Mistress of Montages

We shot the footage that became our “Sissy Bitch Spanked and Fucked!” video on the night that tia did his own makeup for the first time. Although I’d filmed the makeup-putting-on part of the evening I delayed publishing that bit (Sissy Puts On Her Face) until now because it took a LOT of editing. I spent half a day working on a clip that turned out to be about nine minutes.

“What is it that has to be done that takes so long?” people wonder. Let me try to explain..say I have shot some film of me buggering tia. What that will have involved is me setting up the lights & camera to film from one position, fucking him for a few minutes, then stopping to move the camera to another position. Repeatedly. I like to get multiple angles in and since we don’t generally have the services of a cameraman this is the only way to do it.

After the footage is shot what I’ll have is a collection of bits filmed from different angles, that have to be trimmed down (you don’t need to see me walking back and forth to the camera) and stitched together to form one continuous, and continuously exciting, scene. I put in things like crossfades, or fade-to-blacks, and each and every one of these has to be timed just right. There may be different sound levels that have to be adjusted too. Like if I am holding the camera my voice will be much louder than if it’s on a tripod six feet away. It’s very fiddly work. (Kinda perfect for my aspie nature.) And the more cuts and transitions I need to do, the longer it will take to edit the clip.

I knew that makeup bit would have a LOT of transitions, so I had to wait til I had time enough to work on it. I like to think my post-production skills are decent, and I get really chuffed when tia (who is a film geek) praises my work. And he has been going on about the excellence of my montage-making all morning. I think it was worth waiting for. :)