How to design a set for such an elaborate concert production? Model it after one of the nation's most famed cultural landmarks -- the Hollywood Bowl. Working with lighting designers Peter Moore and Mark Pranzini (Lightspeed Productions), Hariton and Baral emulated the legendary Los Angeles amphitheatre's dome-like structure and tunnel of colour lighted arches in the ship's theatre, using X-Chip LED chips from Acclaim Lighting.
"Once we decided on the concept of the Hollywood Bowl, we started looking for a lighting product that could do indirect LED lighting, that we could actually build into the set," said Hariton. "We had been doing LED lighting with other products in the past, and we needed something that was an upgrade from what we had been using."
For more on the Independence of the Seas, see the July/August issue of Lighting&Sound magazine.
(Jim Evans)
