A judging panel of entertainment professionals shortlisted Bob Dickinson & Noah Mitz's design for The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for the Awards Show Lighting Award in the Live for Broadcast category in Live Design's 2020 Design Achievement Awards. Vote for the most outstanding projects now!
One of the largest live broadcast television music specials each year, this year's Grammys featured lighting design by Bob Dickinson and Noah Mitz of Full Flood, who were supported by lighting directors Madigan Stehly, Will Gossett, Andy O’Reilly (programmer), Ryan Tanker (programmer), Patrick Boozer (programmer), and Bryan Klunder. While the designers have time in advance to design the main “shell” set for the show, the individual performances and associated looks are mostly confirmed in the two weeks leading up to the show, which makes for a very tight schedule to design, implement, program, and rehearse. This year was highlighted with the first large scale live broadcast use of the Claypaky Xtylos fixtures on the Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani performance as well as the GLP FR10 Bars on the Rosalia performance.
"Lighting for the Grammys requires a solid combination of traditional broadcast lighting, concert-tour cuing that also works for the camera, and a sense of mammoth scale in order to maintain the show’s reputation as the preeminent music awards show. In the submitted version, the hosts look great and the performances range from edgy and dramatic, to broad and full of flash. When they break the lighting rules with bold color, unexpected angles, and carefully crafted blow-outs , the rules become rewritten as a new standard, but it’s always creative and broadcast-proper. The directors try to trip up the LDs with unconventionally-located segment placements, but it looks terrific wherever they are. The reverse shot is almost as fun to watch as the stage, and the way the audience — full of music royalty — is lit creates the final piece of the puzzle of an expansive visual composition." — Jeff Ravitz, lighting designer and judge for the Design Achievement Awards
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