PSL was commissioned by West Design to provide a four-metre wide screen on the front of the cinema to show extracts from the movie, as well as an unusual triangular structure featuring three five-metre screens in the Square itself. These showed content specially created by Digital Insanity, in collaboration with Fox and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).
The unique collaboration between PSL and the team from ILM was also in evidence at the lavish after-show for Eragon, where 1,500 guests watched fire-breathing dragons flying around the Royal Courts of Justice. PSL provided five SLM R12+ Barco projectors, all flown, to project Digital Insanity's graphics and FX onto whitescreens. An additional R12+, fitted with a Catalyst mirror head, was used to run exceptional graphic footage of a dragon, seen to fly all the way round the venue.
PSL crews worked at both Leicester Square and the Royal Courts locations. Production manager Andy Cheesman led the Odeon team, which included Tom Mudd, Sean Starick and Simon Hudson. At the Royal Courts, the production manager was Mary Jefferson, working with Fergus Noble, Grant Orchard, Leif Wilson and Ian Haywood.
(Chris Henry)
