who has a lot of performace expeience, i can comfirem how scary it is to dance on the wrong type of floors.
This was a super interesting article to read. One of my favorite part of the Super Bowl halftime show is the extensive news coverage it gets shortly after the performance, so I am never left wondering about the details of how something was done, because with such a large audience, there’s plenty of people wondering how something was done, and the information is put out there. However, I was honestly quite disappointed by this year’s halftime show. Yes, it was clearly high budget and had some cool lights and video elements, but I would honestly consider that to be the bare minimum of what the halftime show is. In a world where we have halftime shows with floating platforms and giant tigers, I was incredibly disappointed that there wasn’t a really cool technological feat that blew me away. It was interesting to read about how the platforms were prepared to make them fit together well and be a nice roller skating surface, but that’s not especially revolutionary. Then the platform was bending like crazy, so maybe they weren’t even that great. In combination with the actual performance, which felt weirdly short and cut off at the end, I’d give the halftime show probably a 4/10.
In recent years it has been really interesting to see how each year attempts to go even bigger and better than the last year's performance. Obviously, not all of them can do it and I think this year was good but I wouldn't say it made it into my top three Superbowl performances. That is why I enjoy seeing articles like that detail the process that went into the design and build because it is interesting for me to see the process and thoughts that went into the design. I do think it is interesting to me to see that every year even if I do not love the performance the more high tech that is weaved into the performance. The immersive video floor is something that i keep starting to see in the industry on big shows. It is hard to think about how the show could get any bigger, but inevitably it will and I will be excited to see the new tech they bring into it and how they implement it.
I never paid much attention to the tech in the halftime show until last year. I did watch the entire game this year with some friends and unfortunately watched the halftime show. I thought that the video floors and the piano were the coolest aspects of the show. Usher was as good as ever, so not that good, and the artists that joined Usher throughout the show were honestly more entertaining than Usher. Something I did find impressive was the costume changes because, while there was no need for that many different costumes, they were speedy and mostly unnoticeable. I was also impressed by the camera work the whole night. The switching was seamless and precise and the operators were professional and swift. I do look forward to watching future super bowls and dissecting from a techie point of view. I also look forward to the possibility that I might get to work on a super bowl halftime show in the future.
This is a very complementary article to the designers that made the Super Bowl halftime show possible, which is totally warranted. However, I must admit that I was disappointed but unsurprised that there was no mention or explanation about how the stage bounced towards the end of the performance. That was something that everyone I've talked to who has even the slightest bit of technical knowledge managed to pick up on, and managed to understand the possibility that that could be dangerous. As this was quite the complimentary article, I completely understand why they wouldn't put something like this in, as it is quite a serious critique, but I'm still disappointed nonetheless. I was hoping for an explanation as to why the stage bounced, hoping that it was a design decision made, and that everyone was aware, and that it was totally planned.There's a lot of factors that are really hard to consider when building and designing and transporting for a show like the halftime show, and I wish they'd gotten more into that as well. Specifically, I feel like they were missing a lot of the reasoning behind why certain decisions had to be made, or why certain things tend to happen. Granted, I do think that this article is meant more for casual onlookers than for production people like us.
The superbowl halftime show has been the only thing that connected me to football. The technical aspects have always intrigued me and my dad made it seem to be very important because it was one of the only American traditions we had. My family always got together around the tv when halftime was called and waited for all of the technical aspects to happen but also when the show was happening I would only be observing all of the technical aspects of the show. I think that knowing all of the restrictions that the NFL has for the performers is really important to think about because it not only affects how the environment looks after the show but also how the performers behave on the stages. At this year's halftime show, the set really intrigued me because of all the classes that we currently take and when the set started to bounce at the end because of the amount of people on the stage and how they were all moving I got a little nervous and scared that the set would break under them.
This is actually really interesting to learn about. I personally didn't watch the Super bowl, and I don't really understand football or why it's a thing. however that does not mean I am not interested in the building of the set for it. it is such a big halftime show every year that I am really curious as to how they produce it. also what we learned in class about how the stage can't make any indents on the grass or change anything about the field because they could be sued, that makes everything even more interesting. this year's stage obviously had a couple flaws, it was very bouncy and kind of freaked everyone out. I thought it was really funny hearing that discussion in class, because I wouldn't have known that stage literally was shaking and bouncing unless we talked about it in class, since they didn't watch the Super Bowl.
I couldn’t care less about the Super Bowl. It isn’t like I am against all sports and don't get the appeal(kinda). But it is more like I have no desire to watch a day-length show of football. However, my dad usually makes me bet on a winning team and watch at least 20 minutes of the game. I love music, so I do like watching the halftime shows. Mostly because they are all underwhelming and sometimes hilariously bad. The halftime show will forever be overhyped and the artists who perform many times, cannot handle an audience like the Superbowl. This year's show was Usher and was not too good– as per usual. The design of the show was the biggest problem for me. It felt so chaotic in a bad way, messy, and lacked a focal point. The wide-spread stage with over 100 backup dancers was hard to watch. Hopefully next year it will be better.
This was a very interesting article to read. It was interesting to learn about all of the groups behind the Super Bowl that made it and the halftime show possible. I watched the half time show and over all I enjoyed it. However, there were some high and low points in my opinion. I was quite the fan of the video tile floor on the stage deck. I rarely see good video media design and I thought that was designed and executed really well and that it added to the performance in stead of taking away from it. Although , over all, I didn’t feel like there was anything new over all. Like last year they rigged pregnant Rihanna and her dancers to fly and float and that was technically and aesthetically gorgeous. However, this year like they talked about in the article, the most technically advanced thing they did was figure out how to do roller skates. Overall it was still a cool halftime show and it was cool to learn about the design process.
I watched the entire Super bowl for the first time, and the halftime show was definitely a needed break. I really liked watching it after learning about many theatrical elements, and watching with other DPs definitely made it much more entertaining because of the comments we kept making. The quick installation was very surprising and impressive to me, as it only took a short ad break to set it up. The stage shaking at the end of the performance was definitely a concerning element, but it can also be assumed that that was to absorb the shock so that it didn’t ruin the grass that was going to be soon used for the game again. The amount of lights and VMD in the performance also made that really cool, that those were for sure my favorite element(I’m totally not biased). I really wish there was a video talking about the actual build and load in of the stage and other elements.
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