Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, that?s a great shot - nice composition and poses with moody lighting. I like it! Best wishes, Charlie www.charlie-chan.co.uk On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:55, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > Leica M9, 35mm Summilux > > http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/805499.html > > So ... how do you do a poster for Othello? There have been posters for > Othello for four hundred years. After Curio Theatre asked me to work on > this I looked at a lot of them. Most of the contemporary posters for the > play feature some aspect of Othello strangling Desdemona (spoilers, it > happens) -- lots of hands on throats. And the way I look at it, Othello > can either be a play about Othello, or it can be a play about Iago, but > it's never a play about Desdemona -- though she always gets a lot of face > time on the posters. It worried me going in that I might fall into a > visual rut, so I was actually a bit relieved when the scheduling wouldn't > allow Desdemona to be there for the shoot (I had to do it late at night). > > I wanted to focus on, two things, one the military aspect and two the part > of the play that exists before everything blows up, the very beginning > when two warriors return from battle and I imagined going in "what if I > was some photographer sent out to do a hero magazine cover for two dudes > who just beat the Turkish navy? I wouldn't know the backstory, I wouldn't > know that Iago's got all this plotting going on that he's just been passed > over for promotion, I'd just be like "stand here and look heroic" and then > it's up to the actor (in this case the very capable Brian McCaann, to tell > the subtitles of his character through his body language -- so you learn > who Iago is through Brian's complex subtitles, and you learn who Othello > is by Steve Wright's body language and how he decides what Othello would > do and not through me going "alright, let's strangle someone?. > > > Kyle > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information