Hello everybody!

My apologies for my English again.

First. I like this video but I think you can improve it.

The idea is magnificent. You have also a great location and 5 fabulous models . And the photographer is a life insurance.

What´ s next?

Edit the video.

And there´s when I find a little defect. In my modest opinion too many cuts ( or changes). Usually 2 or 3 seconds with a model and cut. This supposes a lot of work editing and brings me to the forum of the sets with different models.

With this kind of music you could expend more time in the model. For example: When one model says “Let me be your fantasy” there´s time to show face, all her body and restraints. A take from head to toe.

You could edit this video with 10 “long takes” and little shoots in the middle.

What do you think about it? Too classical ?

I like the scene in the table with Ariel and Paige turning her legs. If I were the director I would continue this scene 2 seconds more doing to raise their legs. This is the prelude of a next video in a gym?

And finally , the music. Alison Goldfrapp is a member of RE ? 😀 😀 Who sings the song?

Best wishes

Hi all,

Sorry for not replying earlier, but I’ve been away and only just got back….

I’m glad you liked the video! Thank you for all your comments. When this concept was first discussed with Hywel, I really wasn’t sure if it would be well received. We wanted to try something different and fun, so the Castle shoot was one of those extremely rare opportunities to have 5 models so we decided to give it a go.

The first task was to select a suitable music track and after trolling through literary hundreds of songs, we decided upon “Let me be your fantasy” as that seemed most appropriate with an upbeat tempo.

The second task was to map out every bit of footage to shoot for each bar of the song, including model, bondage, clothing and location. There are 104 bars in this track so that actually took more time to work out then shooting the content!

The third task was to ask the ladies nicely if they were willing to sing along to the track, which fortunately turned out to be a resounded yes! I remember Ariel being particularly enthusiastic about the prospect. 🙂

The shooting had to be done in several stages in-between the normal still shoots that continued with Hywel and Kate. It made for a busy few days, but well worth it 🙂

I’ve never edited anything like this before, as it’s a very differently style to that of the normal videos seen here. Music videos are inherently fast paced, due to very tight editing with a constant change of footage, so we decided to take this approach, as it seemed to fit well with the pace of the track. The video could have been edited in any number of ways, including the suggestion Manolo made about showing just one model singing the whole line “Let me be your fantasy”. It was actually shot like that, as we had the song track playing in the background while filming, so the models knew the timing of what to sing. I made the decision to edit the video by cutting to the different models at a fast pace to keep it in line with the music video style as that just seemed to fit best in the end.

Big thanks to all involved! It was a lot of fun to shoot. 🙂 Your absolutely right, Jeff. The ladies definitely put on a great show of seduction and playfulness! 🙂

Cheers,
Steve

P.S, welcome too the forum Ozzie!