Equipment Issues Shooting Off-Site

Well, that's not an exciting title, I know. But for the few out there that still think that shooting bound-and-gagged chicks for money is all roses and boners, this blog post is for you. Let me bring you to the land of my first-world problems.

So, with lights and camera and rope all in tow, Natasha and I leave for the office setting of this shoot. We didn't hire a camera man, we decided we could do this from a tripod. Yes, we're trying to cut costs over here. Anyway, we get all set up and we shooting the video where Natasha meets a photographer for a shoot that requires a secretary to be all tied to a chair for an ad. We get a couple of angles done and then the camera just dies when rolling for the next shot. I restart it and we go again. It dies again. And the thing is, it doesn't die with a shout out so we know it's dead. We just happen to notice that the red light is gone. I have to go over to the camera and see when it stopped., and re-do what wasn't captured on tape from a different angle.

It's got to be the battery. This camera has not seen any use in a year, and now I determine that the battery is just bad. And I didn't bring a spare, something that I had always done for off-site shooting in the past, along with spare light bulbs. So here's Natasha, securely bound to the office chair and we're rather close to wrapping this scene up, and the camera won't run for more than a minute, and now it's just impossible to deal with. I was ready to just say "fuck it" for the day, and Natasha tells me to leave her tied to the chair and head home and return with the AC power cord. Since the round-trip is 1/2 hour, I balked at leaving her all tied up.

So, I untied her, we both made the trip home and back, and retied her to that damn chair the exact same way. Even talking about it now makes me curse. With power, we got the scene done. And despite all the trouble and friggin' cursing, it really turned out damn fine. It's in two parts. To purchase  these individually, her's the links to Part 1 and Part 2. Or head on over to Centaur to buy a pass and get 70 hours of bondage video along with these two.