HARMAN Professional Solutions, the global leader in audio, lighting, and video and control technologies, today announced Martin Professional and Carnival Cruise Line’s latest entertainment lighting collaboration aboard Carnival’s recently-built and most technically-advanced cruise ship to date, the Helios-class Carnival Jubilee. The Jubilee initially set sail from Galveston, Texas, USA in December 2023 and currently offers six- to nine-day cruises with destinations throughout the Western Caribbean Sea.
into each of Jubilee’s many entertainment venues, theaters, and performance spaces, Carnival’s design team needed a solution that encompassed versatile and showstopping performance; employed the latest, state-of-the art technologies; and could ensure maximum uptime, reliability, and ease of serviceability.
Through a long and successful partnership outfitting Carnival’s entire fleet of advanced vessels, Martin Professional was selected to provide entertainment lighting for all of Jubilee’s entertainment venues. To surpass every lighting need and requirement in the design, a variety of Martin’s most powerful, efficient and progressive fixture ranges were specified for installation throughout the ship’s venues, including MAC Ultra, MAC Aura, ERA, ELP, Exterior, Atomic, VC, and more.
“Having the best equipment that we can get creates the ability for us to really immerse the room in light. … lighting can be impactful to create moods, to create atmospheres, and the better the product that we have, the better we’re allowed to create that,” said James Chipman, Production Lighting Supervisor, Creative Development Team, Carnival Cruise Line. “We like the development and support that Martin brings. They’re always constantly showing us new fixtures, introducing us to new things and new ideas, and introducing better, brighter and more reliable products.”
In addition to requiring the world’s top-performing fixtures to beautifully illuminate Jubilee’s diverse shows and venues, it was also critically important for the Carnival team to have fixtures that could deliver uncompromising reliability. “Martin fixtures are quite reliable and are easy to be maintained and easy to be cleaned, “ said Silviu Ardelean, Supervisor, Entertainment Technical, Carnival Cruise Line. “It’s easy for us to train the technicians because the way Martin fixtures are made are modular, and it’s easy to remove parts, clean them up, and put them back together.”
Alexander Nelson, Entertainment Lighting and Special Effects, Carnival Cruise Line, agrees, “For me, serviceability is key. That’s the number one thing that I look for. Can I have this fixture on day after day running hard for their shows for seven to 10 years? And the answer is yes.”
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