Spontaneity in shoots is enjoyed by customers. It shows the model as being carefree and fun, attributes customers like to recall from their younger days, hanging out with young women – this is what the abbywinters.com paradigm tries to create. The sense of not knowing what will happen next is appealing for all customers – it’s what makes media entertaining.
The nature of many abbywinters.com shoots are designed and planned which means that spontaneity seldom occurs, but in Level 4 Solo shoots it’s a requirement.
A spontaneous element of a shoot is when something happens as a result of a sudden impulse or inclination and without premeditation or planning or direction. It comes when models have an open, natural, and uninhibited manner themselves, but also when Shoot Producers create an environment where models feel comfortable to explore their sexuality.
Some techniques include;
- Digging deep in the Pre Shoot Briefing (PSB)
- Understanding what the model enjoys about this kind of work (beyond earning money)
- Inviting the model to explore and collaborate in emotionally risky situations (but never physically risky!)
The results can include;
- Moments when it feels like the model and SP are “off script”, just “going with the flow”
- Unexpected events that “come out of left field”, with no build up
- Often fast paced, short-lived, with high emotions
Good examples are rare on abbywinters.com, but they can happen. Some examples include;
- All Nude in public series of shoots
- Ivana Solo, the whole video shoot feels improvised
- Ana Solo, shot in a second-story apartment, a window washer visits unexpectedly
- Paola Solo on the grass with a sprinkler (SP could have turned it on at unexpected moments)
- Oshun improv acting as a “secret agent”
- Helen S rides her bike nude outside
- Darcie A swan visits during a Video Masturbation shoot
- Olga V Taking topless selfies with random guys
- Tanya S It feels like the model and SP are making things up as they go when outdoors
- Samantha B posing with the ticket inspector (image 68)
- Gretel is visited by 15 navy recruits on a remote beach
- Fenna & Klara GGT3 – At the end just go to shower, not planned
The best spontaneous moments are genuine
The best spontaneous moments are genuine. That is, completely unplanned by the SP or model, just something that happens. We help models feel ready for this in the PSB, indicating to models that they have permission to do whatever they feel like once the camera is running as things come to them. For example;
38891 Lissa W Solo 3 @21:50 (due to be released on Sat 20 May 2023, will appear on her Model page) The model is interrupted as she starts talking while builders are banging in the distance. She uses the noise as music to dance to.
Spontaneous moments can be set up by the SP
The next-best spontaneous moments are set-up by the SP, which hopefully leads to unexpected action and real model reactions (spontaneous for the model, but not for the SP). For example;
✅ Setting the model up to get into a colder-than-expected swimming pool
✅ Handing the model a can of fizzy drink to open that SP has shaken up
✅ Getting the model to build a tower of as many boxes as she can (we know they will fall)
✅ Aiming the low-pressure hose at a model outside in the garden, “penalising” her whens he gets questions wrong on a quiz (or similar)
These things must be done with the model’s consent, but this can be done without “ruining” the genuine reaction we’re seeking, for example;
SP: Today, I’d like to experiment with your real reaction to cold water – how do you feel about that?
Model: Ok, but, how would that work?
SP: I was thinking some time during the shoot, I’ll introduce some cold water on you – you won’t know exactly when it’s coming, or how!
Model: Well it’s pretty warm today, so that might be quite welcome!
Of course, if the model indicates they are not comfortable with this plan, their wishes are respected.
Spontaneous moments can be “scripted”
While never preferred, spontaneous moments can be “scripted” with models who have a suitable personality. For example;
✅ Directing a model to suddenly jump in a pool at some point in the next five minutes.
If the model has responsibility for when the unexpected action will happen, there will likely be a moment where the model “talks themself into it” then takes sudden action, again making things appear spontaneous.
It is best if the SP doesn’t know exactly when a scripted event will come so the camerawork is “playing catch up” – adding to the feeling that the model suddenly decided to do something on her own.
✅ Including transitions into activities can make them appear to come from the model. For example;
A model moving about on an exercise ball is good content, a model entering a room, spotting a ball and leaping on it – that is spontaneous!
Techniques for capturing spontaneous action
Spontaneous actions should always be shot in full-body framing (similar considerations as for capturing MMaiA). , and never require CU “pickup” shots.
Spontaneous action can be emphasised with camera work. For example;
✅ Directing the model to, in the next five minutes, suddenly go to another room to fetch a prop.
When it happens, the SP is deliberately “left behind”, running to catch up with the model, rapidly adjusting camera settings to suit.
In the above scenario, the SP should select Conversation questions that would naturally lead to the model needing the prop they will go to fetch.
While never preferred, less-perfect tech is accepted during spontaneous moments (for example, poor exposure, shaky-cam, poor focus). It’s always fine to smash the video gain / still ISO up to the maximum to gain a few stops in dark environments (it’s better to see something in low quality, than to miss it entirely because it’s under-exposed).
Spontaneous ideas to explore
Some ideas that can lead to spontaneity include;
- Model flashes her breasts / buttocks from a window / balcony / while walking down the street
- Model runs to collect an item from a different room to better narrate the story she is telling (or to pee)
- Model jumping into a swimming pool with no warning (could be fully clothed)
- Model splashing toward the camera / SP with water – could be while in the bath / shower / pool / while washing up etc
- Model suddenly dancing / doing cardio based gymnastics
- Spontaneous laughter after something goes wrong (set the model up with an “impossible” task like stacking sofa pillows five-high on her head when nude)
- Model improv acting
- Give the model something outrageous to read out loud (eg, explicit erotica)
- The model drips hot wax on herself
- The model pees on herself
- The model (safeely) drives her car nude
- Have the model row a boat or kayak, with the SP as passenger, filming while the model rows