The Sound of Embarrassment - Using sound to tell an ENF story in A GI Joe ENF Parody

 With the release of GI Joe: Knowing is Half the Embarrassment, I learned some new insight into why I enjoy editing so much. It's finding ways of telling a story behind the script. Knowing is Half the Embarrassment is a story parodying the public service educational segments that would happen after each episode, which Devious Skunk was happy to give a lesson in survival.

 

I thought GI Joe would be  a fun enf parody because much of the way we view GI Joe is patriotism and praising a franchise that represents military and the United States. I think GI Joe portrays its characters as overly heroic, mainly as a means to selling the toys to kids, and in doing so, putting them in stories that are somewhat corny. Of course this came from an era of Saturday morning cartoons where they did want kids to learn lessons about being "good" and in this, a specific type of perfection that I love to strip away in an ENF script. Bushwack is loosely based off of the G.I. Joe character, Lady Jaye  who uses a spear as a weapon. Lady Jaye actually had her own embarrassed exposure moment in the cartoon. 

 

 This was the first video we shot before shooting Embarrassment of the Ring. I did this because my intent was for GI Joe: Embarrassment is Half the Battle a simple story in which much of the stripping would happen off camera through implication. The comedy in the stripping gags would occur through clothes being torn off camera by both bear attack and branches being ripped off. This would mean Skunk would be off camera acting as if she were losing her clothes from animal attack and being lost in the woods. You will see without surprise that she did this well, delivering some funny improvised dialogue about an inappropriate bear attacking her or panicking in a tearful frenzy as she gets lost in the woods. With each time watching the clip I continued to laugh as she plays up the over-dramatic fear and panic of being lost, which makes the scene that much funnier.

 This would have otherwise been a simple clip to edit being that there were only a few shots I spliced together. The true work was finding the sound effects to add more realism to what happens to Bushwack off camera. This included various sounds of a bear growling and snarling, funny sounds of a spear falling from the air, as well as my favorite, clothes ripping. The clothes rip effect is actually something I recorded with an old shirt I tore up. I did this after feeling limited by the ripping sound effects I found online. There are lots of different ways to tear clothes to get a different variation of sound and that was perhaps the most interesting part of editing this time, syncing the different length/intensity of a rip depending on the situation. A brief quick rip might make sense for the beginning, but then a longer, louder rip would be more fitting in the end to imply more clothes have been torn off. This gets challenging because it really requires to listen to find the perfect timing. Too long of a gap and the surprise and smoothness of storytelling is disrupted because the audience might think "did something happen with my audio?" If the effect comes too soon well then it ruins the surprise and doesn't really have the same effect. I don't know what it is, but I get the same joy and elation I get from getting a gorgeous shot as I do when the dialogue and sound effect match up at the same time. 

I also had a fun time finding sounds of bushes and twigs snapping as Bushwack gets lost in the woods. The direction was vaguely written in that, Bushwack would get lost in the woods. Everything you hear is Skunk improvising and every time I listen I laugh with how well she did building up the tension from a cocky, confident Bushwack to a scared, sniveling Bushwack. I wanted to start subtly with a few snapping sounds of trees. As she begins navigating through the woods was when I wanted to add more sounds of bushes and increase the frequency of snapping as she starts to get scared. Again, my favorite part is the sound of the clothing rips as it creates a vision of clothes being ripped off by accident, which as an erotica writer, is more effective in evoking the image of embarrassed exposure than if we had shot it ourselves. I actually got this idea from The Silmarillion in which the character Nienor is written to have wandered in the woods and have had her clothes ripped off by the end of her journey and is found naked. So, making an ENF clip based on Lord of the Rings wasn't completely random, Tolkien may have been an ENF fan too! 

 The final sequence with the "Laser-amo" was more straight forward in that I just needed a laser sound effect. I wanted this to be a drawn out stripping where Bushwack gets stripped bit by bit with each laser before ending up naked. It was also a fun moment to break the meta and have Bushwack mention "ENF." I thought it would work in this story because the perfect story for a lesson on embarrassed naked females would be in a lief lesson type setting as in G.I. Joe. I would like to do an ENF lecture series on well...ENF in the future, but this was a fun little nod to my favorite kink.  We hope you enjoy GI Joe: Embarrassment is Half the Battle  and continue to see Skunk's amazing talent in being a chameleon for portraying so many different characters.

 

 

  

Commanded by Skunk - Exploring different forms of humiliation

 Around this time would've been the year anniversary of when I reached out to Devious Skunk to start my career in producing enf content. This comes with the release of Spy vs the Commander - Skunk's Uniform Stolen! This was actually the first video we shot before we shot The Men in Black versus the Kinky Clownians. The idea of this story stemmed from my love of the exposure trope of a character's clothes being stolen and used for a disguise. This is often shown in a lot of action-type movies, sometimes not even showing the actual removal of one's clothes, instead one shot will portray the protagonist and the other character,  with the following scene to show the protagonist wearing the character's clothes. Sometimes we would get to see the character stripped of their clothes and tied up, a double whammy of humiliation. G.I. Joe often used this trope both in the comics and the TV show.

 

 

I also highlighted this trope in a fanfiction story featuring Black Widow in Black Widow's Bad Luck. In this story Black Widow sneaks around, stripping guards of their clothes before she gets caught and is stripped herself. It's one of my earliest stories and one of my most popular ones.

 Thus, that was the idea I had when I created Commander Skunk. I liked the idea of a dominant boss who demeans her soldiers only to be stripped and humiliated as she's tied up in her panties and later, no clothes at all. Still, I didn't feel this was quite enough, I wanted to do something else to make this ENF clip more than just a clothed/unclothed story.

As I have said before, erotic embarrassment and exposure is not just about the nudity/panty exposure, it's about exposing someone's secrets. Most folks have no problems with being seen naked or in their underwear, but it's when there's a detail they don't want people to know about that makes it embarrassing. I thought it would be fun to be in a situation where in being stripped and tied up, that The Commander had a sexual fantasy of this but didn't want anyone to know. This led to the funny premise of her bossing the Spy, to do what she wants him to do to her. We both enjoyed this idea because of how silly it was because in turning the tables, the Spy is now stuck at the mercy of the Commander before she's horribly embarrassed when her men see her caught in the passion of her submissive fantasy.

 

 I thought this would be a simple clip to shoot in terms of the set up and boy was I wrong. Do you know how hard it is to strip someone with a camera strapped to your chest and make sure you have it pointed on the actor? Suuuuuuuupeeeer hard. Once we started filming I realized that I couldn't just focus on removing her catsuit, but I also had to make sure the camera was steady and aimed where I wanted it to. I had to summon all of my lessons from yoga by being very mindful of my body movements so that I moved slowly and not shake the camera. Adding to the challenge was that the catsuit was a lot tighter than I realized, it wasn't something I could simply just pull off.  

These technical issues initially had me concerned because I wasn't sure if the camera would be so shaky it would impact the clip. It was one of the first time I thought about booking a re-shoot, which I now understand the purpose. Thankfully my fears were unfounded as I have watched the clip several times and l love the diverse types of stripping scenarios that Spy vs the Commander has, capturing my love of exposed nerdy and sexy underwear and naked exposure. As always, Skunk's playful and silly energy made this shoot a fun hangout than work. I'm impressed with her ability to write her own cue cards while tied up. We hope you enjoy the clip!