Birthdays Galore

August is the month of birthdays for our team. It was Dani’s birthday, followed by Erix birthday, then Eric our torturer’s day of birth, then Ligia, the soon to be crucified three times, happy day. There were others as well, family members and friends. Lots of parties, BBQ’s, drinking and merriment for all.

Last night, Saturday the 30th, was Ligia’s party. Jac attended at one point after a family BBQ event that took all afternoon. He left his brother at a tea party with friends, Erix went to perform at a club with his acoustic band, he was three bands. Jac spent some time with his cats and then off to Ligia’s party.

It was there that Jac met with Simonne who showed up with a surprise that I can’t discuss, but for Jac it was a surprise, totally unexpected. The party was full of Ligia’s friends, a lot of them were very nice looking young women who are models and a few of them told Jac they would love to try acting. Big smile.

During their conversation at the party Jac mentioned to Simonne that he would love to get together with her and the others sometime soon to discuss the shooting of Crucified Four. The director mentioned one scene in particular he would love to work on soon, with all the main characters. That’s the introduction sequence for the first movie and it will include bits for the introduction for the other three. He mentioned that it will take one weekend.

Simonne was ready and willing. She mentioned that she was now going fulltime back to the university for her degree and she was pretty busy all week until December, but weekends were fine.

wanttoknowmore I would guess that given the other principle actors are not needed for Simmonne’s crux scenes, logistically that should be number 2 in the filming sequence. 

The production will follow a chronological order as much as possible. However, the exterior scenes will most likely be done one after the other in the order of the stories. Ligia first, Mila second, Dani third and finally Simonne. That’s the order of crucifixions. Each film has its own particular demands for the crucifixions.
Depending on locations, the sentencing will also be done in order because all four happen in the same location. The scenes that will be a bit more complicated are the raping of Paulina at the temple and the poisoning of the Governor at the palace. Those are two locations that only appear in one film. The raping of Paulina in Mila’s story and the poisoning of the Governor in Simonne’s story.

I won’t know the exact order of the production until probably the end of next week. I know that there are plans to go to the main location with a drone sometime by the end of next week. Another issue that the team is dealing with next week is the cash issue. 

In the middle of a week full of events Dani and Jac got together to continue their task of putting the recently celebrated actress to more and more suffering.

The session Jac had in mind for that day was going to continue the actions that were completed during the previous session of torments for Dani where she was mercilessly flogged while on the ground, her naked back the target of her tormentor, the crossbar attached to the metal frame in front of the woman holding half of her body above ground, held by her wrists nailed to the wood.

After lashing Dani’s back bloodied, Jac raised her to her feet and made her walk, under the lash, to the chain hanging from the ceiling at the center of the set. After setting the crossbar on the chain, the crucified woman was ready for more torments beginning with more lashing of the Flagelum, leaving her torso shredded by the lash.

You can go a long way to address the cash issue by getting Jac to focus on actually finishing and releasing the at least 3 CruxBound films that are done or a step away, the other Dani film you were hawking during the first fundraising effort for the Crux 4 series, etc. Enough of making private films with the latest recruit. Focus!

The film in production happening now is CruXbound III, where Dani gets ready for her torments in Crucified Four. It is not a private film with a latest recruit.

The only one that was kind of completed, two versions of it, was CruXbound IV with Simonne, and I mean the production. It is in post now. The one with Ligia had a good start but the schedules for her and Jac got complicated, a contract she got at the Ministry of Tourism, which ends today, August 31st, kept her busy with office work, lots of traveling and so on. The one with Mila didn’t even start. It might happen or it might not.

CruXbound III, the one happening now with Dani, should be done next week. There were some comments Dani made that in some way will change where the story will go. I know that next week Dani and Jac will meet to shoot some angles of what they did during their session this week. The production might end there. So we will have two of those four films planned. The other two might or might not happen.

I don’t know what influence you have as far as film production goes, but hope you folks take into account the weather window constraints and concentrate on the outdoor scenes, especially the crux scenes, up front so you don’t run out of weekends before the rainy season requiring lowering the quality and or content of said scenes. I have no doubt the weather and lighting issues affected the crux scene content in Saditiosa.

The weather in the next three to four months will be fine. The heavy rain begins in January. December has some rain, but nothing that will affect production. The lighting when the sun is involved does not change much unless it gets cloudy, which will happen a lot during the next few months. It didn’t happen as much when Seditiosa was produced, it was extremely sunny and that had an effect, yes.

Maybe it would’ve been better to postpone that film until September of that year and things would’ve been different, less sunny, less cold, but the cry of the crowds would’ve been too much to bear. There were other issues as well that had an effect in the results of the work. I’m not saying that the work was not good, what I’m saying is that the conditions at that time affected the overall look and taste of the film.

This time we’ll have cloudy days, maybe even a bit of rain, which sometimes is very good to create an atmosphere and because only one person will be crucified at a time, the entire production will be concentrated on that one person. Each crucifixion will take one weekend to pull through because of the fact that there’s only one victim. That means FOUR weekends of crucifixions. One weekend for the introduction scenes. One weekend for the capture of the warrior scene. A separate day and location for the torturing of the Warrior.

The sentencing scenes are in interiors, each will take a few hours, not necessarily on weekends. The sentencing involves some torture, flogging and mocking of the victims. The raping of Paulina and the attempted rape of the Slave and the poisoning of the governor with the capturing of Simonne take place in different locations, all interior and each will need special production design, so those will be shot after all the exteriors are done.

There’s some flexibility for those scenes as far as day of the week, hour of the day and all that. And they are all in different locations.

In the meantime Jac will be torturing and crucifying Dani to get in shape and maybe he’ll do the same to Mila and Ligia. Maybe during the days between weekends. Anything can happen then.

There’s a heavy week coming up, with pre production and production work, maybe some post production, arranging the cash flow for the four films, closing the location work, casting and things like that. If all goes well the production of Crucified Four will start in two weeks.

This coming week the main cast will get together with the director and decisions will be taken then.

We will be releasing a film or two as well and the streaming page might be launched. Heavy week.

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