Hail Yahel, Your Queen!

The three Seditious women received less than the 39 lashes Casper ordered because the man with the know how Lictor knew better, he wants the punished to survive their ordeals for what comes next. Judith and Magdalena received 30 lashes, maybe a couple more because at times the men with the whip did not wait for the count before lashing, but Yahel was hit more than 40 times, because for each lash the others received, she got two, Lictor stopped flogging her sometime after the 18th lash was counted, his assistant continued a bit more.

After the gruesomely painful lashing, the three chastised women are lowered from their bonds to lay on the dirty ground, but almost immediately Yahel is raised up to her weaken feet to face the people gathered below the bloodied stage.

Casper orders for a crown to be brought in, a crown of thorns, of course. Behold your queen! Casper mocks Yahel, a queen deserves a crown!

The soldier brings the crown and Casper proceeds to place it on Yahel’s head, the crowd below break into an applause.

Judith and Magdalena are forced to get on their knees and Casper orders: Worship your queen!

The governor and his companions walk on the stage of the theater of cruelty, they cannot hide their surprise at the sight before them. One asks: Did you order this? The Governor responds Casper has the authority to do this on his own, I’m here to sentence them.

The Flogging Sequence took one full day. It was the first day of July when it happened. The Crucified Three stayed at the location for the night all expenses paid, which included dinner, a bottle of Singani, to warm up, and breakfast. There was a lot of make up work to do on them for the sequences to come the very next day.

The three protagonists plus the make up woman had a pleasant night and got up early next morning to get ready for the very important sequences: the Crowning, the Sentencing and the beginning of their long Via Crucis to their execution.

The three sequences planned for that Sunday took a very intense day of production work, with a large number of actors witnessing and participating on the events of those two days.

After the intense day of work on that July 2, the work was not done as Jac had hoped, of course. The team returned to the set on the 9th day of July to complete the Via Crucis and begin the Crucifixion of the three, which was not completed that day either, they had to return a while later to finish the film and on July 29th the film was finally in the can, as they say. However, Jac did not call It’s a wrap! that day. He might declared the production done this weekend, after he is done with the assembling of the entire film.

But that long wait from July 9 to July 29 and thereafter, was a tremendously busy time for Jac who is assembling the film. This past week ended with Jac working on the Flogging Sequence and this week has seen The Crowning and the Sentencing Sequences assembled.

Jac had previously put together the Via Crucis Sequence and he was more than half done with it sometime before last week when the master editor returned to the Flogging. It happens like that.

Maybe he was saturated with the images of the Via Crucis so he went back to complete the Flogging, which he didn’t, but he’s almost there, he still has to work out some details; but he moved on to the Crowning, a simpler scene, in his view, with not a lot happening, if you compare it with the intricate flogging sequence, but what happens during the crowning is very dramatic and needed careful work with the shots.

After Yahel is ceremoniously and mercilessly Crowned, the other two women are pushed to their knees and ordered to ‘worship‘ their queen. That’s when the Governor walks on the stage to pass sentence on the women.

The Sentencing Sequence is not a complicated sequence either, but it requieres the same care as the crowning.

Having completed the cutting of the crowning and the sentencing scenes, Jac has returned to the Via Crucis to complete it and he will jump, right after, into the Crucifixion Sequence, which will demand a lot from the overworked editor/director.

If all goes well, the entire Seditiosa movie will be ready for a fine and hopefully final cut by the end of this week. The final cut, color correction and image work, as well as the sound mix, should take an entire week, if not more.

Seditiosa is in the last stretch of the post production and as the work continues, we will be setting up the pre release option for our supporters which will last a very short time.

At this point in the post production, nothing can be added to the story. What is done, is done. The work will be completed with the material that was produced, nothing less, nothing more. The result will be the final film and it will be what it will be.

I will need to address some issues bought up in many comments at some point, maybe. With high expectations come disappointments. It always happens. It happens to me when I’m expecting a movie based on a novel I love, for that movie to reflect, exactly, what my imagination created in my head from the words I read, but unfortunately it never, ever happens. Big disappointment, even if I eventually enjoy the film based on that lovely novel, but that’s a different issue.

After the sentencing, all three protagonists, one at a time, are dragged down from the stage to pick up their heavy logs to begin their march to their cruel execution. That’s a matter for the next update. Meanwhile, we have used up our resources and we need to replenish them.

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