Well, after Wednesday's events, when nudity-blindness absoultely didn't kick in because the male models were just so gorgeous (and is very hard to remain blase when an extremely well built - in every sense of the word - model is chatting to you about the next shot with his erection nudging against your thigh. Am very proud of self for managing to keep my mind on the job. Or at least, articulating clearly while mind was otherwise engaged.) I was relieved to find that the nudity-blindness came back for yesterday's shoot and I could focus on the job in hand.
(Forgot to mention the highlight of Wednesday's shoot. In one of the group scenes, we needed to hide one of the bloke's cocks. Our model took one look at him and hid it in her mouth. He responded rather eagerly. Though luckily not so eagerly that we had to get her make-up touched up.)
Yesterday, it was all the tricky shoots; sex outdoors, on stairs, in the office; fantasies and roleplay; fun with food and body paint. Lots of awkward shots to co-ordinate. Luckily, the models were totally cool (well, one bloke made a plank of wood look animated but am beginning to think you always get one of them on a shoot. We focussed on his body rather than trying to get any facial expressions out of him, mainly because he only had one facial expression.)
By noon, I'd seen a 'naughty nurse' seduce her patient, two beautiful girls 69 (had to get one girl to hide her hands as had long nails - not a good thing for accurate lesbian representation, I felt. Though I do know some lesbians with talons, is generally a sign of a naff porno film when two perfectly manicured women have fingers flying around the place - dread to think of the occupational hazard entailed.) and seen loads of variations on the oral sex thing. Then, we were onto the location stuff.
Spent about an hour trying to figure out how to get the props for the office scene. Then realised that we were in an office block and it was lunchtime. Am very pleased that the person whose desk we used didn't get back from lunch early as they may have been a tad surprised.
Tried doing some outdoor shots on the river but kept getting disturbed by people and didn't want to break the law, so gave up on that and clambered up to the roof. Am very impressed the models managed to look aroused given their state of undress and the frankly freezing temperature.
The whipped cream fight was fun. When I'm art directing, I always prefer people to respond naturally rather than fake shots, so I got the models into the appropriate outfit (pants, so they could roll around at will without us having to do the 'cock out of shot' thing), got them on the bed, handed the female (such a beautiful woman - and a Stringfellow's stripper no less) the can of squirty cream and said 'Right, now wrestle for control of the cream. Whoever gets the can, gets to cover the other one with cream. I think it was a tie, judging from the amount of cream both of them were covered in by the end of the set. And then we got the shower shots...
And on a similarly sex-related note, Cosmo are looking for sex tips, so if you've got any top turn ons that you reckon other people could benefit by learning about, the below may be of interest:
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Posted by emilyd at January 17, 2003 05:30 PM