Yup, this is what we do with our long weekends in this house...

[mstakenidentity]

As many of you know, Omniprop Productions will be performing Aristophanes Lysistrata at the Melbourne Fringe Festival later this year. It will be represented in the Fringe Guide by this image:



The question is, should we also use this image for the poster? So far we think yes if only because we can't be arsed doing that much work on it again. We though we should get some quick opinions from others, so I said I'd ask the internet.

Internet? Think this would make a good poster?

Comments

[dozingquinn.livejournal.com]

Picture looks good. Where are the words going to go? On the picture - under or over it? The headline words that you use will need to tie in with the picture - and draw the reader to want to read more. Puns are good. So are questions.

Without knowing this detail it's hard to have a holistic critique of the overall idea of the pic.

[...reading more responses] You could darken the top left of the picture and put a headline there. A few big bold words would work. The date & time could be placed at the bottom lower right.

You could also add the map of greece and overlay it on the stomach, to give it a bit of a tattoo effect. That would create a stronger link between the play and the image. As long as you keep the opacity low - so as not to draw the eye too much. You may need to slightly warp the map too - coz of the stomach curves. (ok I experimented to show what I mean - see link below).

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4565/playpicze6.jpg

I don't know how to insert pics here, because LJ likes to use non-standard code tags.

I trust copyright etc is all ok.

[mstakenidentity.livejournal.com]

Hey cool, thanks for testing that.

Pity a map of Greece is so bloody complicated and not easily recognisable, if only it'd been set in Italy...

As for copyright, it belongs to Seamus since he took the photo. I just did copyright law this semester as part of my course. From what I recall, mc_shamo has the right to the photograph, possibly the people who made the soldiers could kick up a stink, though I'm not sure, and the model (me) has no rights to the image at all (so a good thing the rights rest with my boyfriend, really)

[dozingquinn.livejournal.com]

If the image showed your face I believe you need to sign a model release to the photographer.

...just to nit pick.

[mstakenidentity.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you may be right about professional models, I'm not sure. I know that a street performer whose picture was taken was unsuccessful at claiming rights to it when it was used in a Qantas add, and it definitely showed her face. Maybe it's only if you are a specific model for a specific photographer you get rights?

I will ask my lecturer next time I see her.