I'm talking about things like plastic tarps that aren't taped down and wind up sticking to the model. Also towels being used on the floor to capture pails of gunge being poured over a model. For some reason, these details detract from the video for me, in fact you could say they ruin an otherwise great scene.
For example, a model has a bath towel on a bed, and pours a bucket of gunge over herself. It is way too much for the towel to capture, not to mention it will soak through anyways, and stain whatever is under the towel.
Worse though (for me anyway) is the inflatable pool with a sheet of clear plastic in it and draped over the sides. The girl plays with syrup or something equally sticky, and before you know it, the plastic has been pulled into the pool, mostly stuck to the model.
My brain says 'Duh - you could have used tape around the edges' or 'why a towel when you have a whole bucket that will wind up everywhere?' Most of my attention is on watching to see when the problems will start. I find myself so distracted by this, that I can't enjoy the mess on the girl.
Anyone else share this frustration?
or . . . . are you a producer or model who has experienced this problem?
Its so frustrating as an amateur producer and probably more so now during these difficult times aswell but these things do happen.
Mostly because we are producing in our own home we can't afford to trash it as we have to live here aswell. Lots of threads make us feel like we are doing a good job in that there is so much more wam and affordable wam that mishaps will happen. Like for instance a neighbour knocking on the door right in the middle of our mess
I would say that we price our content in a fair way. We were never here to make money just make more mess. I guess if your spending mega bucks on a scene they would hire out a place that was OK to trash and had a bouncer on the door
Tbh, we both love trashing clothes n the room we're in...I've some vids where the girl is trashed but you have to listen to plastic sheeting crinkling the whole time...i like seeing the room get trashed along with the girl..its kinda freeing to just not care what happens.
The only time anything like that has ever bothered me is when the person who fucked up is ME and I'm getting slime or cream on my own unprotected stuff or fucking up a shot in one of my own videos. When I see it in someone else's video, it doesn't bother me at all, though -- unless it somehow obscures the shot when I was really engrossed and enjoying the image.
As a producer (sort of lol!) I get what you are saying. I rarely do messy stuff, wet clothes is a serious fetish of mine and those connections were made when I was very, very young, so not knocking it, just into wetlook.
I am leading with that because just my wetlook videos take a minimum of 8 hours each. There is the prep, the dressing, the shooting, the tear down, the laundry, the downloading, the editing, the uploading and the time it takes to get them ready on the UMD. When I do the messy, and I adore shaving cream, it takes even longer. I get that it ruins the vibe when you see things like towels and camera stands but IMHO, 8 hours is enough, especially when I may not sell a single video. Very few of us actually make a living at this and those that do have to mass produce, stay fresh, spend LOTS of money and I can't even imagine the work they put into this.
I like the odd thing here and there and prefer the amateur, spur of the moment vibe from others here. It's not easy to overproduce and some here are truly remarkable at it like GensGerman... his stuff is amazing! But the fun, natural stuff of Sinq, Ariel, Jayce, WetNylons, Marjorie and so many others just look like fun and that is sooooooo much more important to me.
I'm afraid I may not have been clear enough in my original description. I have no problem with protective materials in a scene, such as if someone wants to cover an inflatable pool with a huge sheet of clear plastic. Protecting our homes or wherever we shoot is important. My point was when the preparation is poorly done, and while watching the video, you just focus on WHEN the rug gets soaked in oil, or the plastic falls into the pool of sticky stuff. (or the little towel overflows mess onto the floor, bed, sofa, etc.)
Here's a fictitious example: A girl is laying on a plastic sheet on her living room floor. It is about five feet square. She begins pouring bucket-loads of slime, or jugs of syrup or oil or whatever over herself. All good so far, other than the puddle gathering on the plastic sheet is very near the edges, and it looks like nice carpeting is under it. Sure enough, the oil, or gunge, or whatever it may be, leaks off of the tarp and is now soaking into the expensive living room carpet. The camera shakes for a moment, then a quick edit appears, followed by mystery towels around the plastic, obviously put there by someone in panic mode - often the camera guy - and then the video continues, but the girl keeps looking at the mess on the floor. All of that could have been avoided with a larger tarp. All the focus on 'oh shit - the carpet' ruins the video for me.
Another example, but one I've seen more than once. A girl is in a wading pool and large buckets of mess are seen. The pool is covered by a too-small plastic tarp, which the girl is sitting on, The edges of this tarp barely cover the edge of the pool. She lifts a bucket and pours it over herself. All good and the start of what should be a sexy scene UNTIL the plastic gets pulled down into the bottom of the pool. She tries unsuccessfully to lift it back up, but it keeps slipping back into the pool. Before long, half of the plastic is gone from view, and the pool itself is all messy. This wouldn't be a problem, but some guy off-camera keeps yelling at her to put the plastic back in place, which is now slimed up on both sides and won't stay in place. The rest of the video focuses on the girl trying, again and again, to put the plastic back in place to protect the pool. But really, it's a plastic pool, just drag it outside and hose it off.
So, I guess it's the poor preparation that winds up spoiling the scene that bothers me. Good preparation is no issue. Naturally, we have to protect the areas where we shoot unless we have a studio like MostWam that can be completely hosed out.