Portelli and lighting designer Michael Veerkamp, both of Team Imagination, added the Nexus panels provided by the Los Angeles office of 4Wall Entertainment Lighting to the hit game show for its second season.
"Our lighting team was new to the show this season and we wanted to give things a refreshed look, while still retaining the program's signature feel, which has been so popular," said Portelli. "The producers were so thrilled with the added fun and vitality that Nexus brought to the set that they asked us to incorporate the panels into the next show we did with them. It is both exciting and uncommon when a producer even notices a lighting fixture, no less specifically asks for it."
The Team Imagination designers first encountered the Nexus Panels on a visit to LDI with 4Wall Entertainment Lighting. "Our vendor 4Wall works very hard with Chauvet and other manufacturers to get us exposed to the best and most current lighting fixtures hitting the market," said Portelli. "The Nexus panels made a powerful impression on us from the start."
Veerkamp and Portelli used 24 Nexus 4x4 panels, arranged in six groups of four panels each, on the Bet on Your Baby set. The panels were positioned in a semi-circle over the stage facing the audience between digital images of the toddlers participating in the show.
(Jim Evans)
