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

[largestprime.livejournal.com]

it's kinda hot...

I like it, it's edgy, it will make some people feel uncomfortable, but most importantly, it will grab people's attention.

I'm going to be the dickhead here and just say that you shouldn't care too much if people complain about things being un-PC. As long as the messages are connected with the point you are trying to make, then everything is ok.

...and you're going to hate me for this, but I'm going to suggest a very fiddly and time-consuming modification. You should put the writing ON the stomach. Like, get some war paint and physically write it on your tum. If the writing is a bit rough around the edges, all the better. Other ideas? Maybe even get a projector and project the writing onto the stomach... I just think it would look awesome to have writing that follows the uneven contours of a stomach rather that stupid, flat, boring writing overlayed in a corner somewhere.

You may also want to twist one of the blue soldiers just a tad so that it isn't at exactly the same angle as the other blue soldier. Maybe also think about photoshopping the crinkled sheets out of the picture completely. If you can find someone with a good SLR and some good lenses, you could also try shooting with a very shallow depth-of-field (i.e. less than f/1.8 aperture) and play around with your plane of focus.

I absolutely love the idea though (sorry to be so ergh about it). I really wish I was there to see the play!

[mstakenidentity.livejournal.com]

Ah! So many ideas!

Thank you, food for thought always good :-)

And as for time-consuming, we will almost certainly have to re-shoot for the actually poster anyway since that picture was taken with a pretty piss-weak camera (good enough for day to day, but not professional stuff) so it won't be that more time consuming anyway.