Can I use this topic to add an idea of mine?

Have you used the inside of a van as a set – as if the girl is being transported somewhere?

The van could be occupied by one or more girls. Ties/cuffing could range from just the girl on the floor to use of whatever internal fittings the van came with (or could be made to look like it had come with.

You might have a “transport” cage within the van – or even someone appearing to break out of a box (did she then escape or just find the cruel guard sitting watching her?).

Stories could range from kidnapping to (dare I mention it?) Honest Omar’s Transport Department.

I have no idea how difficult it would be technically. You’d have to beg, hire or borrow a van but with luck you might get a few sets out of it while you had it. The van need not move. I am sure many of your models could simulate movement better than the original bridge crew of the USS Enterprise – and could do great impressions of rough roads in still sets.

Andrew

Hooray hooray, hello again CD, lovely to hear from you! (for those of you who’ve joined in more recent times, I think Cavalier Driver is one of the RE Members who’s been around longest – he certainly pre-dates my involvement with the site. So forgive my great excitement in seeing him suddenly re-appear).

Golly, I think one of the problems with the longer series is that up till now, all the ones with slightly harder BDSM action have kind of had to be me because it was me who came up with a lot of the stuff that was going to happen, and a) I’d have felt hideously guilty asking another model to do it and b) I think that the things I wanted to try playing out were beyond the limits of what the other models on the site like doing.

I guess that Hywel’s probably talked before on the forum about the ongoing challenge of finding the right models for the site. In the UK, there are loads of models, and a reasonable pool of really pretty girls who are genuine professionals. Which is great.

However, although more models are trying bondage shoots than, say, 10 years ago, there are still plenty of glamour models who won’t. Which, of course is fine. Plenty of other glamour models are happy to be tied up for shoots, but many of them will have limits regarding 1) Nudity (they won’t do it) 2) Gags (they won’t wear them) or 3)Both of those things 🙂 Fortunately, there are plenty of lovely models without those limits, and its mostly those girls who appear on Restrained Elegance. Thank heavens.

Of course, a natural thing for us to do (which we look into from time to time) is to find real-life glamour models who are also into bondage. That way, they’ll be likely to be keen to wear ballgags, nipple clamps etc and might well be perfect for a longer series in which they explore the limits of their BDSM interests. But most of the models (in the UK at least) who are lifestyle BDSM players are also very ‘alternative’ looking; heavily tattooed, with multiple body piercings, hair dyed in unusual colours, or not really conventionally ‘model-shaped’.

That’s not to say they aren’t excellent models, but (at least previously) they haven’t been the type of model that RE Members have responded to particularly favourably. In all honesty, I’d probably say that they’re not so much to my personal taste either, I like it best when girls look fairly ‘vanilla’ for bondage pictures because then the contrast between how they look and what’s happening to them on screen feels a bit more dramatic.

So actually, I can only think of one RE model off the top of my head who might be interested in a series like ‘Bondage Driving Test’ or my Foot Torture series. But I guess we’d better ask her before I start trumpeting about it 🙂

Mind you, I guess that a longer series wouldn’t have to be about harder BDSM action. It’s just that it’s so much easier, given that we don’t shoot particularly explicit stuff, if we can show some kind of progression beyond the model being tied up in lots of different ways….

Anyway, sorry, I think I went a bit off topic. Lovely to see you back, I’m really glad things sound cheery (and busy!) in your life.

xxx

Another thought: what about sets in a garage or storage room?

I’m thinking of somewhere with piles of boxes or some industrial-type shelving that someone could be tied to/on/around. I recall being impressed long ago (long before I found RE) by some pictures that make great use of the combination of the curves and softness of the model and the angularity and hardness of steel shelving.

Stories could run from the girl surprised by the burglar in her garage to the secretary sent down to the company stores for something and trapped by the lonely man there (or big boss and ambitious junior who go there when “working” late). I also recall some story somewhere about the girl who goes to the fetish shop, asks if they have something special and is invited into the back … !

When I said “garage”, I wasn’t thinking of a place with a car in it 🙂 . I’m thinking of garages like most around where I live where there’s no room for the car for all the boxes, off-cuts of timber, ladders etc. Come to think of it, it would be lovely to see you have a go at “girl tied to roof of car” like Jessica Alba in “Idle Hands” but modern cars seem so easily dented and I don’t want to be responsible for any expensive (and hard to explain) repairs. 😆

Andrew