A judging panel of entertainment professionals shortlisted Noah Mitz's design for America’s Got Talent Season 14 for the Unscripted Series Award in the Live for Broadcast category in Live Design's 2020 Design Achievement Awards. Vote for the most outstanding projects now!
America’s Got Talent goes through a three-phase season starting with auditions that highlight the architecture of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Judge Cuts is the next phase with a larger lighting rig and uniquely crafted looks for each act. The season culminates with 36 acts at the Dolby Theatre where the lighting and creative teams are tasked with creating bespoke looks for each performance in a compressed timeline, while not showing any creative favoritism to one act over another. This season brought new challenges including the use of water, non-standard projection surfaces, pixel tape and exposure for LED light-up costumes.
"The lighting for this show won my nomination for the range of demands it skillfully satisfies as well as for the exciting television pictures it creates. Solo acts needing sculpted, individual lighting are followed by full-stage performances needing broad coverage for acrobatics and dancing, with effects lighting as a bow on the package. It’s pulled off impressively well. The fact that we know it all happens again every seven days makes it all the more remarkable." — Jeff Ravitz, lighting designer and judge for the Design Achievement Awards
- Production Company: PRG
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