Burns Park Players: Oliver!

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Ever since learning about the Burns Park Players in 2003 (when I was blown away by their production of The Music Man), I’ve harbored wishes to design one of their posters. So I was delighted to learn that UM student Liam White’s design for the Oliver! poster featured a portrait of Oliver, and that I would get to take it.

I shot the young actor who played Oliver in my studio using only natural light and a reflector against a black background. Producer Susan Hurwitz rightly felt the images out of the camera were too contemporary looking. Post production work in Photoshop gave the image a more distressed, dramatic look. Liam added the London skyline in his layout. Successful collaboration.

flickr slideshow of my pre-production and production images.

Visit the Burns Park Players website to learn about upcoming produtions.

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See also:

• Burns Park Players: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Feb 10, 2011)
• Burns Park Players: Getting Ready to Succeed! (Feb 1, 2011)
• Burns Park Players: Guys and Dolls (Feb 11, 2010)
• Burns Park Players: Annie Get Your Gun (Feb 13, 2009)
• Burns Park Players: Beauty and the Beast (Feb 26, 2008)
• Goose Joins the Set Crew (Feb 1, 2008)
• Auspicious Beginnings (Jan 25, 2008)