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Friday, February 14, 2025
Time-Lapse Video: Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Stage Build
Live Design Online: Here's a time-lapse of the halftime stage set up, multi-area performances, and set breakdown courtesy of Sports Illustrated.
This is such a cool video! After watching it, I wonder how many people they have to do those changeovers. In addition, I wonder if they have rehearsal set ups and tear downs in the days before the Super Bowl. This reminds me of something my high school theatre director said about scene changes. She once commented that it’s like choreography, that it requires great precision to look that natural and effortless. If you follow that simile, then these technicians are like dancers. I also wonder whose job it is to choreograph these changeovers, does the Super Bowl hire a special team for that or does it go to the run crew leads? I would be curious to know the setup of that. Overall, the speed, precision, and efficiency of the Super Bowl halftime set up and tear down process is truly impressive and I would love to know more about the process leading up to that night.
This was an absolutely amazing video to see. I love time lapse videos of things being put together and taken down, it is such a cool way to see the big picture of a process and what it takes for a massive event like the Superbowl halftime show to happen. The speed at which the setup and strike of the set occurred in proportion to the length of time that the actual show was is really impressive, and seeing the entire thing squished into one 30 second video really makes the work done to produce these shows that much more impressive. I really liked how I was able to get a visual picture of the halftime show crews through this video, and that made me really interested in seeing some sort of run sheet or other paperwork explaining exactly how the crews were organized, how many crew members there were, and what each individual person’s duty was.
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This is such a cool video! After watching it, I wonder how many people they have to do those changeovers. In addition, I wonder if they have rehearsal set ups and tear downs in the days before the Super Bowl. This reminds me of something my high school theatre director said about scene changes. She once commented that it’s like choreography, that it requires great precision to look that natural and effortless. If you follow that simile, then these technicians are like dancers. I also wonder whose job it is to choreograph these changeovers, does the Super Bowl hire a special team for that or does it go to the run crew leads? I would be curious to know the setup of that. Overall, the speed, precision, and efficiency of the Super Bowl halftime set up and tear down process is truly impressive and I would love to know more about the process leading up to that night.
This was an absolutely amazing video to see. I love time lapse videos of things being put together and taken down, it is such a cool way to see the big picture of a process and what it takes for a massive event like the Superbowl halftime show to happen. The speed at which the setup and strike of the set occurred in proportion to the length of time that the actual show was is really impressive, and seeing the entire thing squished into one 30 second video really makes the work done to produce these shows that much more impressive. I really liked how I was able to get a visual picture of the halftime show crews through this video, and that made me really interested in seeing some sort of run sheet or other paperwork explaining exactly how the crews were organized, how many crew members there were, and what each individual person’s duty was.
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