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When I began typing this post, everyone was holding her or his breath waiting to hear the results of the elections in Bolivia. It is important for us because we would have an idea of how the situation in the country was going to be. Most importantly the economy.
The elections came and went without a clear outcome but with a huge surprise. One candidate who was far down on the polls won the 31% while the two most prominent candidates did not get what was expected. One of them got 27% while the one that was supposed to get at least 25% if not more, got 20%.
There will be a runoff with the two front runners. What does it all mean for us? Another two months of uncertainty. The guy that got the 31% is the son of an ex president who is Jac’s friend. That should mean something but it doesn’t. If the runoff had been between the two front runners in the polls, things would be clear and predictable, now, they are not.
Cruxlover24 When will we have more news about this new film?
The day after the elections Dani and Jac got together again to continue torturing the warrior to be. The plan was to do more angles of the nailing to the patibulum and to begin the first few shots for the next sequence.
The session began with Jac applying the marks from previous scenes on Dani’s body. To accomplish this task he had to flog the resilient actress a lot. Once he was done, Dani went down to her position, her naked body full of whip marks laying on the cold tiles to suffer, once again, the pains of crucifixion.
Jac proceeded to set up the camera for the long shots of the entire scene. He was going to use the crane, to move the camera around at relative ease. First lowering it to body level, to begin the nailing to the wood sequence, then raising it for some top views of the action.
When looking at the monitor when the camera was almost at floor level, Jac thought that Dani looked just amazing.
Spiros Love to see more of the nailing of Dani’s wrists, with her hands and fingers twisted in agony.
The close up shots of Dani’s hands getting the nails through the wrists, the fingers twisting in agony, were already done during the previous session. I’m pretty sure they look great, I’ll ask for pictures. In the new session the nailing of Dani’s wrists had a long shot that showed her entire body reacting to the pain of those nasty long nails breaking through her flesh and bones to quickly dig into the hard wood underneath.
Every stroke of the hammer made Dani twist and jump in pain.
After the nasty nailing was done, Jac raised Dani’s body to a kneeling position, securing the crossbar on a hood set up on the metal contraption where Danis was first beaten.
Jac left Dani in that most uncomfortable and painful position, her back completely exposed to Jac’s cruel intentions, and went to set the camera to a new position, to repeat the entire sequence again, but before setting the camera Jac told his victim that he was going to lash her a bit, this time with the painful Flagelum. “There will be shedding of blood in this one” he announced.
After setting the camera again and placing Dani in the chosen position for the flagellation, Jac proceeded to beat the woman without any mercy, not even when Dani cried out in pain. There are no safe words or actions to stop the flogging. So, although Jac wasn’t sure if Dani was crying out in real pain or her acting was the usual great, he continued lashing her back until he felt he had enough of the action to set the camera again for a new angle of the flogging.
After a good number of angles were completed where Dani suffered the longest agony in her memory, Jac was ready to move on to the next sequence. He raised Dani to her feet and made her walk away under the lash, he did not tell her what was coming next.
He repeated the action a number of times to have all the angles he needed of the end of one sequence and the beginning of the next one. Then the day was done.
Dani wanted to know when will she have to return for more suffering. Jac told her that there were too many activities during the week and it would have to be in the middle of the coming week.
Those activities have to do with family issues. Jac’s brother is in town for a month and he normally organizes big lunches with large number of family members and friends. Two of those lunches and one of those parties were organized to celebrate Jac’s son’s birthday.
What happened when they got together in the set after all those events will be part of a new post.
Hello Magot, it’s been a while since we last contacted each other. I’ve been paying attention to your developments. Actually, I’ve always been curious about one thing: why don’t you offer some customized services with shorter content? I have to say that the works you produced before are all cinematic masterpieces (with a duration of over 1.5 hours, cinematic plots and effects), which are unique and excellent. However, I noticed that this year you seem to be facing some financial difficulties. I was thinking that if you could offer some customized torture content for specific scenes (many people may just want sensory stimulation), perhaps you could quickly collect some funds (through the cost of customization and the sale of short films). Of course, this is just a suggestion, and it may go against your original intention. But, you know, we have to keep up with the times. Thank you for reading my email!
Thank you for your comments and suggestions. The financial difficulties are always a problem, of course, we love to make big expensive movies like Justine or Maleficarum. Films that sell very well, but they don’t make us rich.
We’re considering making short clips of the many films we have, to offer them at clips4sale, and our stores as a way of increasing our income. We’re also working on launching a streaming channel, with all of our films, for 10 dollars a month. If we were to get a large enough number of subscriptions we can make some reasonably good income. If the number of subscribers is tiny, like 100 or less, then it’s a waste of time.
There are films like Martyr, with big plots and dramas mixed with the more stimulating scenes. Someone suggested we edit a version of Martyr with the torture scenes only and see what happens. I can say the same of films like Dead But Dreaming, maybe Olalla. I guess making clips of the scenes in those movies could be a good thing.
On the other hand we might be going in a whole different direction with the production of a TV series, very expensive, and good enough to land on places like Netflix. If that happens next year, we will be busy with that for a couple of years.
wanttoknowmore So what is the status of beginning the filming of the Crux 4 films? Will they be started in September?
Next week the team will be discussing how things are going as far as our resources situation. We are very close to launch the streaming channel, it was tough to get it together, it’s not as simple as it looks. The major issues are completed. There’s one more step to take, that’s to publish the site so it will go live.
The idea is to offer a low subscription, like 7 dollars per month for the first 3 months, payable at once. The rate will go to 10 after the first 3 months. That offer will be up only during the period of time that the streaming site will be “under construction” which means films will be added periodically, there will be some changes in design, and so on. Once the site is done, the low rate will be taken away and the official 10 per month will be activated.
There are a couple of other efforts to get the resources we need but I don’t have too much information about that.
We’re also seeing how our sales are going, to see if our average is higher than normal so we can have some of the money we need to produce.
There will be a production meeting to decide on dates of production; however, some of the funds have to be available.
The plan was to begin the production the first weekend of September, that would be the 6th, but we don’t have everything set for that date, so the plan is to begin the 18th. Our team will be working on the pre production beginning on September 3rd. During that week they will be arranging the production schedule.
The first film will take at least two weekends. We anticipate that the most difficult to organize will be the film about the Egyptian Priestess, which means that it could be the last to be shot, or at least the scenes that require some extensive work on the set, like the Isis Temple. The first sequence, where the characters are introduced in the first film of the series will be the first to be produced and it will include scenes for the beginning of at least other two of the films. I’ll have more news about that in my next post.
We might be releasing a new film soon. Another Making Off film from the Monxa Mala production. This time Dani Suffers The Wheel. I’ll be announcing that soon.
