Director's Notes: S3E6

S3E6 "Knock Knock..."

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Casting:

Sindee

Fiona Dempsey

Zepp Sicling

Carly Morrisey (Jane Sicling)

Written and Directed by Carly Morrisey 


Day One: Storyline
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Before day one I toyed with the idea of Sindee and Professor Zepp's story-line. But what made it come to life was when their story crossed paths with the last episode. So what we have is Zepp's wife (played by me) receiving a warm dish of revenge from the Punk Grrls Gone Wild exploitation video. The dish of revenge is served by our latest new-comer to the cast Fiona Dempsey.

Day Two: Looks/Wardrobe
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So after going through a few ideas on the story we can work on the cast's looks. Zepp and my character have it easy... we are that comfy couple at home. The real contrast is with Sindee and Fiona's looks. Punk yes... but with a little naughty too.

Day Three: Set and Animations
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Now the cast are ready its time to work on a convincing set. From the story I picked Sindee's future home from Episodes S2E7 and S2E8. Zepp helped me work on an amazing photo prop (our wedding portrait) that hangs over the fireplace of the house. I find myself tripping over pose-balls constantly!

Day Four: The Shoot
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Last night we all set the time for the cast to shoot. Talk about international collaboration. We have two Californians, one New Yorker and an European.

The shoot goes off without any hitches! Again, Sindee, Zepp and now Fiona are such professionals on set. It was filled with lots of laughs as we worked on each scenes in detail that I know will come out in the final video.

Day Five: Final Edit
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The shoot had gone so well that there was so much video to edit down into a juicy bundle. My friend Barbie Pomilio had earlier sent me a link to a scene that reminded me of what I'm trying to do. So the music I added was a Clockwork'y theme.

That's it folks!
xCJM

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Director's Notes: S3E5

S3E5 "Selling Out"

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Casting:

Katina Cazalet

Fiona Dempsey

Monique LeFry

Carly Morrisey (Jane Sicling)

Written and Directed by Carly Morrisey 

Episode Development: 

***Please note that the following contains spoilers*** 

So... I've decided to do the Director's Notes blogs in a little bit of a different way. Rather than post when I've finished the episode I'm going to share with you what is going on just as we film.

Days One and Two: Casting and Script
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So for this episode I am showing that the university was full of different cliques. We have the sorority girls, we have the debate team but now we show you the punk rockers. I picked a band rehearsal scene with three punk rockers. After they finish their song they talk about their opportunity with the sinister Jane Sicling (a/k/a me playing the character of Zepp Sicling's wife for the next show). We learn that Jane is a talent scout that has propositioned the girls to make a sex video that she will film to cause a 'splash'. They agree hoping that this will give them instant fame. After they are filmed, Jane leaves and but the girls feel duped by her because they get nothing in return.

Right now we have the featured cast confirmed. Its been several weeks in the making with other shoots scheduled but now this is taking shape.

Day Three: Dressing the Set
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When I log into SL home, I'm literally living on a set. Right now my home is a dank basement with a drum set in the middle and lots of speakers. In a way having the set as my home gives me the chance to stay in role and make little changes to the set before we actually shoot.

Day Four: Shoot Day
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So I hear from Monique and Katina but one of our cast members still isn't available. It just so happens that I had someone in mind that could be perfect for the role. She's a new-comer and hadn't modeled in a video. So in the space of thirty minutes Fiona Dempsey learns her shoot script and finds a perfect look. Talk about making a debut in SL Porn!

The shoot goes off perfectly. Even with clumsy threesome poses we manage to get some amazing angles. With all this going on and one the last scene my computer decides to go on strike and I end up crashing!!! But the good news I was able to catch almost everything.

Day Five: Editing
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So its time to edit all of what was shot and I really have no idea how to make clips of the gals look like they are actually performing a song. But when I added the music it started to come together (of course!)

To make the girls seem more like a band I used a multi screen effect that showed their best assets (Monique's butt will thank me). The other piece of music that I picked was a very 90s grungy background that totally worked better than I expected. It made the edits of Jane's character exploiting the band far more seedy and gritty.

Hopefully everybody will enjoy it but for me I'm proud of this one because it ain't easy filming threesomes and making them look raw.

xCJM

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Director's Notes: S3E4

 

Casting:

Heather Ashford (Katysa Ashford)

Jack Guru

Jake Raven

Support Cast

Carly Morrisey


Directed by Carly Morrisey 

Set design by Danielle Stead

Episode Development: 

***Please note that the following contains spoilers*** 

Episode 3 of Season 4 was very fun to do and surprisingly easy. We take Katysa from Episode One in her college days (a/k/a Heather Ashford ten years earlier) and Jake is there to bask in his glory of winning the debate from the last episode.

The music was a challenging thing. I edited it entirely with a little bird on my shoulder asking me, "What are we going to do to break up the scene?" I wish I could use whats on the radio but there is plenty of perfect music in the public domain that fits any scene. For this I wanted to show that in spite of all of the treachery, Jake and Katsya are still college sweethearts. But... the quick shot of the lipstick on Jake's abs says it all.

So as Heather's character clings to Jake and they talk to each other... we see that things aren't so perfect in their world. Oh please this series is Revenge!

There is a little play on the word 'late' because Heather comes from a family where if she is officially late then she will have to be sure that her future husband is candidate material.

The dialog is full of undertones of jealousy and race as Jake doesn't like Jack which makes Heather's little trip to the wrong side of town all the more exciting. Again the music changes because, as she steps out of her sports car, she is another woman. She's dressed differently. Her makeup is how Jake or her family wouldn't approve of. But Jack greets her in just a shirt and nothing else. Jake's character is trying to impress her and yet Jack simply is nonchalant about the whole affair.

Heather and Jack have more than a tryst..  we see that they are lovers. As a checker board girl.. I kinda like to have my interracial erotic moments to be more than blonde meets bull. So this episode establishes a relationship that will spill messy in the the rest of the Revengeverse. The sex scene between Heather and Jack was very fluid. Again its so wonderful to work with stars that know exactly what to do at the right moment. Instead of moving to every shot we let the dialog between the characters set the mood.

I hope you all enjoy.

xCJM

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