We shot on DV using two Panasonic DVX100 cameras. These record in 25 frame per second progressive scan, which gives a much more “film-like” quality to the images (and coincidentally makes them look much better when used as a source for video clips for the web).

To be honest I didn’t even consider shooting on film. It is a technology with which I am utterly unfamiliar, it is much more expensive, it would have involved hiring in kit rather than buying it and having the kit for future RE shoots. (I had one of the Panasonics already but the second one is the improved model with lots of new little features… like autofocus which works in progressive scan mode!) Plus we couldn’t have edited it or used After Effects on the footage afterwards.

Better all round to go with what I know- and if the final verdict on the film is “wonderful film, shame about the DV quality” I will know to shoot on something different if there’s ever a next time! I guess it is just as likely that the verdict will be “nice try, but no banana” :nana in which case I’d rather solve the other problems first for next time and worry about purely technical quality issues later.

There was enough of a learning curve with having 15 people at the studio rather than 3, having the luxury of someone to hold the boom so we could get better sound, and spending three days shooting what it likely to be 15 minutes of finished film I think! :crazy :crazy

Cheers, Hywel.

Ariel, that certainly was not the answer I expected about the bruises. But still – wouldn’t one bruise remind you of your experience? Or is that a difficult goal and where the master’s touch comes in?

Well, here are some sets where I feel your rusty old-fashioned handcuffs would be an elegant part of the story line:

Use them with the pirate’s costume as a bucaneer whose luck has run out.

Use them as part of an American western theme where the bandit cowgirl has been rounded up. That could mean a lasso around you as well so they can drag you back.

Use them as part of Hywel’s Russian spy series where you are in the cage and your hands are cuffed outside the bars.

Well, Ariel, I must echo what others have written about the forum being much more interesting with you in it.

Hi Ariel

Apologies, just read my last post and thought “surely I didn’t write that..” Must confess I was feeling a bit sorry for myself while nursing a baaad hangover. Sincere thanks for your input but I’m a bit embarrassed that I kinda used you as a kinky agony aunt. Not really what you’re here for, have now run up a huge phone bill but got some issues sorted nicely. I’m sure your time could be put to many better uses as detailed in the previous couple of pages heheh.

Which reminds me, couple more for your little book that came up in conversations last night;

-Never seen any electricity play on the site, personally I dont want to but I said I’d mention it. E-play always strikes me as being a pure torture which , as far as I’m aware, is not what RE is about.

-Bridal Bondage, ok, thats sooo my idea this time. Pretty sure its been done before on this site but not for a while. Maybe even rope in the odd bridesmaid..javascript:emoticon(‘:spin’)
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Thanks Hywel, I was pretty sure you’d work in DV, I mean in this day and age who wouldn’t. Saying that, I’ve seen a few film noire and arthouse kinda sets which made me wonder if just maybe you’d go mad and hire cams / lenses / dollys etc and spend a squillion bucks editing it down. Spent the afternoon before Christmas on an “MTV Dumb Ass” shoot filmed in JUST the same manner as you describe, although perhaps a steadier boom operator… javascript:emoticon(‘:D’)
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Surely this doesn’t mean we’re going to see multi camera directing on regular RE vids does it? Can’t think of a similar site with video on par with RE as it is and starting to wonder if you get too professional then a certain quality might be lost, does that make sense? Probably not.

Thanks both.

The electric cage was my idea, occasioned by seeing the side-effects on using the violet wand around something with a higher capacitance than the average slavegirl’s body.

It didn’t take much engineering- it wasn’t actually the cage that was electrified, it was Ariel. Just taped the electrode of the violet wand to her bum. That meant that static built up in her body until she got too close to the cage, at which point the spark jumps the gap in just the same way as a static zap gets you when you touch a doorknob after walking on cheap hotel carpets!

One of my better ideas, especially when I blindfolded Ariel… :devilishangel :devilishangel :devilishangel

As to where you can get a Jennie-69… only in your dreams and right here at Restrained Elegance I guess! LOL :tongue

I’m shooting with Jenny again later this month if all goes well, so if you’d like to see a sequel to the Jennie-69 storyline just let me know.

Cheers, Hywel.

I have been known to dabble in my spare time – but I’m not a pro like the doc.
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