Angels
We were talking to Jasmine about 7 weeks ago and discussed her being in a film with us. The first concept that came to mind for me was since she owns the SL Porn Tube site was sex in a movie theater. The details of why we would be there and why we were having sex we would work out later I just wanted to find a high quality theater in a sim we could film in for a couple of hours.
The places we looked just weren’t suitable and the only real good theater we found was being shown as a demo, and we didn’t think the business would really care for us using it. After all they are they were trying to make money, I’m sure they would of much rather us pay the L$5,000 and buy a theater from them then have us use their demo.
Linda and I had talked about doing some sort of heaven / angel movie and with Jasmine we wanted a set and concept that we had never used before. So we found everything we needed for Angels for less than L$100 (not counting the bed we already had), we set it up and waited for Jasmine to be on the same time we were.
A couple of weeks later and we scheduled the shoot. The first try had to be postponed a week so the actual shoot took place about 4 weeks after we first talked about a film. The shoot was a breeze, Jasmine was fantastic and every bit the professional as we had expected. While I filmed, her and Linda had a nice chat, we ended the shoot about 1am SLT.
Next we needed a death scene, nothing to dramatic just a little explanation of why we were dead. We thought a car wreck would be easiest and scouted a few sims for places we could have a wrecked car. As fate would have it we were on Scooby’s set as he filmed his movie: Brothers Until The End. Without telling him we were looking for a city sim to shoot, he begins telling us about a city on a sky platform below us. We went down and checked it out, the great part was that we could Rezz the car we need and could drive it around.
We filmed the car wreck after I had done my first edit of the film, and yes Linda really did suck at driving the car. The part that we are in the car I had the sky set for midnight, when I went to edit I realized that was just too dark. So we deleted that footage and went back the next day and reshot the in car clips. In actual time the car wreck took us longer to film then the rest of the movie.
Looking for music I came across Robbie Williams “Angels”. It was the perfect song only problem was Robbie sings it too powerfully. This was heaven I wanted something soft and relaxing, so I looked for an acapella version of the song. I came across an acoustic guitar version that the guy sang beautifully, the draw back in that was his guitar drowned out his soft vocals. Finally I came across the version that we used in the movie, her soft sultry voice and the way she sang was so perfect I want to use as much of the song in the film as I could. I was so moved by the song and how she sang it I change the name of the movie from; Em & Lil go to Heaven, to Angels, 2 days before the movie was released.
We would like to make a series of the Heaven movies, just need some simple and plausible ways to kill off a few porn stars!!
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Directors Commentary
Office Punishment, Sexual Harassment
This movie was shot over the course of 3 days starting on a Saturday after the night before going to see the movie John Carter in 3d. So as I filmed I tried to use some of the tricks I seen in the movie to emphasize 3d, which in this case is depth of field. You need something in the foreground and something in the background to really utilize DOF.
We lazily shot the movie because it was just the two of us chatting, having fun and filming, which explains why we took 3 days to shoot. The funny part was after the first day my avi was naked and Linda’s was in lingerie, and instead of saving our outfits or trying you remember the exact look, we just kept our avis the same for all 3 days.
When it came time to edit the movie I had over 40 minutes of raw footage in 120 film clips. I like our one scene movies to be between 5 and 8 minutes, simple because I think holding a person’s attention in an adult film is very difficult. With 40 minutes of footage I realize there was no way I could get down to 8 minutes. So my goal turned to between 12 to 15 minutes, just to get it to 15 minute I was going to need to cut nearly 2/3 of the footage out.
While I was cutting the movie I was also thinking of the musical sound track I wanted to use and looking for the perfect yet up to date music. I found what I thought was the perfect music and even dropped it in the film while I edited. Once I had the footage with the titles and end credits put together into 14 minutes it was time to record sound effects.
I really hate subtitles in movie and have not used them yet in any of our 36 productions. I watch a movie to watch not read and think that a director should film and edit a movie in away to convey why the action that is taking place, is taking place without subtitles. Also more directors should take advantage of the description part when they upload a video to a site so that subtitles aren’t need.
I have seen many Second Life adult movies that were more of a music video then a porno. Sometimes I think I would just be better off going to youtube to watch the real video then to watch SL avis gyrate to loud in your face type music.
Up until this movie I didn’t think I could do a movie with no music at all, but when I started to edit our special effect sounds I realize I had no room to put the music without just blending it in the sound effects. With the sound effect already somewhat difficult to make out, I didn’t want the music blurring or drowning them out.
As I saved the final movie my concern was how the movie had no music, I really saw that as a detriment to the movie. After uploading the movie on the machinima sites I looked at the movie again. This time I realized the beauty of the movie was the special effects sounds and that the movie was far better without the music then if I had cut the opening dialog in order to force the music in. For that reason I feel this is one of the best movies we have made.
Oh and watch all the way to the end, I think what is said is the funniest part.
This movie was shot over the course of 3 days starting on a Saturday after the night before going to see the movie John Carter in 3d. So as I filmed I tried to use some of the tricks I seen in the movie to emphasize 3d, which in this case is depth of field. You need something in the foreground and something in the background to really utilize DOF.
We lazily shot the movie because it was just the two of us chatting, having fun and filming, which explains why we took 3 days to shoot. The funny part was after the first day my avi was naked and Linda’s was in lingerie, and instead of saving our outfits or trying you remember the exact look, we just kept our avis the same for all 3 days.
When it came time to edit the movie I had over 40 minutes of raw footage in 120 film clips. I like our one scene movies to be between 5 and 8 minutes, simple because I think holding a person’s attention in an adult film is very difficult. With 40 minutes of footage I realize there was no way I could get down to 8 minutes. So my goal turned to between 12 to 15 minutes, just to get it to 15 minute I was going to need to cut nearly 2/3 of the footage out.
While I was cutting the movie I was also thinking of the musical sound track I wanted to use and looking for the perfect yet up to date music. I found what I thought was the perfect music and even dropped it in the film while I edited. Once I had the footage with the titles and end credits put together into 14 minutes it was time to record sound effects.
I really hate subtitles in movie and have not used them yet in any of our 36 productions. I watch a movie to watch not read and think that a director should film and edit a movie in away to convey why the action that is taking place, is taking place without subtitles. Also more directors should take advantage of the description part when they upload a video to a site so that subtitles aren’t need.
I have seen many Second Life adult movies that were more of a music video then a porno. Sometimes I think I would just be better off going to youtube to watch the real video then to watch SL avis gyrate to loud in your face type music.
Up until this movie I didn’t think I could do a movie with no music at all, but when I started to edit our special effect sounds I realize I had no room to put the music without just blending it in the sound effects. With the sound effect already somewhat difficult to make out, I didn’t want the music blurring or drowning them out.
As I saved the final movie my concern was how the movie had no music, I really saw that as a detriment to the movie. After uploading the movie on the machinima sites I looked at the movie again. This time I realized the beauty of the movie was the special effects sounds and that the movie was far better without the music then if I had cut the opening dialog in order to force the music in. For that reason I feel this is one of the best movies we have made.
Oh and watch all the way to the end, I think what is said is the funniest part.
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