A while back Cornish let me know that he
wouldn’t be able to make it for our October shoots. This presented two
problems....we use his video camera for the main shots you see on Messymayhem
and my own camera wasn’t going to be up to the job on its own. The other one
being, who was going to host, help mix the gunge, laugh at my jokes and
generally be the other pair of hands that is required on a shoot. Now problem
one was easily rectified with a trip to the shops and the purchase of a new
video camera. Problem two however, I needed someone who knew how our shoots worked,
could talk on camera and who could put up my sense of humour. Now as some of
you will know when models have let us down in the past one lady has come to the
rescue nearly everytime, so much so we call her “our emergency model”. She is a
living legend not only is she gorgeous and reliable she can also put up with
both me and Cornish! What have I got to lose I thought.......and text Annabelle
“How do you fancy hosting Messymayhem for a couple of shoots in October?”
shortly after I got the reply “Yeah, why not!?”. With “emergency model” set to
become “the emergency host” I was sorted. The shoots were go go go......
Cut to Sat evening, the night before the
first shoot and I am huffing, puffing, coughing and swearing. Annabelle was
unable to come and help with the setup due to a family emergency so I was left
on my own trying to rearrange the furniture to get the studio set up though she
assured me she would be here next day bright and early. One major problem I
couldn’t remember where I usually put the telly so it’s out of the way. I knew
Cornish would have known, after much swearing 5 attempts I managed to find the convenient
nook where we usually put it and started to get the tarp down. Slowly but surely
and a roll of gaffa tape later the set started to take shape. Exhausted I
collapsed into bed and set my alarm...
Next morning I was up bright and early
nursing a coffee to wake me up and set to work cutting up bin bags with which
to finish the set. Annabelle arrived demanding tea and toast to compensate for
a lack of sleep. Once consumed she got to work on mixing the gunge which she
enjoyed doing immensely.
The shoot was set to be interesting and I
think I am right in saying this is a first for a WAM site but I could be wrong.
We were set to shoot with a married couple – both of them female! I’m sure some
of you remember Lorna from Episode 5 (if not check out http://messymayhemcom.umd.net/download_info/episode_5_part_2
) well she is married to a lovely girl called Bella and she was very keen to
bring Bella along and show her what she does on her shoots. That is exactly
what happened. A rather excited Lorna and a slightly apprehensive Bella turned
up and we got started. Annabelle did well with the hosting role, talking less
than Jon does (but who could talk more!?) – she actually confessed to me that
she was more nervous about doing the hosting than she is about being gunged. I
won’t detail too much about what went on in the games, I’ll save that surprise
for when we release the videos. I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.
When the girls arrived they looked
something like this.
Later on they looked something like this.
All the while I was snapping photos with a
spare stills camera and Annabelle was rushing off every 5 mins like a woman
possessed keeping our followers on twitter upto date with goings on. One rather
good idea I had was to use some charity bags for binbag dresses. Now this might
not seem very ethical, however I had put these bags out to be collected and the
charity had just not bothered so I was actually saving them going to waste!
Here’s a couple of pics from the twitter feed of Lorna and Bella modelling them.
Now as good as she was at the hosting after
the shoot I discovered Annabelle’s real talent. When it comes to gunge clean up
she is a one woman army! The cleanup was done in record time considering there
was only two of us. With one shoot down Annabelle headed home and Messy JoJo
came over to have pizza and help me do the tarping for the next days shoot.
Next morning due to some hiccups with
trains everything didn’t quite go to plan but in the end everyone got here.
Annabelle was again hosting and modelling we had Eden (not our red haired
friend from Splosh fame but the ebony babe who you may know from her work with
Miss T and Gooeygirls) and Lolly (who had actually got in touch with me asking
to be gunged because it looked fun!). Eden was cool and relaxed, she’d seen it
all before – although I did discover she didn’t know the rules to Rock, Paper,
Scissors which she was rather embarrassed by. We also discovered she has the
perfect laugh for WAM – it’s very, very dirty. Lolly was very excited but
nervous – she soon got over that though. Again I won’t detail exactly what went
on but Eden was very evil to Lolly, she didn’t however reckon on Lolly learning
from example and giving back as good as she got. When they arrived the two of them looked
something like this.
Later on they looked something like this.
After a clean up I was left (knackered) to
reflect on two very good shoots. Although I’m sure Cornish will return
Annabelle did comment that she had enjoyed hosting and Cornish had better watch
his job as she was clearly better than him. Could be interesting next time they
meet and I’m making sure I’m staying out the firing line!
Keep your eyes open for the videos from
these shoots which should hit the download store next year. That’s all for now,
I have to go and edit Episode 20 Part 2, thanks for reading.
Bob
