PSL provided full technical support as official audio-visual supplier to Salon International, the UK hairdressing industry event held this year at London’s dockland venue ExCeL. The event management team, led by Sophi Bruce and Chris White of new creative agency Bluw Creative Solutions, designed a 1700-seat theatre environment to stage the hair fashion shows. PSL was awarded the contract to manage the build and provide full technical support for the live hair fashion theatre and Salon seminar programmes.

A section of one of the halls was separated via drapes to create the main theatre. PSL provided the main staging and 900 feet of mini beam truss suspended from 38 half tonne electric motors to create the various lighting effects the show required. This involved using over 36 moving and 180 generic lights, including Studio Beam PCs, the latest in wash lights and Cyberlight Turbos to create the different colours and textures. Over 240 cues were programmed in under 10 hours.A Portable Production Unit was used to feed live images from Sony D30 cameras to the two 12 x 9 screens either side of the main stage and three speaker clusters were flown from the truss for sound. PSL also provided presentation equipment for many of the exhibitors there and the seminar break out rooms including a 3 x 3 cubewall, cameras and vision mixing for Toni & Guy and plasma screens for Vidal Sassoon.


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