A Two For One Scourge

All three women flogged at the same time. Jac kept that thought until part of his crew and Mila arrived for a meeting to discuss and plan the work for the next sequence. At one point the famed director was describing a bit of how the scourging scene would go, when Eric, the torturer in Maleficarum, arrived. He was included in the conversation.

Jac described the public flogging of the women, his small audience loved the idea of all three captives flogged at the same time. They discussed the dramatic possibilities, the teasing of the torturers and soldiers, the enthusiastic screaming of the people watching, the exchanges between the women, the excitement of it all.

Jac loved the idea more and more. Instead of a seemingly endless series of flogging moments, he was envisioning a very active, moving, dramatic staging of the scourging of the three to be crucified.

The entire sequence flashed before Jac’s eyes. The stripping of the women, being tied to the posts, all while the crowds chant. The exchanges between the women as they suffer the merciless beating, the crowds screaming, laughing, counting the lashes, in jest, some screaming Harder, Harder, some crying, and so on.

They all agreed that the simultaneous flogging was a great idea for all the dramatic possibilities. Jac became convinced that the public scourging can be amazing that way, not risking a prolonged drama where while one woman is under the lash what do you do with the others. Are they sitting somewhere? Are they waiting their turn? … All that seemed dramatically slow.

And that is how it happened. After the killing of the soldier, the three protagonists are arrested and dragged to where they will begin their punishment, their public punishment.

There were two tortures at hand, one of them Eric of Maleficarum fame, in charge of whipping the three women. As Casper, the head of the soldiers, counts, along with the crowd, Lictor (Eric) lashes Magdalena (Mila), while Dark (Anibal) lashes Judith (Dani) and both lash Yahel (Simonne). As the count progresses Yahel receives twice the lashes the others do. by the time the count reaches 18, Yahel had received more than 30. Lictor stops lashing her, he doesn’t want her to die, but Dark continues, for a bit. The lashing stops when the count reaches 30. the 9 or 10 lashes left will be applied later… at the cross.

The shooting of the public flogging took two days of intense production, with the crowd, the effects, everything, including the long time to cover the tattoos of two of the protagonists. Most of the flogging was done on the first day. On the second day the women were flogged some more and the crowning of Yahel came into play. A dramatic, public, crowning where the crowds cry out Crown the queen!

This dramatic scene was followed by the sentencing of the three, one at a time, and the long and winding Via Crucis of the condemned carrying their heavy logs.

After that incredibly intense weekend, the team began to prepare the next sequence, The Crucifixion.

I will continue telling the story of the making of Seditiosa as we work on the post production for a pre release to our supporters at the end of this month.

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There’s a nice new little clip at Patreon, shot during the Flogging Scene. There will be more activity there in the coming days!

And we will be setting up a pre-order page for the film this week!

Our loyal supporters will receive their copies of the film at the end of August. The Pre orders will be fulfilled shortly after.

The film will be officially released a month later… or more. As I mentioned before there’s an International Film Festival interested in premiering this majestic work of cinematic art. That festival is in November and it’s already official, they will be having a retrospective of Jac’s and Amy’s films! A great deal for us.

We’re beginning to set up our page at IMDB!

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