Last weekend Messymayhem towers was open
for business to do three new shoots. This is the story of those shoots and the
events leading up to them....
The week running into the shoots was
going well. The supplies had been bought, the gunge had arrived from Dunk Tank
Dave and I’d even withdrawn enough cash to pay the girls. Only one model had
cancelled and a replacement for her had been found. I was so organised I had
even pre-cut the bin bags dresses ready. Things were going well...too well!
On
Tuesday night at approximately 4am I was woken by the noise of a circular saw.
After ignoring it for a time I got up to investigate. I discovered that there
was a digger at the bottom of the drive slowly excavating the pavement outside
my house. The water main had burst. I returned to bed but couldn’t sleep, not
just because of the horrendous noise of the machinery but my brain was racing.
Would the water be back on in time for the shoots? If it wasn’t there was no
way they could happen. Even if it was would they still be doing repairs on the
road? If so we could never expect to shoot with all the background noise.
Things were not looking good, however they got worse...
When I got up
for work to no water after only four hours sleep and a digger working away
outside I heard an alarm...upon further investigation it turned out that the
fridge freezer had packed up. I was forced to empty it an entrust all my cold
food to next door for safe keeping until a solution could be sorted. I was then
off to work, tired worried and wondering where to start. Part of me started to
think the best idea may be just to cancel the shoots. I can’t have been
functioning very well so decided not to make any rash decisions and decided
instead that I should never have children as on this evidence the sleep
deprivation would undoubtedly kill me!
Then things
took a turn for the better. I managed to contact the water company whilst I was
at work and had it confirmed that water was again flowing (from taps) at home
and they didn’t think it would go off again over the weekend. This gave me hope
and banished the thought of cancelling the shoots. When I got home I set about
the fridge freezer problem. If I didn’t get that sorted then there would be no
tea or cheese on toast for the shoots and that would mean a cranky Annabelle! I
first contacted the manufacturer who told me it was no longer under warranty
and they wanted £249 to come and fix it. Even worse they couldn’t get anyone to
me for over a week. The man I spoke to was clearly a moron, he told me the food
would be find as long as I kept the door shut. The fact was that inside the
freezer was approaching room temperature and also what is the point of a fridge
freezer if you can’t open the door to get stuff out or put it in? I elected to
buy a new one, Tesco direct was my saviour. New fridge freezer £189 including
delivery and they could get it to me for Friday. This was the day of the first
shoot. Admittedly it would be a pain if it arrived whilst we were shooting but
I decided it was a risk worth taking.
On my return
from work on Thursday there was more good news. The pavement outside that has
been dug up still when I left for work had been filled in and resurfaced. This
dispelled my fears that we might have roadworks outside making a hell of a din
as we tried to shoot. The WAM gods (or at least some luck) were with me. With
vigour I began the process of setting up, moving furniture, getting out the paraphernalia
of Messy Mayhem, buckets, gunge powder, inflatable bondage chair, tarp, lights,
tripods and our old friend the squeegee! I got text confirmation from both
models saying they would be in attendance for the shoot the next day and one
from Annabelle saying she was coming too. I made good progress on the setup.
Against the odds somewhat it looked like we were on! This was the scene that
greeted me on Wednesday morning.
I got woken
by a text in the morning, it wasn’t good news. Annabelle was suffering from a
migraine and was going to have to take things east. She was still coming but
plans to do an extra video with her friend Annie would have to be shelved. I
was just dozing off again slightly concerned when I got another text. My heart
sank, I felt sure this was going to be Annabelle saying now she couldn’t make
it at all. It wasn’t however it was Tesco Direct confirming the new fridge
freezer was going to be delivered between 10-11am. This was good as it didn’t
clash with the shoot. I got up and set about work on the tarping. The fridge
freezer arrived and was plugged in. Then a slightly weak an wobbly Annabelle
turned up. However after a bit of cheese on toast and ribena she perked up a
bit and set about mixing the gunge. She is somewhat of an expert at that now
and it came together wonderfully. We had a relaxed setup as the girls had got
stuck in a traffic jam and were running twenty minutes late. It felt strange
having everything ready and waiting, especially after the chaos of the previous
days. I couldn’t settle, I was just waiting for something else to go wrong.
This got me told off by Annabelle and fortunately nothing more did go wrong.
Soon enough
the girls arrived. They were Annie a cute girl with tattoos and red ends to her
hair, she’s from Manchester and is a friend of Annabelle’s. Also Ezi a tall,
loud and shapely Geordie a friend of Annie’s who she called when the other
model I had booked cancelled two weeks before. Ezi was so keen to do the shoot
she had got up at 4am to travel down from Newcastle for it. She had tweeted
that she was stood at the coach station in her tracksuit eating Nutella from
the jar, she was clearly a nutter but a totally loveable one.We got on instantly and the banter between the
two girls was great. There were lot of giggles not just from the girls but from
Annabelle, myself and Annie’s boy friend off camera as well. At one point we
were laughing so much at something Ezi said we had to stop filming for a
minute. When it came to getting gunged there was no messing about, the girls
had no worries about getting totally covered or covering each other for that
matter! It was a great shoot, very funny with an unexpected ending to one of
the videos. Annabelle did brilliantly considering she was feeling under the
weather. When we were done the girls got clean and got going both saying they’d
had a great time and would love to come back Annabelle helped me get the gunge
down the loo and washed the buckets, then she got off to recuperate at home. I
finished off the clean up and ordered some pizza. The most amazing calzone was
delivered and I tucked in. I love my local pizza takeaway, cheaper and tastier
than Dominoes any day! Things had gone well, I was content and happy. Now enjoy
some photos from the shoot, some of which you will have seen if you were
following our live twitter feed from the shoots.
Next morning
I was up bright and early. The tarping and the background went up with little
hassle. Annabelle text me to say she still had her migraine but would still be
coming. I also had a text from the models who were travelling together to say
they were underway. I set about making some pies from custard, shaving foam and
dream topping. Things were set for another good days shooting but it didn’t
quit e go to plan.
The models
were Sophie, a gorgeous brunette who had the week before shot with
Messy-Jessie.com and a rather special mystery guest who I have wanted to work
with for a while now. Her identity will be revealed at a later date. We got
going but it soon became clear that Sophie had a bit of an attitude problem. Whereas
the day before everything had been very light hearted both when we were
shooting and between videos, now things were decidedly more tense. At first
Sophie was just a bit snappy and dismissive in conversation between videos.
However she then got gunge in her eye and we still had some videos to do. I
agreed with her that she could avoid getting messy for the next couple but she
would still need to get messy for our final game which was Extreme Rock Paper
Scissors. As regular viewers will know it is sometimes necessary for me to
adjudicate during this game. This case was no different as our special guest
managed to lose four rounds in a row. She went on to appear to lose the next so
I decided to step in an adjudicated that Sophie had not afterall played rock,
she had in fact played a screwed up piece of paper. This has happened on many
previous shoots, the models tend to laugh it off or moan but in a banteresque
way. In this case neither happened Sophie just refused to shoot anymore and
stropped off set! I have never had anything like it. Myself, Annabelle and our
mystery guest were left in shock. Luckily our mystery guest was a great sport
and allowed me to tip a load of gunge over her as an ending to the video. I
felt sorry for her as well as she would have to share a car home with sulky
Sophie! I called her later to apologise and invited her back to shoot again in
future, hopefully with a more fun and easy going model. We were just lucky to
have her otherwise the shoot would have been a total disaster, she was a little
star and I’m sure you guys are going to love her.
I reflected
as I tucked into my Indian takeaway,
reward to myself after the clean up. The video footage we had got from
the day was good. Our mystery guest had exceeded all expectations and been
totally fantastic. However the main reason I do Messy Mayhem is to have fun.
Sulky Sophie and her stinking attitude had sucked some of the fun out of the
days shooting. I’m not sure if she was in a bad mood or if she hated getting
messy or maybe she just was offended by my shirt. What her problem was I don’t
know. Rather than a feeling of contentment I had the night before I was left
with a feeling of relief somewhat that it was over. However I was determined
one bad model wasn’t going to ruin the weekend. Tomorrow would be better and at
least I could take pleasure in looking at the photos of Sophie and know that
she hated every minute of it. I invite you to do the same!
After the
previous day I had high hopes for out third shoot of the weekend. The models
were the gorgeous busty Michelle who was
have shot many times before. Joining her was another special mystery guest who
I was very excited about just meeting never mind to be shooting with! The stage
was set for a great shoot and it didn’t disappoint!
The relaxed
and fun atmosphere was instantly back as soon as our special guest arrived.
Michelle was slightly late despite living ten minutes away and also forgot the
house number despite having been here three times previously! She took some
teasing from me for that, then we were off! It was great both girls were
totally up for it and we had amazing fun. The Friday shoot had been good but I
think it’s safe to say this was one of the best shoots we’ve ever done for the
site. It was over far too quickly. The only slight problem we had was there was
a slight misunderstanding with Michelle and she went to leave before we had
done the final video but she was only too happy to get back in the pool and d
one more. We finished off and then the long process of cleaning up and getting
the house back to normal began.
That night I fell into bed with a smile on my
face. The shoots had happened somewhat against the odds! Two of them had been
triumphs. Lots of fun had been had and I had sixteen new videos to put up on
the site. It only remains for me to thank the utterly fantastic Annabelle for
soldiering on despite not feeling too good and still being brilliant. Also a
big thank you to all of the models (apart from the obvious!). They were all
gorgeous and great sports. The identities of our special mystery guests will be
revealed in good time. Thanks to Dunk Tank Dave for supplying some very fine
gunge. Finally thanks to everyone who followed us on twitter and sent us
messages of encouragement. If you like what we do then please pop over to the
download stores and consider buying something. It will help me fix the rather
large hole left in my bank account and enable us to do more Messy Mayhem.
Thanks for reading and look out for the new videos soon. I leave you with the
photos from our final shoot.
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