All advised, the efficiency required the participation of some 800 individuals, from digital camera operators to stage crews to Rihanna and her 80 dancers and 7 band members. It additionally required quite a lot of constructing. In order to reduce the burden on the sector, the stage Rihanna carried out on needed to be constructed out of not more than 15 rolling constructions (known as “carts”). 

Because of the form of the tunnels main all the way down to discipline stage at State Farm, All Access—the corporate answerable for fabricating the stage—needed to construct platforms with stairs that might be tilted up for transport. The carts vary in form from 10 by 24 ft to eight by 31 ft, and each weighs anyplace from 2,000 to 4,000 kilos and is outfitted with “turf tires” (not a technical time period) designed to roll gently and evenly over the grass. “You don’t want to have a player taken out of the game on concussion protocol because we left hard spots on the floor,” says Tommy Rose, All Access’ staging supervisor. “We are really mindful about that.” 

Then there are the platforms themselves. Each one, roughly 10 by 17.5 ft, needed to be saved up by these trusses through the first half of the sport after which guided all the way down to discipline stage on artificial cables in these valuable seven-plus minutes the stage was being arrange utilizing a sequence of automated motors. The backside of every one was affixed with 512 lights choreographed to maneuver together with Rihanna’s efficiency. The platforms additionally needed to be returned to the trusses and keep there till the sport was over. And in contrast to the tools used for earlier halftime reveals, they couldn’t be wheeled out and in of the stadium simply, that means among the ultimate rehearsals earlier than the Big Game needed to be carried out within the stadium, not at an off-site location like in earlier years. 

“This will be, in my opinion, the most technically advanced Super Bowl halftime show that’s ever been done because of the amount of tech used to move the platforms,” says Aaron Siebert, the venture lead from Tait Towers, which made the platforms.