Customers are spoiled for choice, and many abbywinters.com shoots look “samey”. When customers perceive that “saminess” to be a detriment, they stop being our customer and seek entertainment elsewhere 😢.
(Other customers enjoy the “reliability” of our shoots – they know what they are going to get with an abbywinters.com shoot, kind of like a soap opera! We cater to them well, but we introduce variety less often than our customers prefer).
One way of addressing that concern is to make our Solo shoots radically different sometimes – this is why Level 4 was created.
Some techniques for making L4 Solo shoots radically different include;
- Change Stills vs Video content and balance
- Stills and Video never have to “match” at Level 4
- If one medium was radically different, the other might be in line with strong Level 3 Solo if the idea does not work well in both mediums (for example, Darya Solo standing in a street (video was not actually shot for this shoot, but could it have had a “normal” video component)
- If an idea ideally suited to one medium, pitch to the CD, who may approve one-medium-only Solo shoot
- Start at the end
- For example, show the model masturbating to orgasm but just seeing her face and covered breasts. Then work backwards to show how she got to that point before filming a full body nude orgasm at the end.
- Be sure to still manage the customer’s emotion over time!
- Apparently self-shoot
- SP operates the cameras, but the model reaches out to hold it
- Some “cheating” is allowed (SP holds the camera a little further away than the model could on her own, but the model’s arm is reached toward the camera in all shots);
- Wide-angle lens required for both cameras
- It is essential the model’s camera-hand-fingers are fingers never shown, to maintain the illusion
- Voyeurism theme
- Video shot in wides (to emulate hidden video cameras)
- Stills shot with long telegraphic lens, from a far distance, through a door or window
- Pitch idea to CD for approval of budget for hiring special equipment (go-pro, tele lenses)
- Implement a model’s sexual fantasies
- Review the model’s IM questionnaire answers, and plan a whole shoot (or part of the shoot) where we create one of those
- Use flashbacks
- eg, A model saying “One time I masturbated in my car…”, video cuts to the model masturbating in her car
- If a model shares that she has changed how she masturbates, we could flashback to how they used to do it in the beginning (in a different outfit and apparent location and styling); consider a split screen in post so old her and new techniques are shown side by side.
- Use voice overs
- The model shares what they are doing and thinking as they masturbate
- The masturbation scene needs to be recorded first, then watched by the model (with muted audio), while she does a “director’s commentry” recorded separately
- Our Post producers will overlay the audio with the video
- Audio must be extremely well-recorded for this to work well – ask CD for tips
- Deep diving fetish or single assessment area
- Insertions, larger and larger items with lots of lube; insertions, but anal insertions only; only with found objects; sex toy operated remotely by the SP
- Make shoots with an appealing theme, for example “The shoot where the model does hockey drills in her uniform, then again when nude”
- Explore different tech attributes
- Shoot (correctly) in full direct sunlight; or at sunset and magic hour
- Shoot with a particular lens (eg, Canon L-series 85 f1.2 outside; LensBaby)
- Shot entirely with “found light” in a darker environment (eg, mobile phone screen, tablet screen, TV, candles, desk lamps, floor lamps, light from the fridge); use very high ISO
- Shoot in a darker environment with on-camera flash as the only light source for stills, and a camera-mounted point source of light for video
- Shoot with a LED tube and colours (careful to have mostly-white front light)
- Shooting in a historic time period
- Collect props and select a setting that suits a specific period, with a model styled appropriately (eg, this shoot of Laney, 70’s theme)
- Make the entire shoot with a modern mobile phone
- Maybe shoot entirely portrait – video as well 🤯
- Consider if this shopuld appear to be “shot by a boyfriend” or self-shot (either could work well, but dont mix the styles)
- (Never mix portrait and landscape in video, however)
- Wear modest makeup
- But otherwise a “normal” L4 AW shoot
- Less foundation, but modest lips and eyes
- Start the shoot wrapped in a sheet
- Nude underneath; manage customer’s emotion over time carefully
- Make entire shoot in a constrained environment
- Eg in a car, Anthea, After Dark; never use a “fancy” car, the older and shittier the better!
- Eg, Melita in a cupboard under the stairs
- Combine with shooting with a mobile phone, to make it seem like “boyfriend shooting girlfriend”
- In a caravan, campervan, truck cab, tent or similar
- In a “tacky” hotel room
- Extensive hula hooping
- Model must be skilled and have a shapely body to suit; discuss with CD
- Range of clothing levels, but maximum nude-only
- Not fancy stuff (well, maybe roller skates), just around the hips and waist with one hoop.
- Underwater
- Or at least a mix, with many underwater shots
- At the beach, on the sand, in the water
- In the pouring rain
- Min outside air temp must be at least 22°C – a summer storm
- Introduce another model to appear in the “Solo” shoot (pitch required to CD)
- One musical model accompanies a dancing model on piano
- One model is just there, watching and engaging non-sexually, appearing in most shots
- Use lingerie provided by customers
This is not the definitive list but intended to get the Shoot Producers own ideas flowing!
Most ideas will not “carry” an entire shoot and so are best combined with others to make a very textured and interesting shoot.