Chapter 05: Undress Rehearsal
OK, flashy-backy. Saturday's meeting.
Mandy and Lill and Nancy and me went up in a bunch and then Mrs Price turned up and we kind of wondered whether Paul would show and when he did it was as if he didn't realise that we were pretty much all pretty pissed off with him. The meeting started with a scrap mostly between Paul and Lill about stake, because Lill had brought Mandy - which you could see Paul wasn't pleased about - and Paul hadn't brought anyone. He said he'd signed up Jenny, but we none of us believed him (and Jenny never showed up to a Saturday session, so it probably wasn't true).
Then there was a scrap between Paul and pretty much everyone else about who was going to get to own the final tape and what was going to happen to it because it turned out Paul was calmly assuming it would be his and he'd sell it and keep the money. And we all said no way that was on, and Mrs Price said that she would keep all the tapes and she and I would do the editing at her house and then everybody who'd been in on the filming would get to see a screening and then we'd discuss what to do with it, but everyone whose face was identifiable in a sex scene would have a complete veto and if anyone used their veto then she would personally destroy all the material and was that OK? And we all agreed it was except Paul who was obviously pissed off.
Then Lill asked if we really actually wanted to do the porn stuff. To my surprise Nancy came in first saying very positively yes she really did, and then I said well, I wanted to do these extra scenes and I wanted them to be erotic and if that was porn then I was cool with it but I kind of hoped it was going to be sort of a bit better than just porn. And then Lill said if we were in she was in. And Mandy said she was in 'cause she wanted to see what would happen, and she'd go though with it. And Paul said yes of course he was in, wasn't it his idea in the first place...
And then I said "What about you, Mrs Price?"
"Well, partly I want to see what you lot can do, and partly I would kind of like to make a good one for once, and I think this could be it."
"Like," said Mandy, "you've done them before?"
Mrs Price sort of grinned and blushed.
"I think you've all seen me."
We kind of all stared at her.
"You remember that one on the motor yacht that's been kicking round the school this term? Where the girl on the wind surfer gets kidnapped and raped? That girl was me."
"Eeewwwww..." said Nancy. "That looked nasty. Was that all at once thing like... for real?"
"Yeah, that one was nasty. They were a nasty bunch of people and I never did another film with them. But yes, one in my cunt, one in my butt and one in my mouth..."
There was like this cognitive dissonance thing going on for me listening to a teacher saying this stuff, but the girls seemed to be getting something different out of it, like more empathetic. Lill and Nancy both visibly squirmed, like they could sort of feel it, and Mandy looked - I don't know - kind of intrigued.
"Christ!" said Mandy. "I didn't know you could really do that. I thought it was faked. What does it feel like?"
"Well, that time it was awful. But there was another film later where I did a two in one, like one in my cunt and one in my butt, where there was this female director who got me all pampered up and massaged and lubed and stuff before the scene, and that was actually this really amazing sensation. Really full and tight and sort of liquidy and all this movement and sensation going on. You'd be surprised what you can do when you try..."
"Hey," said Paul, "maybe we could..."
and we all kind of turned on him and said No.
Lill said why did you do it? and Mrs Price said she'd done six, and they'd paid for her last year at college, and she'd mostly enjoyed them except the one we'd seen, but she wasn't ashamed even of that one.
After that she said we really need to get ahead with workshopping the sex scenes. Mrs Price started us off with the witch queen scene, which she was going to do. And, which I didn't expect at all, she asked Mandy to go outside and stand lookout, and then she just peeled off like it was the most natural thing. Paul sort of blanched and said should he get his kit off too and she said no way, not at this stage.
And then she turned to me. "OK, this scene is supposed to take place in the prison, but will you actually have room to shoot it in there or do we dummy up somewhere else to look like it's in the prison?" I said let's try it and we opened up the gate full wide and Mrs Price and Paul went in there and Paul said, OK, how do we do this?
Lill had the script and read through the direction for the scene (which wasn't much - there was no dialogue) and Mrs Price asked to see the storyboard and she was standing beside me looking at the storyboard just like naked and I wasn't completely cool with it.
"This bit where I do the incantation and he comes erect, how are we going to do that? Can you do an effects shot that doesn't look completely cheap and naff?"
I said I didn't know because I'd never done anything like that before but the best we could do is like shoot it and see, like we'd do one shot from his viewpoint to her where she's doing the incantation thing and then we do two shots from her viewpoint to him, one where he's soft and one where he's erect and then we cut them together. Then we maybe do some post production to put some light effect in but if that didn't work then we'd just have to go with the cut and like imply the magic.
Then she said that I hadn't done a storyboard for the actual fuck (she said 'fuck' just like it was a normal word), and I said I hadn't because I wasn't sure how it would work, because her character had to be in control and I didn't know how to do that. She said, OK, they'd workshop it and I should work out my camera angles and if I wanted them to hold position while I made a sketch just say.
Then she said "OK, I come in through the door. You, Paul are lying on the floor - Kyle, which way is it best to have him facing?"
"He ought to be facing the doorway really, so that you come in and it's immediately a confrontation. Like you don't want to have to sort of have to walk round him..."