A Sexiest® (and sensual!) Movie Premiere: 'Sensual Desires'

This might be the longest post I ever wrote...and it would be that just if I stick to transcribe the credits from this massive project that took our community by storm this spring! So before you get bored...I mean, before you get deeper into the article, I am telling you that the movie premiere will take place at 7:30 PM this Friday 14th!

So, which movie are we talking about today? We're dealing with the first movie from Stachel Studios. The director is Rachel Avro, a virgin in this particular role, but so vastly experienced in front of a camera as multiple time award winning actress and who already produced, assisted, wrote effectively co-directed several flicks in the past. This movie is a wonderful collaboration and labor of love between herself and her wife Stacey Lucciano, who we all know for her energy, passion and creativity.
I think it's already time to leave you to the interview I did with them, and to the massive credits of the movie: I can't stress enough in particular the excellent voice work done by Athena Mariposa, Moonie Mouse, Seddy Constantine and Vixxen Clowes, together with the narration of the legend that is Larry Vinaver. Enjoy!

- First question to a debutante always is: why did you decide to get into the filmaking business ?

Rachel: I decided to get into filmmaking as I though it was a natural progression for my photography; being the assistant of Mitzy Broadway I got to watch the process and was involved in it. The likes of Mitzy, Isa, Dillon and other film directors inspired me.

- The story of this movie...has an interesting story behind it, in itself! How did the major theme for this movie come about?

Stacey: Rachel originally wanted just to do a bunch of sex scenes with valley girls! I started then asking "Well why is this happening, and why is that happening?" So I kinda made her think about the scenes a bit more and write dialogue that flows as there is MUCH more of this story to unfurl over the next two movies if we find people like this one. We are both Subs. I sometimes swap for her but the S&M kink always caught my fancy so I think there is an attachment to that lifestyle a bit as we both live it in Second Life.

Rachel: I have been thinking about a D themed movie for a while. Having Stacey as my partner and wife and bouncing ideas off her it started to come together. We talked alot about it and slowly ideas came about and the movie started to take shape. The funny thing is the movie was a flowing process and was changing all the time.
Stacey: To sum it up for the audience, it's about two lesbian lovers that feel they need a little somthing else in their relationship as it was growing stale, so my character calls up her former Mistress and uses that crutch to fall back on to bring some life back to their sex life and they start to fall down that rabbit hole...

- What was the first step in order to begin the movie? Can you remember 'the first day of shooting' ? Which scene did you start with and how did it go?

Rachel: I remember the movie was going to be called "Sunset Lovers" and I filmed the start on the sim island with a sunset, filming myself walking out to masturbate on the beach. Was going to be 7 minutes long...the whole sunset shots ended up on the cutting room floor.

- Typical! As you mentioned, you have experience as both an actresss and as an assistant director, but getting to try and be behind the camera yourself is still a steep transition. Which parts did you find  the hardest?

Rachel: The hardest for me is staying focused on a direction. Stacey was invalubale with keeping me on track as I ideas were all over the place.
Stacey: Well I tried! When she wanted to go off on tangents I reigned her back in to keep it simple and keep it on track, and to try to keep the movie flowing well. Made her move a few scenes to make it make more sense

Rache: If I was going to do this right I needed to learn editing, so i watched 100 hours of youtube videos about the editing tools, I watched scenes of movies i loved with the attention to detail on how they were cut...Also watched some of Mitzy movies over again so that started to become natural to me. And I started to incorporate my style of photography in it: you will see in the movie the closeup shots and intimacy I usually get on camera.

- Yes, for sure it shows. So let's get again more into the evolution of the idea. From the basic "Sunset Lovers" concept, how did we get to where the movie is? 

Rachel: The story developed a lot because Stacey thought it should be more than just sex scenes. We developed the storyline together about Faith being her ex Mistress and it was her orgy, then we liked the idea of a neighbour involved, which was you. And we thought about Faith having a sub and that was Partee and.... I wanted things that joined the movie together that were sex scenes. One thing though I did want was to have pornstar voice overs in this film. It would nmake it something different. I started with Athena and was going to use her for all the voices but they would be too similar, so ended up with 4 of the girls and one male narator. You and Stacey were a big help in the voice scenes I did.

Stacey: Rachel was pretty instrumental in the concept and film direction. She did so much better than I ever thought she would being a first time director. When she said she wanted to do a movie I was like "ok!"... but had no real expectations of it being a serious project. She dove in head first and seeing her excitement over it made me realize "She is serious! We need to put real effort into it!".
Then it just grew and grew to 40 pornstars. Originally it was gonna be Rachel, me, you, Partee and faith. Then it went to.... "Ok we need extras for some shot..." to a full blown picture, and Rachel really did great. I helped more in the case of lines and story but the camera shots were all her.  she had a vision and as the story progressed in our heads she took the ball and ran with our ideas. I think she killed it. In a good way obviously!

- You added scenes , such as the orgy shot at Maui's, to the original beach atmosphere....but also a very different change of pace and setting around the middle of the movie. Which still is coherent with the basic premise. Tell me more about these 'additions' that make the movie what it is now.

Rachel: Well, I did want a orgy scene in the movie and wasn't sure where I was going to shoot that. Maui came about because I asked Bandor to sponsor the movie with his furniture and he mentioned that Maui might be a nice place to film. I asked Renni, she was a friend. That was how the orgy scene developed at Maui.

- Do you want to tell us more about your collaboration with Aquilae in terms of locations, and working on a very special dance sequence there? It was an ambitious scene and i remember the actors being impressed as it was happening, even.

Rachel: The dance scenes and the dungeon scenes were to be part of a "coming soon" feature in kinda a take on the how the Marvel movies put scenes in the middle of the credits. After talking with Stacey about it, the flow was better placing them towards the end of the film. Heather was kind enough to let me use her dungeon and castle for those scenes. I had looked at several movies with masquerade balls in them and so that is how they were shot .

So I asked Sasha Johansen to make a scene with couples walking down the stairs and dancing. I then added in the masks of several of the actors: they were all so creative. I got some other dance sequences and filmed several couple around the castle. It really made the film so much better as a movie. I remeber you watching it and saying it also flowed better when we changed the end.

- You chose to do not many have done before, real voice acting. How was it working with Athena, Vixx, Seddy, Moonie and Larry, and how difficult was it to make it all work? Did it require many different takes on their part? And also, you did in fact a lot of work on sound editing which was also a big part of the revisions this movie went through. It's often a forgotten part of the craft. I know you may want to talk some about your music choices.

Rachel: They were all so great to work with and they were very accomodating with their time. I didnt need to ask them to do it other and they did that themselves. I something got three takes as they thought they could do better. Yes, sound editing was very important and I got advice for Mitzy and Hailey on that I actually improved the voice overs and was able to make all of them stereo .

The sound selection took a lot of time for one, they are all royalty free and common music to be used for no commercial projects. So went you are watching the movie listen to the music each song has a direct impact on the scene i shot. I also needed to learn sound editing as well and I am still in the learning process for that.
An interesting story: when I asked Larry to be the narrator of the film he sent me his voice and voices he could do: Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness and after Stacey and I listened, we both picked Larry's own voice for the movie.

- You have several 'Technical advisors' listed in the credits, from miss Kiki to Brunella, Laura, etcetera. Do you want to tell me more about their role and involvement?

Rachel: They are all people that helped with dialogue  and I bounced thing off of to make it a better experience. I am not they greastest in writing dialogue so it flows properly I know they direction and what I want and they would help with the proper grammar and saying what i meant.
Mitzy was a wonderful mentor to me in so many ways.
One thing I waned to stress, is that that we used 43 actors in this movie  4 voiceovers, 1 narator and 15 songs so what started as a small first time movie as a director, morphed into something very large.

- So, the last obligatory question: you already gave us a hint but, what's next for your studio? Tell me your plans for your next movie if there are any already, you in general, etc.

Rache: We are in development of a sequel to this movie . We are going to explore the couples sinking deeper into submission and flesh out some of the characters we had in the movie and maybe add a new character involved with more voice overs and Larry contiuned narration.
Stacey: I will save the future story as I don't wanna spoil where it is going, but there is going to be more of how deep that rabbit hole goes, and what it does to the lovers and people around them.

And that's it for the interview!
Needless to say, I am really looking forward to it! I urge you to come over at 7:30 PM Friday to get to the premiere, with party to follow at 8 PM with Hailey as DJ! It's gonna be a really memorable event for a movie unlike any other in this feeling of being crowning of a career as a student of the game, a force behind the scenes and an universally loved person who brought together so many individuals to assist and be part of her vision. This movie showcases a lof of the good that there is in this community, and if you were not part of it, you'll still want to come over and take part to this celebration and perhaps being able to be part of the evolution of this project.

Sensual Desires 

A Rachel Avro Film
From Stachel Studios
Directed by Rachel Avro
Screenplay by Rachel Avro & Stacey Lucciano

Starring

Rachel Avro
Stacey Lucciano
Katina Cazalet
Partee Mytili
Faith Darrow

Mitzy Broadway
Renni
Anyka Aiseiri
Sasha Johansen
Kaylai Cucco
Vicki Concertina
Hailey Redrose
Zuby Gloom Redrose
Tricia Danielson
Vixxen Clowes
Monique LeFry

Moonie Mouse
Seddy Constantine
Whimsical Aristocrat
Heather Ashford
Isa Cheviot
Debi Whitfield
Escy Asadar
Kara Hawk
Kiki CC Blackwood

Alexandria Topaz
Ali Lancrae
Ayara Illios
Nakuru Bergamasco
Larry Vinaver
Candy Kane
Tour Diddy
Arienne Evangeline
Athena Mariposa

Daimaju Clowes
Scottie Leigh
Enki
Daxie
Lesley Aristocrat
Maximus Morningstar
Kelli Kristan
Grim Skall
Cream Release

Executive Producers
Stacey Lucciano

Sound mixing by
Rachel Avro

Coreographer
Sasha Johansen

Music
Break Through
Keeping our love alive
Art of love making
Curious
Only You
Break free the stranglehold
I'm trouble

Tied up
Be your slave
Don't hate me
Ofeliasdream from Bensound.com
Skyabin etude Op8 No12
Evolution from Bensound.com
Sexy from Bensound.com
Like we did before-

Voice over
Athena Mariposa
Vixxen Clowes
Moonie Mouse
Seddy Constantine

Narrator
Larry Vinaver

Filmed on location at
Maui Resort
StachelLands
Aquilae
Lust

Props provided by
Debauchery Adult Furniture

Set design
Rachel Avro
Stacey Lucciano
Partee Mytili

Thanks to Renni for all the help on location

Shot, Cropped and Scored by
Rachel Avro

Technical Advisors
Kiki CC Blackwood
Brunella Voelisa
Laura Richards
Stacey Lucciano
Katina Cazalet
Hailey Redrose

With Special Thanks to Mitzy Broadway

A Dirty Girl Production

Wanna watch the movie? Here it is, after the jump!

Wanna Flick? Maid in the City 2 Episode 2!

I didn't cover on The Sexiest blog Maid in the city 2: Episode 2 at the time of the release, but what a massive and satisfying release that was!

As usual, there's little I can add to what Sere already put in her own blog post on the Erotique blog. Complete with incredibly sexy, top quality screenshots

Incredibly sexy, top quality screenshots here!

Well, I still grab some too, of course, I always do it when watching a movie.

Rache grabs some.

I am sure you will enjoy the movie: in true Erotique fashion, it's very tongue in cheek and playful. A few times in the past as she mentions on the blog post, Sere ended up editing the sex scenes of her movies with the pacing and overall flow of the plot in mind, and then those scenes got a separate release in their fullness as all-sex flicks. It happened with SL porn 'classics' such as Love Juice, and Vibrations in Time, to the latest Star Wars parody, where 'Encounter on Tatooine' had as spinoffs of sorts 'Return to Jabba's Palace' and 'Return to the Cantina'.

Just in case you hadn't seen enough Star Wars stuff on this blog lately!

One choice I always got behind of (mmm...), but with this movie being a two-parter with such a varied cast and different scenes, I think she got the ingredients to the recipe mixed very well. The movie ends up being a very hot mix of titillating scenarios. So, have a good time checking some out through the snapshots as i present to you a short Q&A I had with Sere and with the star and executive producer of this hot work, Rachel Avro!

Also, I said "Tongue in cheek" two paragraphs ago, and I couldn't just let it slide without linking this.

- Rache, did you enjoy being Executive Producer in the movie and would you like to tell us more about your involvement in this movie, how did it all start etc?

Rache: I really enjoyed working with Sere and Louise behind the scenes as well in front of the camera. It started with an idea I have with the first movie I want do a movie sort of like Emmanuelle: the adventures of a girl's sexual awaking, and we did that one. So about 5 months ago I came to Sere and Louise with the idea for a sequel and we worked on it and refined it.

- How long did it take for the movie to be completed?

Serenity: It was quite a while, because the planning began way back before the Erotique Star Wars movie was finished at the end of 2014. I wanted a little break after that movie. So, with scheduling of the cast and building sets for every scene it took about 3 months. Nobody was rushing though or working flat out. it was produced at a nice pace, that felt like a fun project.

- What is your favourite scene, or scenes, if any?

Serenity: I liked them all because this is only my second movie where i shot all the girls in mesh bodies, and i'm still wowed how good they look on screen. I really enjoyed the scene with Charles and Rachel though, because it was one i could never have hoped to have shot without my new PC. Lovely wind light settings, shadows, and the sea in shot on the beach. 

Rache: My favourite scene was with Lune as she was in the first movie and I thing that was the hottest scene I have ever done and it was nice to reconnect!

Above: Rache connected to Lunedor through various interfaces.

- Any particular anedocte about the production, something funny during shooting, or any adversity that happened and we as viewers wouldn't know about?

Rache: Yes there was adversity there was a wonderful scene with my partner that had to be cut because of her not being able to be on SL 

Serenity: I shot a ton of video for the auction house in the movie, which i used to set the story in Part one. When i came to edit part two i had accidently deleted it! Luckily i had just enough left to make Part two work. 

And the stream lining of that part of the movie i think allowed it to move along at a good fast pace any way, and i was able to include that fun finale scene with Ali and Partee in more focus due to it. So alls well that ends well!

- What's next for Erotique?

Serenity: Myself and Louise have a ton of ideas, for photos, movies, comics. Louise has a great imagination and we work well together and enjoy it. We plan things all the time, spur of the moment shoots, or larger concepts. 

 Plus Star Wars Part 2 will happen also, but i have done 3 big movies in what's quite a short space of time for me, with all the other things i have going on too. So i would like to do a few smaller scale, simpler projects for a little bit. 

Star Wars is just going to be huge this year, and get more inspiring as the months go by, so i think putting it off a little while will only see me more excited about it and more ready to jump into it as time goes by.

- And you, Rache?

 Rache: Right now no new projects. I hopefully will be being some new shoot and be invited to some upcoming movies project that are in the works.

And I am sure she will! She looks great in this, and we all know how she can bring a lot to her projects. Here's her ad in the movie,

....and below, the ad and logo for Warmanimations Lisa, once again being a helping hand for moviemakers in SL!



Also, I said 'helping hand' and i needed to post this.

And now, come on, we're just missing the movie itself, right? it's after the jump! and remember, again, to visit Sere's blog for more mouthwatering screen captures and more info!

The Sexiest® Photo And Pornstar Of The Day : Nov 3

The Sexiest® Photo Of The Day

Four. By Casha Fall. Casha has to be one of the sexiest models, and one of the very best producers of her own pics around on the scene right now. Every one delivers a superb and extremely hot view! Congrats you're our 'Sexiest® Of The Day'!


The Sexiest® Pornstars Of The Day

The Morning Cupboard. By Partee. Featuring herself and Rachel Avro. Love this sexy sunset scene. featuring two of our Pornstars spending some intimate, quality time together, and luckily capturing it for us to see! Congrats girls you're our 'Sexiest® Pornstars Of The Day'!