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Al Gurdon lights Super Bowl halftime show with Elation

On February 13, 2022, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige took the stage for the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, added with surprise performances from 50 Cent and Anderson.Paak.

Super Bowl halftime veteran Al Gurdon of Incandescent Design was back lighting the show. This was the designer’s sixth time lighting the event. He chose a collection of Elation Professional luminaires including Proteus Maximus, new Proteus Excalibur, and Protron 3K Color.

Entertainment design group 22 Degrees supported Gurdon in his design including lighting direction. The lighting system, made up of over 600 lighting fixtures, was supplied by PRG. Executive Producer of the show was Roc Nation.

Although the IP rating was not a requisite for this year’s show as the field at SoFi Stadium is covered, Gurdon says the shuttering, and most importantly, their brightness made the Proteus Maximus fixtures a choice for this year’s halftime show. He incorporated 94 Maximus in his design, arrayed around the building and mainly used for key light.

“The brightness at significant throws was particularly important in this halftime show as we were shooting across the borderline between full daylight and full night”, says Gurdon. Because the precise duration of the first half of the game was not predictable, they did not know what sort of ambient conditions they would eventually shoot in. “As it turned out, the first half was very quick and we broadcast the show at the earliest and brightest time we had ever seen it.”

“The set design concept for the show (Es Devlin) was a series of iconic buildings from the Compton neighborhood, sitting on a field cloth of Los Angeles from the air”, says Gurdon. “I wanted something that would give me a good searchlight effect. I was keen to have the visible fixtures feel like a motivated part of the environment, rather than ‘just a bunch of lights’.” Eighty-four Proteus Excalibur fixtures were arrayed on field carts on both sidelines and on audio carts that created a ring around the field.

Rigged next to the Proteus Maximus, 106 Protron 3K Color, an RGBW strobe light with 40,000 lumens of power, provided a stadium-sized flash effect. Gurdon says he is a big fan of strobes and often prefers to simply accent the music using them.

(Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

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