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Well, it was cutting it a bit close, but I’ve finally finished the trailer for Amelia’s Sunday Spanking, so the site will be ready for tomorrow’s official launch day (which is also the 10th Anniversary of Restrained Elegance). Whoop!

 

With the first two Elegance Studios films out the door and ready to release, our thoughts are now turning to new productions. We have a week-long shoot booked at a splendid country house location in a couple of months’ time, and since it is a house we’ve shot at before, we’re thinking of shooting one or two feature-length Elegance Studios videos along with some shorter Restrained Elegance videos and photosets.

 

Front runners thus far are a haunted house ghost story with lots of sexy girls menaced by the ghosts (which Ariel has been working on) and a three-girl slave auction showing the girls’ path from freedom to sexual slavery (which Hywel is developing). Steve’s also got his writer’s hat on and is thinking about what to develop after that. We’re also thinking about what our next spanking project should be.

 

So don’t be shy- post a comment and let us know what you think of our first two films, and what storylines and fantasies you’d like to see us tackle for our next feature film production!

 

So… the cart should be active, the trailers ready, the site live… all we need now is you!

 

Cheers, Hywel

Subtlety

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I’ve been irritated for ages by my habit of not posting on my blog unless I have time to post an essay. This is hardly ever, so I’m having a go (and do bear with me if I fail) at posting shorter posts, more often.

This picture (for Restrained Elegance) is what I want to talk (briefly!) about today, because I really like it. The near-symmetry of the composition, the nudity in a formal-looking environment, and the fact that it’s not awfully clear what’s going on appeals to me (even though it’s a picture of me, which normally guarantees I won’t find it terribly sexy). As time goes on, I find myself less and less keen on images that give you everything on a plate (in particular, sexually explicit shots, although I’m certainly not telling you that you shouldn’t like them) and I find myself getting a great deal of pleasure from the subtler BDSM elements you can sometimes get a glimpse of in mainstream movies. I’ve been watching The Tudors and finding it fabulously hot in the clandestine way I used to, way before I knew about BDSM erotica. The king is allowed to have sex with anyone he chooses! When the ladies curtsey to him, they never seem to actually get up again! All the actresses look like Met-Art stars! (err, even when they’re meant to be 40+, but no matter).
Now, obviously nothing we shoot for Restrained Elegance can afford to be quite so elliptical as mainstream work when it comes to referencing BDSM, but I’m quite keen on the idea of a little subtlety, nevertheless.
Hope you’re all well, and thanks as ever for visiting.
A/a xx

>Progress…

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>HI All,

I’ve added Elegance Studios to our links system, so the site now has some links pages. It is a little clunky at the moment… for various arcane technical reasons, I can either have a webpage with a lot of blank space at the bottom, or a scrollbar in the middle of the web page. I’ve chosen the former. A neater solution may be found eventually!

Surfnet tech have fixed the FTP problem, so I have been able to upload the Amelia’s Sunday Spanking ZIP file containing the DVD version. Acquiesce is encoding now and I will be uploading it in the next few days. Then a little more prettification and thinking about site navigation…

Cheers, Hywel.

>Pure Awesomeness

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>Hi All,

As you may notice, we have a lovely piece of artwork for our front page! I commissioned this from the very talented Morgan Cauthers-Knox, asking her to deliver me something inspired by the style of Mucha… and she has absolutely come up trumps! I really love it!

It may seem weird given that I’ve been running a commercial website for almost a decade, but it still amazes me that it is possible for such a tiny cottage-industry production house like us to get artwork custom-drawn by people with more artistic talent in their little fingers than I have in my whole body.

Cheers, Hywel

>Spoke too soon

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>Sigh. I should have learned by now. Never, ever say something is nearly done. Only say it when it is actually complete and tested and running! Having chirpily asserted that we were on course in my last post, I couldn’t actually upload the first DVD image to the shopping cart. Not sure why- I could upload the MP4 version OK, but the crappy web-based FTP client just baulked at the ZIP file. Maybe it was too big??

Anyway, tech support are looking into it.

I hope it will not delay the launch- I guess we can get started with the MP4s and upload the DVD images when the issues are sorted. Hopefully that will be before launch day, not after!