We just got back from a fantastic location shoot with Ariel, Katy Cee, Natalia Forrest and Temptress Kate. I’ve posted a few samples, behind-the-scenes shot and out-takes on the member’s area, and some samples on the forum here. Check them out… full sets coming as soon as we’ve had chance to back them up and unpack!
Today we are very proud to announce the release of our latest feature film, Bastinado.
Details: http://www.elegancestudios.com/page23/page24/
Trailer (right click, save as): http://www.elegancestudios.com/page23/page24/movies-5/files/page25-movie-0.mp4
As you may have noticed, I have a foot fetish, and as a dominant sadist, the purest expression of that is bastinado, falakka and foot torture. It is one of the things Ariel and I like most in the world 😉
We were nervous but excited when we set out to make a film centred around foot torture and punishment. Because it is really our thing, we wanted to try to do the very best job we could. That’s why it was the first feature we shot with our RED digital cine camera, because we’ve finally got the techie kit that’s capable of bringing the images in our heads to life.
The development of the script was an interesting process. Although it is our fantasy, we wanted to hear from as many other bastinado fans as we could. We got lots of inspiration from the emails and the online chat sessions – many thanks to everyone who pitched in! We hope you like what we’ve done with your ideas and suggestions!
All that remains is to let you watch the film for yourselves. We really hope you enjoy it- please do drop us a line to let us know!
Cheers, Hywel & Ariel
Hi All,
We just got back from a week’s location shoot in Somerset with awesome models Scarlot Rose, Ariel Anderssen, Hannah Claydon, Sophia Smith, Anita deBauch and Temptress Kate. As part of our trip we shot a feature set in the world of “Slave Auction”, provisionally titled Day in the Life.
Post production will take us a considerable number of months- even transcoding the footage so we can edit it will take two solid weeks of CPU- but to give you a taste of what’s to come, here are a few framegrab stills from the film!
Cheers, Hywel.
Hi All
We recently finished the principal photography on our next movie, Bastinado!
I’ve just put together a first teaser trailer: check it out here: (right-click, save as to download it):
http://www.elegancestudios.com/page23/page24/movies-5/files/page25-movie-0.mp4
This was the first outing for our digital cine camera (a RED, as used on Hollywood blockbusters like The Hobbit, Prometheus and Contagion). It was very exciting to discover how easy it was to use- actually easier than the HD video cameras we’ve been using for the last couple of years.
And wow- how good does the footage look? It is awesome even down-converted to full HD for the web- you should see how the original 4K footage looks! I wish everyone had a cinema grade digital projector in their house so we could distribute that way… ah well, maybe in the future we will, and we can re-issue all our films for theatrical presentation 🙂
It was a very intense and sexy shoot, with Ariel having written and scheduled so many bastinado punishments to be inflicted on her in the course of 36 hours that we weren’t sure if she would be able to take it. Hywel somehow bore up under the strain of inflicting them all… and Ariel took her punishment like her character in the movie- with great fortitude despite the intensity!
We still have a few set-up exterior shots to grab. It was lashing with rain and blowing a gale on the morning we were due to shoot them, and the rain hasn’t really let up since. When we get a day with Ariel around we’ll grab those shots, then we’ll be ready to really get stuck in to the editing.
With a long film like this (we shot over 5 hours of footage) the editing will take quite a while to put together, but we’re planning on releasing the film in the summer. Until then, enjoy the trailer! And we’ll get a stills gallery up soon too.
