I recently downloaded the second Rural Chastisement video from Spanking Online.
In the first film, I arrive at the country house of my conservative relatives, and quickly find myself over Mr Cameron's knee as he demonstrates the consequences of breaking their overly strict household rules.
In the second part of the story, I've been caught using the internet - which is, of course, forbidden - and have been sent upstairs to wait for my punishment. Both these movies were made on the first SOL shoot Mr C and I did together. As the second was the last film of the day, we decided to take advantage of the deep trust of our D/s connection, and raise the CP level a few notches.
It had been a tough day; I was already bruised. I made the mistake of wearing lacy knickers under my skirt, and when he started caning me over my clothes, every stroke made the lace bite into my skin. He hadn't even started counting the strokes yet - he was just "warming me up" - but it hurt far more than I expected. Within a couple of minutes I was crying, and I couldn't bear the thought of the severe caning that was to come. In other circumstances, I might have cut the scene at that point, explained what was happening and asked the top to go easier on me. But Mr C is my Lord: he knows my reactions so well, and I know that I can trust him to read me, to not push me too far, to keep me safe. So I let myself sink deeper into the scenario.
By the time he had me kneeling on the sofa with my forehead pressed into the cushions, I was already in subspace. The 24 strokes that followed were some of the hardest I've ever received on camera. The cane was one of Chopper's which we won at Night of the Cane - thick, stiff, very heavy. I could feel each stroke bruising my already welted flesh. By the end of the scene I'd reached that point of acceptance and helplessness where I was completely in Mr C's hands. My makeup was ruined, my hands were trembling, and when the cameras turned off and he hugged me tightly, I felt that familiar rush of fragility and elation.
We were both looking forward to seeing the film. Of course, the caning doesn't look as hard as it felt - it never does. But watching the chemistry between us recorded on camera is very powerful for me. It makes me very proud of us both :)
The thing is that I'm not convinced by some of the editing choices made in the final cut. It's quite common in spanking films to repeat particularly good strokes from different angles. Say, one shot of the stroke hitting the bum, then an 'instant replay' showing the facial reaction. Many people find that re-showing a single stroke from other angles, sometimes in slow motion, enhances the pleasure of a particular moment.
In this film, though, it just doesn't work for me. For one thing, there aren't any facials in this scene, so the repeats aren't obviously repeats - it took me a while to realise that I wasn't just making uncannily identical noises after every stroke. For another, they repeat almost every stroke. Yes, most of the strokes are very hard. No, that doesn't mean it's okay to disrupt the film by re-showing every single one of them. Mr. C is an accomplished actor and Dominant - he puts a lot of thought into controlling the pace and flow of a scene, whether on camera or off it. And so do I - I may have felt helpless during the filming of this scene, but there's always a part of my brain on autopilot, varying my responses a little, drawing them out, creating a nice pause between each stroke, finding the balance point between kicking and struggling, and keeping my position.
It was already a long, intense scene - the editors didn't need to draw it out any more, they didn't need to 'add' intensity or impact. This film would be even more intense if the viewer was allowed to get lost in the fantasy in the same way I did during shooting. For me, the doubled shots break my suspension of disbelief - I become too aware that I'm watching a movie, it disrupts the power of the scene.
Or perhaps my dislike is pure pride: I did this scene without a single cut, without pausing for a rest or to catch my breath, without any break between strokes other than the ones you see. And once they've added replays from multiple angles, you can no longer tell.
What do you think? When you're watching a spanking fantasy, do you find repeats and instant replays effective, or distracting?
