Packing for a Spanking Shoot
Photos, Scenology, Shooting Films — By Adele on 30 March, 2006 11:16 am
If there is one magic power I’m pining for right now, it’s to be able to levitate clothes into suitcases as I recline on a sofa drinking tea. Normally I travel light, but when I arrive for a shoot, I might as well be wheeling my wardrobe behind me on a leash.
Packing is a serious business. Let’s say I’m going for a one-day shoot. Let’s be really conservative, and say that the call sheet specifies five scenes. This means five plastic bags with complete costumes, labeled with an index of everything I’ll need in the scene.
Yes, I really do need the index. Changing between scenes is a chaotic affair – I’m still buzzing from the previous spanking, but am trying to get into the right head for my next one, and the changing room looks like a knicker truck has exploded in it; there’s no time to sit and think about which lipstick I was going to use, and what I had planned to do with my hair. It’s easier just to grab everything out of the bag and marry it to the right accessories.
One bag of costume can take a while to assemble, and a whole suitcase can turn into a nightmare. I’ve just gone through the list of stuff I need for an eccentric young madam I’m playing on Saturday, and it looks something like this: dress, petticoat, panties, bra, stockings, garter belt, shoes, gloves, ring, bracelet (crossed out) pretty watch, hair scrunchie, hair ribbon, transparent lip gloss, grey eye shadow. If I could sit on the sofa and make every piece of costume fly out of its storage place and dive into the bag, it would take about a minute to pack; as it is, I just know that I’ll be able to find one stocking but not the other, or that the white net gloves I want are serving as the cat’s toys right now – whereas the maroon ones I don’t want will be right there, folded in the drawer.
It helps a little that on this occassion the producers are providing me with a lot of pieces of uniforms, but I still need a list of accessories, and it’s the accessories that I’ll have to hunt down all through the house – all those ribbons to match with the watch bracelet to match with the lipstick to match with the eventual colour of my ass.
And here’s Murphy’s Law as applies to spanking models: you will never have enough time to shoot the set that had required the most complex costume.
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Luckily Adele….you only need the one costume this time….the joys of prison uniform!!!
L xxx
Yes, but it helps when I’m there to plait your hair and fasten your garters, doesn’t it? Ah, the joys of being Ms Haze’s personal dresser! ;-)
I’m playing an eccentric young madam too, but not quite as impeccably attired as you. I may just pack in character and shove some goth stuff and torn fishnets in a bag and color myself packed. I AM meant to be psychotic, after all. I went shopping for a new victim today and I only hope Matron doesn’t develop a soft spot. Heh heh…
Leia, believe me, I’ve been blessing that uniform every day this week. The suitcase is going to be so light!
Niki, I’ve got so used to taking advantage of your hair-plaiting skills, I don’t know what I’m going to do next time I shoot without you. I’ll have to pay you to come and do my hair. ;) (And I don’t think you could find a soft spot on Matron if you poked her all over.)
Heh! Love the Murphy’s Law. Quite true too you know! Not that I have ever required indexing for outfits but I do remember packing one outfit for a shoot that had lots of parts to it and then it not being required by the producers as we ran out of time (Not one of my shoots I hasten to add!) In fact, so peed off was I, I insisted staying late and shooting the movie that the outfit was required for anyway since I’d humphed it from Glasgow to London!
Good Lord! How *do* you keep everything in your head without indexing? Is it practice, or something?
If I didn’t keep an index, I’d be forever forgetting to wear the single thing I’m proud of in a particular outfit…