Liz and her crazy film

Postby Amagi420 » Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:49 pm

Liz and her crazy film



It was a rainy day in mid August, cold for the time of year. Kevin was sitting at home working on getting a head start on some annoyingly useless project his prof had dished out the week before when Liz called.
Liz studies photography and has a natural gift for it, largely considered to be one of the best in her program. She has an especial affinity for wildlife and nature photographs but at College she focuses more on “artistic” and portrait photographs.
“Hey Kevin! Can you help me out tonight?”
“Sure” Kevin was actually a bit infatuated with Liz, and while he wouldn’t risk there friendship by pushing the issue he certainly never missed an opportunity to hang out or work together on a project.
It was around 8:00PM when Kevin put some of his equipment together and left his apartment to head over to the school studio. Liz hadn’t asked him to bring anything so he had packed light, only grabbing a couple of nice lenses and some cleaning supplies, he hated going to a shoot empty handed.
When Kevin was about halfway to the school Liz texted him to say they where at her friend’s house, not the school studio. Kevin figured it was a late minute shoot and they hadn’t been able to get a studio. The address she gave him wasn’t too out of the way and he had left early so he still arrived ahead of schedule.
Liz’s friend Kate met him at the door.
“Hey Kevin thanks so much for coming to help out.” She held the door for him as he entered and removed his shoes.
“No problem at all, any excuse not to have to do my stupid report tonight”
“Of couse” She laughingly agreed leading him down the hall to the living room where the equipment was staged.
“So what’s the project anyway?”
“Liz didn’t fill you in? It sweet, a horror romance deal. This is the scene where the female lead tries to rescue the male from the insane asylum and get her head blown to bits” She smiled sweetly at the last.
Kevin looked at her “You guys have problems” He was laughing tho “But that actually sounds amazing, how are you handling vfx?”
“All in camera, where just not showing the actual head explosion, just the splash of blood” She shrugged as if to say what do you want from me.
“You guys are shooting video?
“Ya, it’s a bit out of our element that’s why we wanted you.”
“Shit!” That was Liz from the other room
“What?” Kate ran to the doorway to see what had gone wrong,
Kevin heard some more frantic voices but decide to let them figure it out, they could grab him if they needed him, instead he set about cleaning the lenses and setting up the lights.
“Ok what if one of us stands in and we just frame out the face or something?”
“How? Just show their legs?”
“We could blindfold them?”
“With what a tea towel?”
A moment later Liz entered with the sitrep. “Our second actor, Mike Norman, just bailed, said he had other commitments. F***ing craigslist actors!”
“Shit, what do you need ill make some calls?”
“Male, 6.1 brown hair is enough, where trying to figure out how to hide the face now.”
“How about a blind fold?”
“Thought of that but it would have to look realis--“ Liz stopped “Hold on a second”
She ran back to the kitchen where Kate was on the phone, judging by the sound of her voice.
“Kate what about that shop on King street” Kate laughed in response, “Are you serious?” There was an adult “toy” shop on king street that she was doubtlessly referring to. While this would not be standard practice for a set any costume store would be closed by now on a Sunday night, and during production anything goes.
“Well it would work wouldn’t it?”
“Ya I guess so, your going tho, no way I am”
Liz rolled her eyes “Fine ill be back in 15min”
Kevin exhausted his supply of contacts with no great success and only one “maybe ill call you back” and set about lighting the set. They would have to make up time some ware.
He was just finishing with the first set up when he heard Liz return and went to the front to meet her.
Kate was already there. “Ok so Amanda is on her way she’s ready to go, but we still have no one to replace Mike” She looked at Kevin questioningly
“I have one maybe he’s going to call me back soon
She turned back to Liz “Tell me you made out ok”
Liz smiled and held out a brown paper bag to her. Kate took it and fished out a large rubber facemask. “Holly shit, ya that'll work, its f***ing terrifying”
“wasn’t f***ing cheap either”
They went into the kitchen when Kevin’s phone rang. Liz and Kate watched silently. Kevin put down the phone and shook his head.

“Ok we have no other option” Kate turned to Kevin and placed one hand on each shoulder “Kevin we NEED You to fill in for mike” Liz and I are too small for the costume I tried while you where lighting, and I’m the bigger of the two of us.
“You sure? My hair isn’t right”

Kate cut him off “That’s such a small concern right now its not even relevant in the slightest.” She hesitated “Please”

Kevin considered only long enough to decide he wasn’t going to screw the two of them over. “Ya ok, I suppose where sorta out of options”
Liz and Kate both let out a deep breath. “Thank you” Liz said even giving a little curtsy with her hands clasped in front of her.
Amanda Arrived about 5minutes after that and Liz went with her to start going over the scene.
Kate took Kevin aside and gave him a pair of white cotton pants and a white Tshirt to change into.
Kevin went into the bathroom and removed his jeans and shirt, slipping on the clothes Kate had provided. The pants where a bit too big for him and he had to hold them to keep them from falling down a bit too far. He left the bathroom and went to find Kate.

“Hey pants are a bit too big and there’s no loops for a belt. Do you guys have a sewing kit to cinch them up?”

“Liz does” Kate led him to find Liz as she was the one with sewing experience. “Hey Liz can you tighten up the pants?
She turned how bad are they? Looking “there not that bad they look fine,”

“Ya but they fall down”

“The jacket actually has a strap that goes between your legs , so that will hold them up.”

“Awkward,” Kate mumbled giving Kevin a shrug.

Liz came with them to the living room as Amanda went to change into her costume.

Liz went to a duffle bag filled with set dressings and props and rummaged around “Here it is” Liz said extracting what looked like a sheet of canvas covered in straps. She held it out and the jacket shape became more apparent tho it was still unlike any jacket Kevin had laid eyes on, let alone worn.

“Ok Kevin wana stick your arms out?” Kevin gestured that he was still holding up the pants Kate moved in to assist.

“Here I’ve got them” taking hold of the pants and holding them up for Kevin so he could free his arms up.

Liz held the jacket out and Kevin turned around to slip his arms in like he would any other jacket but Liz pulled it away laughing.

“Other way lol”

“What?”

“You put it on backwards, so the straps are behind you.”

When Kevin made no sign of moving Liz moved around to the front side of him, dogging Kate who was still holding his pants.

“Here stick you arms strait out”

Kevin did as instructed sticking his arms out straight in front of him like a zombie from an 80s horror film and Liz slipped the jacket over his outstretched arms. The canvas was vary heavy and scratchy against the bare skin of his arms. Liz then moved around switching places with Kate again. And then began doing up the buckles in the back. She started at the top and worked her way down from buckle to buckle. As each buckle was pulled tight Kevin felt the canvas tighten around him, drawing itself inward. Finally Liz finished at the back and leaned around to the front of Kevin to grab the strap hanging from the fount of the jacket,

“sorry about this” she said blushing a bit. With that Liz passed the strap between Kevin’s legs and buckled it in the back pulling it tight slowly but tight non the less. AS this strap was drawn tight it pulled the shoulders of the jacket down and caused the sensation of being wrapped in a kind of cocoon to increase significantly.

Kevin tried moving around a bit and experimented with shrugging, which he regretted as it tighten the strap between his legs when his shoulders pressed up on the jacket. At this point Amanda called that she was ready to do a trial run and they headed downstairs to where the set had been setup.

The set consisted of a plain room with white walls that had been hung with old ratty sheets to give the impression of an abandoned hospital. There was a table covered in evil looking props and next to it a bare mattress covered in straps. Kevin sat down on the bed and Liz had him slip his arms through the loops on the front of the jacket then moving around behind him.

“Ok so once I do these up it stands to reason you wont really be able to move, so just let me know if you need out for a few minutes to stretch or something, as long as its not during a take obviously.” With that Liz pulled the ends of the sleeves together to tightly secure them in place. She then helped Kevin lay down on the bed and pulled him up a bit by the jacket, which he did not appreciate due to the pressure, it put on the strap between his legs, to get him into place over the straps on the bed. There were a number of said straps on the bed, two down by his legs that ran tightly over the bed, four loose ends above those and another tight one around the bed at neck level. Liz positioned him with his neck on what felt like a sort of cuff, sewn to this strap.

“Should we bother with the blind fold and such for this?” she asked Kate

“Ahhh I don’t think so its just a trial run” “unless it would help you Amanda?”

Amanda had been reading lines “What sorry?”

“Would it help you if we went full costume blind fold and such?”

“Ahh ya I suppose a bit it would, yes”

“Ok then” Said Liz “Bed straps too?”

“Might as well, I guess”

Liz turned back to Kevin who was starting to question his decision to “help out” and set about getting the straps on the bed secured around his body. The first set of straps connected to D rings on the shoulders and each side of the waist of the jacket, they attached with small clips. Liz pulled them each tight, holding the jacket in position on the bed. The next strap went under Kevin’s ankles and had two small ankle cuffs sewn to it. Liz took each of Kevin’s feet in turn and placed it on the open cuff before buckling them one at a time, then she moved up to the next strap which ran in a similar way under his thighs, this one also had a pair of cuffs though larger. Liz pulled the straps around Kevin’s thighs, causing him to stir a bit in the process.

“Sorry” she blushed and let out a small laugh

Finally Liz moved up to the final strap, which ran in the same way as the last two but had a cuff positioned under Kevin’s neck. Like the others she fastened this one by pulling the two haves of the cuff around Kevin’s neck and buckling them together snuggly, though she took extra care in making sure this one wasn’t too tight.

“Is that ok?” She asked feeling the space around Kevin’s bare neck and the rigid fabric collar.

“Fine” was the best response Kevin could muster, though he had to admit to himself, being strapped into this by Liz was a bit of a dream come true, he was actually enjoying it a fair bit, despite the embarrassment.

Liz sensed was she took for unease and gave him a smile and a kiss on the check.

“Sorry, I cant resist a helpless man” Jokingly, maybe.

Liz retrieved the facemask from the bag beside the bed and set about trying to figure out how it went on. She held it out and shook the straps loose. The thing consisted of a large peace of black leather that looked as though it would cover the entire face with a thick blindfold part that clearly went over the eyes and a large number of straps. After a few failed attempts at pacing it over Kevin’s head Kate realized they had it backwards.

“I think it goes the other way”

“What how?”

“Like I think that big leather thing goes in his mouth, cus that part looks like it goes over his eyes and the straps go that way” She gestured with her hand illustrated as she described it.

Liz still didn’t understand and handed the thing to Kate who proceeded to turn it around. “Kevin would you open your mouth?”

Kevin complied, though not without reservations, and Kate proceeded to stick the thick leach part into it so that the blindfold part lined up with his eyes and the straps went round to the back. From this point on Kevin couldn’t really tell what was happening, other than that someone was holding his head up as high as it would go, given the strap around his neck, and that there was a lot of pulling and tugging happening behind his head. The leather hunk in his mouth filled it completely and just as he was making up his mind to spit it out he felt in drawn in more as the mask was pulled tightly over his face, a moment later a second strap under his chip was pulled tight and forced his jaw closed on the leather. The hood now wrapped his face completely, cutting off not just his sight and ability to talk, but almost all sound as well. The thing must have some kind of earmuffs. Unknown to him Liz was asking him to wriggle around for the scene and “get into character” so when he started wriggling and making mummmphing noises into his gag he couldn’t understand why no one would let him out. And he also couldn’t hear Liz tell him to make three long grunts if he wanted out at all, though she didn’t know that of course.
Any other lifejacket/five point harness/safety gear fans out there? Shoot me a message!

Re: Liz and her crazy film

Postby hujikelmop » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:26 am

Cool

Re: Liz and her crazy film

Postby whomewhy » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:02 pm

Loving the direction this is going - the element of photography adds a new dynamic to the narrative.

Re: Liz and her crazy film

Postby Jack Roper » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:11 pm

Great story--it goes from sweet innocence to a real predicament for poor Kevin.

Re: Liz and her crazy film

Postby CHillDice » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:22 pm

Loving it so far, keep up the good work!!!
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Re: Liz and her crazy film

Postby thedarkdefender » Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:35 am

Interesting start. Sounds promising :)