Doggy Style
At 51 minutes, Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract is still too long, but at least now it’s got the right shape. The 17 minute “love story” is now fully intercut with luscious lovemaking, bringing it up to about 22 minutes, and the balance of the run time is given to an uninterrupted look at their lovemaking.

What remains now is to take a hard, unsentimental look at the whole thing and ruthlessly remove everything extraneous – even if it’s good. My hope is that by the time I’m done, 51 minutes will be more like 45 minutes. This is the part where you have to fall out of love, and imagine yourself as the arms akimbo viewer. If it doesn’t flow, it goes, no matter how nifty it is on its own.
Once that’s done, we’ll lock the video and begin mixing the audio. Shooting in New York City has its own, very frustrating audio challenges, and in a funny way audio is less forgiving than video. But making a film sound good is as important as making it look good.
In the meanwhile, I’d invite you to watch a clip of Xana and Dax showing and telling why doggy style is their favorite position for getting Xana off. Her orgasm is a little subtle, but don’t worry, in this segment she gives a nice play-by-play so you don’t miss it!
Doggy Style (1 min., 5 megs, requires Quicktime)
Enjoy!
-T.C.




















March 23rd, 2005 at 2:25 am
“At 51 minutes, Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract is still too long, but at least now it’s got the right shape. The 17 minute “love story” is now fully intercut with luscious lovemaking, bringing it up to about 22 minutes, and the balance of the run time is given to an uninterrupted look at their lovemaking.”
Okay, how do you know it’s too long TC? What’s the formula?
Cheers,
Ell
March 23rd, 2005 at 2:22 pm
How do I know? Because every time I watch it I see stuff that needs to be taken out!
-T.C.
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:20 pm
Yeah, but how do you know something needs to be taken out?
March 28th, 2005 at 9:48 am
Having seen and enjoyed (oh, how I’ve enjoyed…) the full length preview all I can say is whatever method you’ve come up with to work out what to leave in and what to take out — it’s working very well indeed. The timing, amongst other things is great.
Cheers,
Ell
Can’t wait to see the final cut of X and D and a peek at the other love stories.