Always a challenging show, the Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show, featuring Bruno Mars with a guest shot by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, looked great with lighting designed by Bob Barhart of Full Flood in LA. "The rig was so spread out over five levels of the stadium and 400 linear feet per level," he explains. "You can’t really appreciate how difficult Super Bowl Halftime shows are to pull off, unless you have worked on a few. Adding in the “challenges” of this years venue and weather took that difficulty to a whole new level. It didn’t help me that I lost headset communications to the FOH spots right before the show and never got them back. I would have preferred snow flurries at halftime. The lighting looks better with a little movement in the beams," Barnhart adds with a smile.
He also gives kudos to his crew: "These guys work in sub freezing temperatures for 10 days to get that system loaded in and working. There were a few days they could not uncoil the cable because it was frozen."
Lighting Gear
80 PRG Best Boy 4000 Spot
322 Clay Paky Sharpy
220 Ayrton MagicPanel
220 Chroma Q Color Block II
57 Solaris Quasar 15K Strobe
12 Clay Paky A.LEDA B-EYE
15 Arc Lighting Brite Box Followspot
48 Par46
2 MR16 Mini Strip
2000 Feet of LED tape
80,000 PixMob hats with embedded LEDs
500 PixMob field panel
Lighting Control: PRG V676
Media Control; MA Lighting grandMA, via Green Hippo Hippotizers
Lighting Crew
Bob Barnhart, Lighting Designer
Pete Radice, Lighting Director
David Grill, Lighting Director
Tony Ward, Gaffer
Brian McKinnon, Best Boy
David Serralles, Best Boy
Paul Bell Jr. Best Boy
Keith Berk, Best Boy
Robb Minotte, Project Manager
Matt Geneczko, Lead Tech
Jeff Anderson, Lead Tech
Chris Conti, Lead Tech
Trevor Gooch, Tech
Bruce Honer, Spot Tech