Candy likes to play hard, but she’s nearing the limit of what she can take of me hitting her feet. It’s some really intense play- Lauren and I decided to actually tone it down a little in the edit. I think we would have toned it down more if Candy hadn’t been able to so clearly talk afterwards about how and why her experience was really good.
The whole second half of this scene, while she’s suspended and I’m working on her feet, one of the cameras wasn’t recording. I need to credit Red (who did the editing back when) and Joe (the other camera op) for really impressively saving it. Here's what I wrote about this a few years ago:
It felt horrible… I’d just done this incredibly hot and fun scene, great exit interview, feeling utterly pumped, and the fateful words were uttered: “uh-oh. um, guys…” Turned out B camera hadn’t been running the whole second half of the shoot. I don’t think I moved from my spot on the floor for twenty minutes after that. I’d just put tons of energy into this thing, and I was convinced it was going to be useless and the whole update would be horrible and noone would like it and I’d have to go live in a cardboard box and fight rats for food and people walking by would laugh, and possibly spit on me for making a boring shoot with nothing at all worth watching.
Then I watched the A & B cam footage from the first part of the shoot while we captured it pre-editing, and thought “Well that part looked great, maybe we can update with just the first half and it’ll be short but extra-good.” Then I watched the A cam footage capturing from the second half and thought “That’s some great footage, Joe did a great job. Maybe it’ll be alright after all, especially following up the first half.”
A few days later, watching Red’s rough cut, I thought “Boy, we make some hot smut, this captures the feel of the scene perfectly. We might need to tone down that one bit a little. Wasn’t this the one we were missing a camera for?” ^-^
