Back from the playground

Posted on May 1, 2008 by ian

Phew! That was an intense couple of days. We’ve been shooting in that huge warehouse I mentioned the other day. Set designer and committed collector Mike has transformed 5,000 square meters of empty warehouse into a wonderland of sets which range from Edwardian music room to sixties minimalist, all-white area – and the best part is, it’s all modular, so we can shoot in the sets they’ve created or steal stuff from other areas to make our own.

We of course couldn’t decide which area we wanted to shoot in most, so we went there for two days and shot four videos in a row!

Great sets deserve great men and as well as shooting with a couple of the site’s best, we also looked hard for some great new guys – and we found them

It was hard work, but a lot of fun. Now I feel a Bank Holiday weekend calling!

Committed to Quality

Posted on April 21, 2008 by ian

Our recent update ‘Sweeny 5-The Cut’ was actually shot last summer along with several other Sweeney episodes. We knew that Dillon Buck wouldn’t be available for a while, so we made a little stock for our members.
Then of course we continued shooting more great videos – each one vying for a place in the update schedule, and before we know it, it’s a year later and we still have a Sweeney episode waiting to go on the site!

Watching something that was shot a year ago was a little strange for us and brought back a few memories of that summer.
It’s also the last video we shot with a standard definition camera.
The main cam was hi-def of course, but being a young site, we couldn’t stretch our budgets to buying two hi-definition cameras until just after this shoot.

What few cam 2 clips we see are fine, but we’re glad we invested in state-of-the-art High Definition cameras a year ago because they’ve greatly increased the quality of our content.
As time goes on, we’ve invested further in new equipment to improve quality even further and we’ll continue to do so. Take a look at those very early videos in our bonus section if you’d like to compare!

Of course, video for streaming and downloading is compressed to keep file sizes down and while it looks pretty damn good, I suppose the difference will be really visible when we finally release some of our films on DVD.

Introducing Leo

Posted on January 24, 2008 by ian

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We almost always shoot guys solo before asking them to take part in one of our feature videos, but there are exceptions to the rule, and we’ve been quite lucky in these cases. Last weekend, we’d rented a good location and had a great script which deserved the best guys. As you’ll all know, in life, it’s pretty easy to get two out of three things to fall into place, but getting all three happens less often. So as none of our regular guys were available, we took a chance on a couple of new guys who both looked great and just hoped it worked out.
Now I know you’re all ahead of me and know what’s coming next.. that’s right; one of the guys didn’t show.
Sometimes things happen and ‘plan B’ turns out to be just as good, if not better than ‘Plan A’ ; We had the luxury of getting to know this new hunk, and time to play around and experiment a little (technically!) and the results are pretty damn good – a great solo video, introducing Leo in the best possible way, and putting things back in their proper order.

Yes, this situation certainly turned out for the best. We think Leo’s a cracker and we get to meet him close up.
And that feature video?; We’ll be shooting that tomorrow, with Leo, in an even better location. And even better, we’re now able partner Leo with Dean Monroe. Imagine how hot that’s going to be!

So I guess the guy who didn’t show up did everyone a favour.

I can hardly wait to shoot Dean and Leo together. I’ll let you know how it goes.