Maude is wearing her pristine pink gym gear, but wants to play in the mud. So she slips on a long black PVC Mackintosh that she found in the Hall. Unfortunately for her, the coat is actually Rosemary's and Maude is not supposed to be wearing it, far less siding into the mud in it. So when Rosemary catches her, she makes Maude take the coat off and then go into the mud unprotected. Her beautiful pink clothes don't stay clean for long after that!
Rosemary herself wears a beautiful green satin ballgown, and needless to say that gets the full treatment too. No-one stays clean for long around here!
Amongst other things Maude gets her face pushed into the mud by Maude, who gets her own back by completely destroying Rosemary's green dress with mud, later on Maude does a spectacular hand-stand head-roll down the gully side into the sloppiest mud at the bottom. Maude also does some of her trademark faceplants into the mud. Once her pink outfit is completey covered she's made to remove her jacket so the pink t-shirt she's wearing under it also gets totally covered, the jacket is then covered and filled with mud and she's made to put it back on.
Unusually for us, this scene genuinely does involve outfit destruction as Rosemary's dress began to come apart, the sleeves tearing off, as we were filming.
There is a small photoset, 216 high-resolution images, shot at the same time as the video, included in the download via the Bonus Content link.
Cinqgirlracer Sougoula said: Fantastic muddy pics, get me in it head first !!
kinkydenn said: Did the mac survive? Anything left of the dress?
The mac survived just fine and will no doubt be used again in future scenes. The dress went straight in the bin when we got back, as while it might have been theoretically possible to wash it out and get a seamstress to re-attach the sleeves, in reality I know I never get round to things like that, simpler to bin it and we'll find another in a charity shop at some point.
Glad people are liking this one! Both girls had an awesome amount of fun shooting it.
Not released with this scene I'm afraid, and TBH I'm not sure if we filmed one at all.
Bear in mind if we do shoot a hosedown after a mud scene, it's done in the clothes the girls travelled back to the Hall in, not what they were wearing in the mud. When we come off the mud they take their outer clothes off and drop them in a plastic tub for later washing (or in the case of Rosemary's dress here, binning), and change into boilersuits or sportswear for the journey back. We don't always do a hosedown video, and when we do the girls get paid half the standard wetlook rate, on top of their mud scene rate, and those scenes usually get released as bonus extras in 5-week months.
Last summer we actually tried a new approach entirely on some scenes, instead of travelling back and forth constantly we booked a room at a cool little hotel near Marsh House (the house itself was shut up for the season as the Full-Wellingtons and their staff were out of the country, so we couldn't use the facilities there), and instead of washing their heads off and changing into tracksuits, the girls just removed their outer clothes and changed straight into waterproofs - hoods up to cover muddy hair, jackets tucked into trousers and trousers tucked into wellies - and went straight back to the hotel and into the room's shower while I waited in the van for them to wash off, change into their next outfits, and come back out, bringing their waterproofs with them for re-use. Meant we could film three scenes a day instead of the limit of two that's been the maximum until now, though Lucia and Honeysuckle eventually decided to go back into the mud wearing the waterproofs, which wasn't in the original plan! But it did also mean no hosedown videos at all for those scenes.
I honestly can't remember if there was a hosedown scene after this one, as while we have just released a Rosemary and Maude one on both sites, that followed on from a different mud shoot, not yet released. So this one may not have a companion hosedown at all. On the plus side though, the actual mud video is a full half hour long.
I only ask becuse the pink sports wear outfit looks a reat and would be interested to know if there are any shots of just that where the camera soaks it in.
matty87 said: I only ask becuse the pink sports wear outfit looks a reat and would be interested to know if there are any shots of just that where the camera soaks it in.
The pink outfit did wash out fine in the washing machine, so it's possible Maude could wear it in a wetlook scene at some point, though at the moment this summer is planned to be mainly mud, and no formal shoot planning has been done yet.