The Crucified Three

The night of the 9th of July, after the most tension filled and overwhelming day of production, Jac sat on his favorite sofa in front of the large monitor with either a Belgium or a Dutch bottle of beer in hand and his cats keeping him company, all five of them in different couches, while the computer transferred the files from the camera card to the hard disk. He was not ready to look at the material, thus he decided to watch one of his favorite shows instead.

The next morning, after his matinal duties, he began to look at the footage he shot the day before, there were some great shots, but he knew he didn’t have all he wanted or needed to complete the film and the need to go back to the location was obvious.

He didn’t need to go over the clips to come to that conclusion. He knew he was not done the moment he called it a day that eventful Sunday.

Nevertheless, it was not an easy decision to make. The days after that Sunday were complicated and he was deeply aware that it was going to get even thornier.

The week of July 10th began with the assembling of the new footage and as he watched the material his thought process had already decided what he wanted to do and that he needed one more day of production. He began contacting his main cast and crew to figure out a date. All of them had some things going for that coming weekend, so there was an initial agreement for a week later, preferably a Sunday because Simonne had work on Saturdays.

When the chosen week began, Dani announced that she was sick, apparently spending a very long time on the cross, naked, whipped by the freezing wind, had some effect on her health and she didn’t want to risk getting sicker that weekend. A new date was agreed upon, July 29th, and there were going to be only 6 actors: the Crucified Three, Casper and the two torturers. The idea was to concentrate on the crucified women, to do all the nasty things to them necessary to complete the Crucifixion Sequence.

But the waiting time between shooting days was not wasted. From the moment the production of Seditiosa started, Jac began assembling the footage, selecting shots to build the scenes, and in most cases, editing them together. He was advancing on the post production at the same time he was extremely busy getting ready to wrap the production.

The chosen date for the last day of production was at hand. The small cast and the crew arrived to the location and began to work. The make up work on Dani and Mila to cover their tattoos takes a long time, a couple of hours, so the first to go to the Make-Up room was Simonne. The plan was to begin shooting her close shots on the cross, while Dani or Mila got ready.

Simonne was put through a number of situations for over an hour, including the nailing of her feet. The next to arrive was Mila, who then suffered at the hands of her torturers. She was raised up to her cross, her feet were nailed, and she was left to suffer some time on her cross, like Simonne before her.
Finally, Dani arrived to go over her suffering moments like Mila and Simonne did.

All the actions in the film tell part of the story, the nailing of the feet does not happen right away and there’s a reason for it, a dramatic reason. It begins a new process in the execution of the three women, one that turns into a climatic orgy of pain.

After all three had their different close shots, the moment came to do all the general shots that couldn’t be done before.

The Crucified Three were subjected to another day of extreme suffering on the cross, under the harsh conditions of the weather and it wasn’t until the sun began to go behind the hills that Jac decided the suffering women had enough. He could tell because of their pleading eyes, their trembling, bloodied and naked bodies, and the muffled cries, almost whispers, coming out of them as they suffered the anguish of their time on the cross: Are we done? The Crucified Three cried out after more torture and humiliations finally took them to end of their suffering.

When Jac said It’s done! there was a sigh of relief heard miles away. The Crucified Three were taken down from their crosses, the production assistants rushed to them with blankets to cover them from the cold wind, there was some laughter, some comments and more laughter. Dani commented If this came out good, it was worth it.

The suffering cast got on their way to wash and get dressed while the crew was busy gathering al the equipment to take it all back, including the crossbeams that were going to be taken down AFTER Jac got some shots of the empty crosses from the cliff above.

As Jac stood up on the hill overlooking the location, recording the empty crosses for posterity and for an early scene, he wondered if he had all he needed. Maybe if he had another 10 or 20 thousand to work with… or even better, another 50G … But he had what he had and he did what most producers would not manage to do even if they had those 50G extra, all that was left now was to make all that material work as a movie; however, time was rushing past, he only had a month ahead of him to complete the post production to make a good number of people happy… he made a promise, after all, even if it wasn’t really a promise.

When we launched the fundraising campaign in October we were told that the funds would be released a few days after it concluded 60 days later… that was the beginning of December, so he calculated around 8 months to produce the film, from writing the script to post production. The magic month was August. However, IndieGoGo did not release the funds until January. Oh well.

We are still running the Pre Sale campaign for those willing to support our work and would be interested in watching the film long before its official release and many wonder when are we going to finally release it.

Our backers and supporters will see the film as soon as the first cut is done, anytime soon. It is my understanding that by Sunday the 17th the final editing for the first cut will be done. During the rest of the week Jac will go over the entire film, fix what needs to be fixed, and once he’s satisfied he’ll process a clip of that raw, in a beautiful way, first cut of Seditiosa which will be shown to our backers and supporters.

After that clip is done, Jac will embark on the final cut, sound mix, subtitling, color corrections and after all that work the film will be done and ready for mastering.

After mastering we’ll prepare the assets to upload the film to our store and to the platforms where we sell and stream our films.

During all this time we are preparing the key art for the film, the information for the stores, the trailer and so on.

Our schedule looks like this.

• Before the end of this month we will be uploading the film for first viewing for the privileged ones.

• In October we’ll be releasing the film to those who contributed to the IndieGoGo campaign and after they all get their copy, we’ll be releasing it to our pre buyers.

• At the end of November we will have the Official Premiere of the film at an International Film Festival and we’re considering a limited theatrical release, after that, at the beginning of December, the film will be up in our stores, platforms and so on.

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