sjames8 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:59 pm
Out of curiosity Nyghtfall, how have you fared over the years with any custom material?
I've financed four customs since 2013:
In Thirty by PKF in 2013
Kendra's Demise by EVW in 2014
Night Shower by PKF in 2015
Red Ledger by Crime House in 2020
In Thirty was primarily an experiment in putting my money where my mouth was. As I've demonstrated here, I'm quite opinionated about fetish content and kept being told to finance a custom if I didn't like what studios were putting out or their clients were commissioning. After saving up several hundred dollars a few times only to spend it on other things, I finally pulled the trigger.
In Thirty and
Night Shower are the only two that, for the most part, came out how I wanted and left me wanting to work with PKF again. I re-edited both and still thoroughly enjoy them but
Night Shower especially rocked my world. In stark contrast,
Kendra's Demise and
Red Ledger were both unmitigated disasters with regard to the throatlifts.
sjames8 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:59 pm
I’ve often been tempted to go that route, but if it didn’t work out I think that would be the ultimate kick in the nuts.
If you're a control freak like me, it's a creatively harrowing experience. From the moment I start drafting a script, the vision I have of the finished product is foremost on my mind and the anxiety I feel about whether I'm going to get my money's worth never starts to diminish until I'm finally watching it. I would've paid a King's ransom to have been able to film all four of my projects myself because I knew exactly what I wanted to see and how I wanted them shot.
The closest I managed to get to being on set was when I sent PKF a clip of the bathroom strangling in Brian de Palma's
Blow Out to demonstrate the kind of shot-for-shot direction I wanted for my fetish-themed remake for
In Thirty. I also sent them a 3D render of the camera angle I wanted for the closeups on Lily's feet in
Night Shower. In retrospect, I made the mistake of not doing something similar with EVW and Crime House and just tried my best to script out what I had in mind.
As I wrote in another thread, my wife recently greenlit my desire to become a fetish photographer someday, so I'm now working toward that goal, but I'd like to finance one more custom with PKF so I can end my experience paying others to shoot my ideas on what I believe would be a high note.