yyy02 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:11 pm
I really would like it if Alex would just shoot enough so he didn't have to reuse footage. I honestly think he would benefit from a little shorter, "punchier" videos. His newest editor does great with continuity and seems sharp enough to solve that problem. But they need to be given enough raw footage to use.
I agree about the short and "punchier" approach. The other problem with this type of production is financial. Unfortunately with the meager resources available there is no way anyone can produce what mainstream producers can. There are scenes in cinema that last less than five minutes but are intense and memorable.
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I agree, CW videos they are becoming a bit boring, especially the repetition, also I would like them to be more ‘’punchier’’and with a more effective approach, more mainstream. Is the same thing that I’m repeating for a long time.
I’ve found the cinematic mainstream approach in Electric City Videos, especially in the last one called Caught In War And Tortured.
I managed to talk to Igor, one of the producers and they had a very tough year. But the good news is that they are releasing new videos soon and also a new custom ordered from me is being filmed. Can’t wait to see their new stuff
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I assume everyone here understands that Alex shoots customs. He doesn't write the scripts. One of us (or someone else) submits one and he tries to find models to do it. I agree, as I watch the caps posted here, that some are extremely repetitive. But skim through the caps for my customs on Crux Forums
https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/p ... orld.9999/
(Assassin Captured, Private Order, The Bet, Present from an Old Friend, Kidnapped and more), and you'll find a wide range of nastier and more differentiated material. In more recent ones I've managed to get English captions included to help tell the story. Yes, I suppose they are repetitive, since most include frontal whipping, some burning, some pliers, some stripping and lots of electro torture of breasts and pussy. But in each there is a situation described and acted by the model beyond just standing in the same bondage position. Alex (and Cry or Arina or Tay) are capable of doing some pretty amazing work when the script calls for it.
I know Frog likes electric city, and I have bought several of their videos. They are cruel, have some hot models and they do stretch the limits a bit. However, they combine poor production values (at least in their earlier stuff) and a "cinematic" approach (which I guess means fuzzy and poorly lit). Worst of all, they are so repetitive--even reusing the same footage in multiple videos--that I have usually felt a bit cheated. Get one or two and you pretty much have them all. I'm glad to hear that Frog will be working up a custom with them, and I might buy it if it looked in some way different.
Alex shoots with 3 or 4 cameras, so the action can be seen from multiple angles. And yes, when there are a couple angles of the same nice torture/response, the editor will include them in the final product. I suppose he could require that each scene appear from only one angle in the final video, so only the person who ordered the custom could see all the angles of the best shots. I agree that there are slow parts where Alex is "acting". He's not Francis Ford Coppola or Robert Altman, so pacing is not necessarily a strength, but go back and watch HOM or ZFX or Paingate/Whipped Women, even PD's stuff, and you can make the same complaints. The point is that short of a big-budget "Poor Cecily", the best of Cruel World is pretty damned good at delivering what the custom orderer imagined. To see Cry, tied AOH and spread wide open with whip marks and damage from pliers on her nude body, pumping her pussy and rolling her breasts under pulsing electric shocks, and to be able to own it for $20, is a dream for someone who's been seeking BDSM gold since the early 70's.
