This was the first promo I did for Curio. The coverage of Twelfth Night had worked out pretty well, considering what a seat-of-the-pants thing it was, and doing this promo was the first workout I had with the new Panasonic hi-def camera. Oleanna is a very intense play, and it practically begs people to discuss issues of power, feminism and male-female relationships. And by casting Paul Kuhn and Erika Hicks, race is now in the mix as well. But we’re here to promote the play, not annotate it or tell people what to think about it, so a lot of the material we shot about those things was placed to one side. My main interest here was to make it look clean and professional. Techie note. My camera shoots full hi-def, with is 1920 by 1080 pixels. But this was never going to be shown as a hi-def thing: so, I built the project into a smaller area, which let me cut to close-ups of the actors without losing image quality or needing a second camera.
