Yesterday we got a nice mention at Fleshbot.com. Well not actual us, but we were mentioned in a post about an absolutely ravenous bunch of women fans of Damon and Hunter; both the real life couple in our movie of the same.

With the holidays and other minor chaos, the high definition transfer I mentioned earlier got pushed back to next week, so in the between time, Mrs.C and I have been working on a Making Of/Behind the Scenes featurette that is as unprecedented as shooting gay sex on film and mastering on HD.

We’re known for our two camera approach to shooting sex scenes, but during the filming of Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together there were in fact three cameras used: Mine (an Eclair ACL Super16 film camera), Peggy’s (another Eclair ACL Super16 film camera), and video camera that runs continuously throughout the entire scene. (You’ve already seen a bit of footage from this third camera in the humorous Mag. Change clip in last months Teamwork, Part 2.)

What we’re doing on this Making Of/Behind the Scenes is presenting each of these cameras, running sycronously through the multi-angle function that DVDs have.

The first camera angle will be footage from the video camera, with the footage from each film camera inset into each corner:

The second camera angle is the footage from my camera:

And the third camera angle is the footage from Peggy’s camera:

By using the ANGLE button on your DVD remote, you’ll be able to switch between these three angle as the DVD plays. There will be two audio tracks, one that’s just the audio we recorded during the scene, and a second track featuring commentary from me and my wife.

Watch just the two film camera angles with the scene sound track, and it’s like editing the scene yourself. Listen to our audio commentary track and switch between all three camera angles and you’ll get a peek inside our process, how we decide who will shoot what, how we “seen” inside each other’s head while we’re shooting, and how we (try to) cover each other’s mistakes, along with insights and background stories about the film!

Of course this is just a bonus feature. The main event is still the film, and what a fine film it’s turned into! Damon and Hunter marks the realization of a long-held ambition for me and Peggy; to capture real sex and real love between two very real men, and we couldn’t be more excited about it!

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