Showing posts with label rope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rope. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2024

The Bigger & Barer sale and my newest ENF video Haunted House of Humiliation

It's hard to believe summer is over. Before it ends I have lots of exciting things in store for this month and for sENFtember. As you all know, The Immodest Collection volume 4 will be released on 9/1, the first day of sENFtember. The book will feature the return of Erica Hardy and Caitlin McNally from The Immodest Collection volume 1 , The Mistress and Riot from the Immodest Collection volume 2, and Rana Halaweh from Indecent Exposure Therapy To give folks who have not read these books a chance to catch up, for the whole month of August, I am running the Bigger and Barer sale! From now until 8/31/24, you can get the Immodest Collections volumes 1 and 2 AND Indecent Exposure Therapy each for 50% off! That's $1.50 for each story. So, with the final month of summer, use that time to catch up on some spicy exposed and embarrassed erotica and turn up the heat even more! Each book can be purchased on Smashwords . I hope everyone who has not read these books gets a chance to cash in on more enf/euf erotica! In addition, I will be releasing a free story featuring Riot and The Mistress that takes place between the Immodest Collection volume 2 and 4 on my Medium page

Because of these writing projects, I took a month off from filming. So when I resumed again, I was ready to get back into the swing of things with filming and took a step into another area of growth for me, and that was shooting two ENF films back to back.

I previously hesitated into doing two in a row because I did not know the length of time it would take to shoot one clip. I wanted to give myself time to mentally process directing, adjusting lights, and filming and the first 5 films took roughly about 4 hours each. However to be more cost effective, I know a lot of professionals shoot multiple clips within that 4 hour time frame. This makes sense in terms of being cost effective, especially when it comes to booking a shoot space.

So once I found a location I was excited to work with Violet Vixen and Devious Skunk again. My long term goal is to work with a wide range of models but since I'm still new and I have such good fun shooting with both Violet and Skunk, I knew it would be a fun process.

The concept I wanted to do was a relatively simple ENF storyline in terms of setting up ENF gags and a common plot that I see is a real estate agent visiting a house story. The idea is always a model going into rooms with their clothes disappearing. It seems like a basic idea but that was where the fun came in writing the characters. With Violet I envisioned her being a Type A, bossy real estate agent obsessed with a perfect record so that when she is exposed, it makes the contrast nice in terms of focusing on her humiliation. 
 

 

The challenges to this shoot. Which I am still trying to figure out is making seamless cuts between pre and post stripping. For ease of shooting, I break things in chunks so that dialogue is easier to act out and memorize. I also think this makes for stronger performances as there is mental effort put into wondering what the next line is. 

Of course, a seamless cut makes for a smoother transition but here in lies one of the challenges to directing. I could do take after take hoping that the model will eventually get a long page of dialogue down in one take without any slip ups. However, there are other things to keep in mind and that's the models physical and mental well being. It was HOT that day, at least into 90 degree range and to keep sound off I had to switch between turning air conditioners on and off for sound. Violet and Skunk each had to wear business attire and so the risk of doing take after take could have been exhaustion or worse dehydrating them to the point of passing out which I did not want. So making sure water was in supply and also doing as much as I can to minimize wait time wad this shoots lesson, which meant stopping longer to review my shots and make sure I got what I needed before moving forward. 
 




I also have learned more about writing in that I need to trim up and be concise with dialogue. When I write scripts I'm used to pouring the dialogue out as it flows through my imagination, cutting up bits I don't feel are needed later. Much of the extra dialogue is what I think is embarrassing for the character but not exactly what the model will think when they make acting choices. It also adds unnecessary time to shooting because the model wants to do their best to get the lines right and it can be easier on them if I cut out the excess that isn't important. 

I also learned a lot about my own stamina for shooting as it was essentially a full work day. While I was tired by the end, it was satisfying to walk away with two full clips that have been fun editing. Violet stars in Haunted House of Humiliation, in which a real estate agent finds out why anyone who buys the home abandons it out of fear of being stripped naked and spanked. It is available now on my MV page. Skunks film will be not so much a part two and more of a sequel to this story which I will reveal likely at the start of October for the scary season.

As always I appreciate the support from you all and hope you enjoy the latest ENF film!

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Getting blasphemous for the 4th of July

I never celebrated Independence Day and today feels particularly surreal in light of all of the recent Supreme Court rulings that empower cities to imprison the homeless, allow bribery for politicians, and for presidents to rule despite being tried for crimes. I've not been a good mental space this week as a result. But, something that gives me a sense of joy, which is important to manage in times of despair and hopelessness to allow survival to fight. So for Independence Day, we're getting blasphemous as I release my newest ENF/EUF film, The Embarrassed Naked Nun

June ended with me feeling slightly burnt out, much of it stemming from work but also in finding what my mental/emotional limit is in terms of shooting ENF films. The most recent film, The Embarrassed Naked Nun was the third film I shot in this month. It of course was fun and a great learning experience and also a bit more exhausting this time around since we shot it at night. As fun as this has been, it also takes time to recover. I love the editing process and it keeps me from being present and engaging in rest on the weekends, which is the only chance I have to recover. With 3 shoots booked in one month I realize I need to find a more balanced schedule with shooting so that it can still be fun for me and also be sustainable long term. 

Each shoot comes with excitement and also anxiety. The anxiety stems from my own worry about not knowing what to do if a shot doesn't work out or if I'm running behind. So that energy carries in the weeks leading up to the shoot. This gets added when I think of location, getting props, and planning my shots. It would be one thing if this was my sole job, but I also work in healthcare slightly over 40 hours. While it was nice to see I could do multiple shoots in one month, I am glad to have seen that this might be my ceiling for now and why for July I'll take a break from shooting so I can focus on wrapping up the Immodest Collection volume 4.

I am glad I was able to complete Embarrassed Naked Nun before this break. This was one of the first shoots I had on my list of ones to prioritize. I have plans to upload things on Clips4Sale and needed 10 videos. Being brand new to this, I wanted to keep story lines simple in terms of shooting, things that wouldn't require a lot of setup/tricks for the exposure scenes. Officer Undressed was easy because Skunk would simply strip in and out of a room that was off camera, which would make editing easier. Ariel Anderssen would strip in real time as part of her story in Embarrassment is Forever and so it was just a still shot on her for the whole clip. 

Embarrassed Naked Nun was planned to be my third film but was delayed after had the confidence to film Embarrassment Quest and Cat Embarrasses the Cartoonist. The Nun script was simple in that the Nun would get stripped as the possessed Matthew turns the lights off. My friend Violet Vixen is someone I met in the local kink community and have enjoyed doing rope scenes before. When I proposed shooting ENF with her she was totally down. She was also new to ENF so it was fun to introduce a new performer to this kink and see how she approached her character. 


 

It took Violet some time to get the sense of her character, but once we got to the stripping scene, she started to get the contrast between the shy-nice-timid seeming Sister Francesca and the kinky, expletive using, sexually repressed  nun that is slowly exposed over time. Violet helped me realize there are a lot of ways to help a performer with character, I used to just write dialogue and plan to work with them during shooting on getting the performance. She highlighted the other important aspect, which was understanding the character to help with the performance. For example, she learned more about her character as we shot the stripping scene and shot the outdoor scene last. She shared that had we shot that first, she would have had less idea about her character and the context of her conversation with Father Dyart. I appreciated her dedication to acting. Having tied with her before, I felt more comfortable trying the pentagram harness and rope panties, something I was most looking forward to because they were the first ties I taught myself when I got into Shibari.


 

The highlight of this film experience was shooting late, waaaaay past both our bed times (I know, we're truly edgy people). I needed the night effect so that when the lights go out it is completely black and with summer, it isn't getting dark until that time. Weather was also a rival as I wanted to get an outdoor shot of Violet under the lamp post, a slight nod to The Exorcist. We were able to get the shot just as it was about to rain but it didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped, and so I opted for an alternate choice, using the still frame of Violet in black and white and zooming in with the audio laid over. As much as I would've liked the outdoor shot, I do like the eerie vibe of the zoom in to her eyes. 


 

I really wanted to shoot this film because for this embarrassment and exposure story, I wanted to focus on a type of embarrassment of exposing secrets, and the idea of a nun having a very sexual side that she's tried to hide that's represented by the racy lingerie she wears was a hot ENF story. The contrast of Violet in her conservative nun habit to her revealing lingerie and then rope underwear I think makes for a wonderful ENF/EUF film that I hope you all enjoy.