The Cali Logan Trip

After the success of the Liberty Girl video I wanted to step away from that project. I felt pressure to make it's sequel even better and that was looming over me. I wasn't very motivated to work on it. At some point the idea to do an Amazing Girl video with Cali Logan came up. I thought that would be fun. I've never met her and she's kind of a celebrity in this genre.

I wasn't in charge of scheduling. V does all that. Anyway, the time in which we wanted to produce the film didn't quite work with Cali Logan's schedule. She was busy and flying out to work with us just wasn't possible. After some creative thinking we all agreed that we would fly out to her. This would be great we thought. Spend a little extra time on the other side of the country... see some sites... do some work... Goodtimes!

I won't bore you with the vacation part but the work situation was interesting. It's a bit difficult flying into a new situation. Not know what your locations are going to be and not knowing the people you are going to be working with. Most of my productions I'm at the location the day before production planning out how the fights will go down. Staging of certain action events. Not knowing these things ahead of time means you need to do them during the production and it slows you down. That also causes you to cut more elaborate sequences out of your film.

I think the production went down pretty well! Cali Logan is one of the nicest and down to earth people I've met. She was great to work with. The other thug we worked with, Sergio, he was great fun to work with as well. I think this video came together really well. It's not a very complicated video but I think it looks sexy and I had a fun time producing it. V was also able to gather quite a bit of photo content for www.superherogirls.com . I do have some regrets. I think I should have thrown in a cat fight towards the end and made the sexual peril scene a bit shorter. Another thug would have been nice too but that was a budget issue. This was a bit of a spendy production overall and we needed to cut corners where we could.

Overall this was a good experience. It also motivated me to get back on the Liberty Girl train. All aboard!!!

-bpd

I didn't see this coming...

I don't quite remember how it happened now but I was talking with V and she was saying that I should make a Liberty Girl video. She seemed enthusiastic about bring Alex David back from her hiatus and stepping back in front of the camera. We didn't rush into anything. I started to think about potential story lines and started thinking that if I do this I should do a trilogy. V was in agreement. Another thing we decided to do was to up the level of sexual peril in the films. This was something that hadn't really been seen in a lot of SHG flicks and it was something that would bring a bit of an edge to this particular story. Anyway, I went into my hole and started writing the first chapter to what would become "Liberty Girl: The Return".

The production of this film started off fairly well. If you have seen the film, we started with the 3-on-1 fight sequence. There was a lot of experimentation with the fight choreography and I shot this mostly handheld. It's also the only part of the film where there are more than two members in the cast. After we wrapped that day I was feeling fairly good about where this project was headed. However shit was gonna hit the fan. Subsequent production days with The Obsidian and Liberty Girl characters would be tough and rather tense on set. Let me interject here... pull the curtain back a bit. The Obsidian character was played by myself, bpd. On top of that I was the camera man running two cameras. Just Alex DaVid & myself. No other crew.  There would be times where we would be arguing with each other. We'd call it a day and I would think to myself this film is just not gonna work. There was a point where I was pretty upset and just done with the film. I didn't want to work on it anymore. However as a filmmaker I hate quitting and sometimes you just need to push through. Focus on what needs to happen and get it done. Anyway, eventually we did manage to get everything we "needed" to complete the first chapter. Do to time constraints and being burnt out some story elements got cut from the original script. (Which would end up to be a positive for LG2 since I was able to bring a better story to the table but I'll talk about that in another post.) One negative to the production was that the footage shot with the 2nd camera was all blown out. Something I'm not proud of. Acting, directing and running two cameras... something is going to go wrong. It was a poor mistake and one I won't be making again.

Post production of the film went fairly easy. Aside from the blown out footage that I tried to correct, everything seemed to come together rather well. I remember cutting the trailer and having that uploaded. Right away there was fan reaction. I did really like that trailer... probably the best I've cut. Anyway, SHG ended up have some issues to resolve before getting the whole film uploaded. This caused more fan reaction. Some negative but mostly positive in anticipation. I remember getting word that LG: The Return had been uploaded and was ready for sale.

TIME FOR A DRINK!

We went out to a bar with some friends. I remember feeling relief that the film was done but also really nervous. I just remember drinking a lot that night. At some point I got word that over on www.heroinemovies.com, fan reviews started coming in. To say that they were gushing would be an understatement. I think this is where the hype for the film started. Obviously I was over joyed. I could not have imagined that this would happen. Even the following day fans leaving comments and starting whole other topics based around the film was crazy to me. Honestly i was overwhelmed and a bit nervous to make another film. Something I think I'm still dealing with now in heading into production of LG2.

I'm sure there are some things I missed. If you have any questions then leave a comment and I'll get back to you. Thanks for reading!

-bpd

The beginning.

I've decided to start a blog about my adventures in fetish filmmaking. I hope someone finds this interesting. Anyway, I figured I'd start at the beginning.

I have a degree in video production and I also work professionally in the industry. However I'm a filmmaker at heart. I've been a struggling filmmaker for far too long. Anyway, In the midst of production of my epic Sci-Fi film... we lost our lead actress. We held auditions to find a new girl. Enter "Alex David". From this meeting and eventual casting we "finished" my film. Anyway, it was through Alex that I learned about the heroine peril genre.

Now I'm a huge comic book geek. I have 10 long boxes in my collection and a library of trades and hardbacks. I love superheros! The heroine peril genre interested me. Now, I'm gonna be honest... not all the fetish elements are my cup of tea. I do however love seeing hot girls in skimpy costumes fighting. I also LOVE heels... just wanted to throw that in there. ;-) There was talk early about me doing a peril film because of my background but I declined. I just wasn't sure if it was something I wanted to get into. I was really busy with other projects and I was worried that I just could not produce the type of material that the fans of this genre wanted.

Well... a few months went by and eventually I warmed to the idea of directing a peril film for SHG-Media. I'll go into the production of my first film on another post. I just wanted to say that though I'm not a consumer of the heroine peril genre, I feel as a filmmaker it is my duty to produce the best content possible. I hope fans will respect my honesty and realize my commitment to creating high quality content. In the end the product should speak for itself.

That's it for now. Hope you enjoy the blog! Please leave comments and I will reply to questions.

-bpd

P.s. bpd is a reference to my old garage band. It is typed in lower case... just in case you were wondering. =)