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LordxxAnonymous

so my film calls for nudity of both male and female characters. I've been digging around online and I can't find nada that actually answers my question:
How do I approach it? How do I make them feel comfortable about it? Is it Legal? or does it require special paperwork?
I'm almost ready to start casting so any help in regards to my questions above would be excellent and probably save me a ton of time!

thanks!
 
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well, it's during a sex scene, I need her covered in blood. it won't exactly reveal genitals or necessarily her nipples. just his buttocks and her breasts. and there's another scene with breasts of the same female character. it's kind of apart of who she is. very open.
I'm not trying to do ANYTHING pornographic whatsoever, I'm definitely going for tasteful. it's a thriller with horror elements ..... or horror with thriller elements. LOL.
 
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true true.. but I'm an artist, I've been drawing, painting, writing and exploring art my whole life. the human form is great Art, beautiful actually.
there's more to it than some guy trying to film naked women. it's just essential to the character, I've arranged the scenes on index cards trying to find a way to not include it but I, and everyone I've shown, including my team, obviously, think it's pretty essential and adds to the aesthetic we're going for.
 
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I'm shooting a film later in the year which involves scantily-clad females, and even a (tasteful!) threesome scene.

Make sure the actors are comfortable, make sure you shoot it tastefully. Keep it a closed set. Topless is very different to full-frontal, and even in sex scenes, you don't need to get everyone 100% completely naked, dependent on your shots..

Do rehearsals, and just have your actors hang out to get comfortable with each other - it will look and feel better for them if they have some kind of rapport rather than trying to 'do it' with someone they've never met before. Don't make crass jokes and keep it professional.

Don't shoot it on the first day, try and shoot it as late as possible in the schedule.
 
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jax_rox said:
I'm shooting a film later in the year which involves scantily-clad females, and even a (tasteful!) threesome scene.

Make sure the actors are comfortable, make sure you shoot it tastefully. Keep it a closed set. Topless is very different to full-frontal, and even in sex scenes, you don't need to get everyone 100% completely naked, dependent on your shots..

Do rehearsals, and just have your actors hang out to get comfortable with each other - it will look and feel better for them if they have some kind of rapport rather than trying to 'do it' with someone they've never met before. Don't make crass jokes and keep it professional.

Don't shoot it on the first day, try and shoot it as late as possible in the schedule.
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yea, another person I know irl told me the same. kinda figured I'd have to do this, especially more so for the chemistry.
trying to steer clear of full frontal ftm. I heard those need to be registered under a 2257 or whatever it's called. not trying to venture off into pr0n land.
 
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LordxxAnonymous said:
well, there's a few scenes within the movie, some feature absolutely no nudity while the one that's the key scene will feature her naked, covered in blood.
ever seen VHS? just picture the Succubus scene.
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Oh yes I sort of remember that scene. I'm just wondering why she has to be naked. I was watching Lethal Weapon 2 the other day, which has a long topless shot in it, and that is considered to be a tasteful movie, so it all depends I guess. As I watching it I was wondering why they were showing boobs though, and what did for the movie.

jax_rox said:
I'm shooting a film later in the year which involves scantily-clad females, and even a (tasteful!) threesome scene.

Make sure the actors are comfortable, make sure you shoot it tastefully. Keep it a closed set. Topless is very different to full-frontal, and even in sex scenes, you don't need to get everyone 100% completely naked, dependent on your shots..

Do rehearsals, and just have your actors hang out to get comfortable with each other - it will look and feel better for them if they have some kind of rapport rather than trying to 'do it' with someone they've never met before. Don't make crass jokes and keep it professional.

Don't shoot it on the first day, try and shoot it as late as possible in the schedule.
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Lol I did a scene shoot a while ago, and we had to shoot a sex scene the first day, cause of of location availability change in the schedule. The actors met but didn't get any real practice yet, and just had to go for it.
 
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Are you paying your actors?

If you're not, personally I think it's unfair to ask them to show your breasts or other private areas... Even if you are paying them, I doubt it's union rates so again I think it's unfair.

Sure, some actors may agree to do so but most would do so because they're very desperate (for those IMDB credits).

Put yourself in their shoes, how would you feel?

As others have suggested you can have a sexy scene without showing 'anything' - that's what I would do. It's better for your movie, and better for your actors.
 
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GuerrillaAngel said:
That's a BAD idea.

Shoot it on the first day. If they refuses, recast immediately.

If you shoot it last, you can bet the farm they WON'T do it and your entire film is held hostage.
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I disagree - if you can't trust your actors, you shouldn't have cast them in the first place. Likewise, it should be spoken about right from the very first casting session. I don't understand why you'd want to put your actors off and get them off-side from the word go, by making them uncomfortable on the first day.

We're not Stanley Kubrick's here..
 
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GuerrillaAngel said:
That's a BAD idea.

Shoot it on the first day. If they refuses, recast immediately.

If you shoot it last, you can bet the farm they WON'T do it and your entire film is held hostage.
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Wasn't this discussed before on the forum? I'm sure a remember a poster saying that an actress was refusing to do a sex scene and the whole project came to a grinding halt. There was also a story someone posted on here about Lindsey Lohan on the movie Canyons or something like that.

I agree with you on this, why risk someone refusing or being 'ill' later and risking all the hard work when it can be done first and everyone can move on.
 
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But is it fair?

With the internet, nude scenes can follow an actor for life.

...and not paying someone (or paying them a very very small fee) yet asking them to show nudity is not right or fair in my book.

I regard it as taking advantage - that's not right in my book.

A well crafted sexy scene is okay - nudity involving unpaid actors ain't.
 
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I disagree - if you can't trust your actors, you shouldn't have cast them in the first place. Likewise, it should be spoken about right from the very first casting session. I don't understand why you'd want to put your actors off and get them off-side from the word go, by making them uncomfortable on the first day.
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The ones appearing nude know from the get-go and I say so in the casting ad. It's not that I don't trust actors, but when directing a film, I make sure I hold all the cards.

If they're "uncomfortable" after the scene, then I'd recast, pronto. It has never happened. They know what they're getting into. If you have to coax, then they're wrong for the part.

Are you paying your actors? If you're not, personally I think it's unfair to ask them to show your breasts or other private areas... Even if you are paying them, I doubt it's union rates so again I think it's unfair.

Sure, some actors may agree to do so but most would do so because they're very desperate (for those IMDB credits).

Put yourself in their shoes, how would you feel?
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We're film directors, not social workers. I've other things to worry about -- like food for the crew/cast. Bottom line -- they're adults and they want to be in movies.
 
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these are all very, very interesting takes on the topic. Seems like it's either "hey, go for it" or DO NOT DO IT. LOL. I think I will just dive right in. I'm in the business of making Art and these actors are my paint.
 
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GuerrillaAngel said:
The ones appearing nude know from the get-go and I say so in the casting ad. It's not that I don't trust actors, but when directing a film, I make sure I hold all the cards.

If they're "uncomfortable" after the scene, then I'd recast, pronto. It has never happened. They know what they're getting into. If you have to coax, then they're wrong for the part.



We're film directors, not social workers. I've other things to worry about -- like food for the crew/cast. Bottom line -- they're adults and they want to be in movies.
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I couldn't agree more. One of the first films I tried working on fell apart because one of the girls suddenly had a change of heart about a scene that had her kissing another girl. Something she was all super excited about and something that would have been about 6 seconds of scream time, if even that! Once she decided against it, it was too late to recast -I tried- and the movie never finished.
This is probably the main reason I am posing this question; trying to see how others handled it.
 
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