Motel

From the beginning, the directors wanted to create our own motel, within our limitations.
Together with our art direction duo, Tamara Soriano and Fernanda Selva, we created Motel Shanghai. It has a reference to the aesthetics of Wong Kar Wai and all his enigmatic sensuality, but we wanted to subvert a little.
The colors are more pronounced, both in the art and in the light.
Green, for example, vibrates for something sexier, fun and has a more pop and Brazilian tone.
Red is warmer, bringing a more sexual mood.

We play with diegetic lights in the scene and chromatic contrasts through light and art.
I used a Raffle 650w with a beehive on the giraffe, the actresses and the bed very high, diegetic lights on the lamps and a very subtle counter to reinforce the background.
I chose to use a tripod and camera in hand.
The freedom in the narrative and the directors’ diegesis make the atmosphere of the scenes transpire feelings and sensations.

Menstruation Sex

Our guest on the episode about Menstrual Sex is AJ, a non-binary person who has sex with menstruation.
Menstrual blood is a very taboo thing, given that it is portrayed as a blue liquid in tampon advertisements while we see heads being cut off and spurting blood in any movie that runs on television in the afternoon.
Therefore, building an episode that brought lightness, beauty and naturalness to a sex scene between two people that involved menstruation was essential.
Also, the choice of the house laundry was to break with the idea of a bloody sex having to happen in a bed with a towel.

We wanted and had to explore the location, a real house and all of its rooms. The laundry room was outside the house, it was very cramped and had a window that helped us create the atmosphere of the scene.
The voile fabrics on the clothesline brought lightness and poetry, I was able to use them to create foregrounds and start with a more voyeur look, creating a sexy atmosphere without being fetishized and playing with the delicacy of the actresses without these bodies having to perform according to the expectation of genre.

I only used a light source that came from outside the laundry room door,
an HMI 1800w, filtered with CTO and 30 x10.
We started shooting with a steadicam, and when the scene became more intimate (middle to the end), I got into the action along with the actresses and chose to go with the camera in hand, mainly because it was a very limited space.

Ménage

In the Ménage episode, we honor Mepe’s personality, who is an inspiration of freedom, joy and hedonism. The living room in the house of “Sobrepostas” had classic dark wood furniture, and the table, the painting and the sconces (which we used to our advantage) formed the setting for our Dionysian banquet. But in this case, the banquet was these bodies, living the experience of the ménage, in which a man was the object of desire of two women and not the other way around, as usual.
And since there is no script for a threesome, we leave the actors free to move around the table, or on top of it.
I used a unique light source, in addition to the diegetic ones, combining a chromatic contrast between warm and cold.

BDSM

We wanted to detach BDSM from a ‘traditional’ aesthetic focused on latex clothing and leather objects and chains, to something homey and every day. Something you do at home, before breakfast or while cooking beans.
As this episode had a more documentary tone and at the same time more “comic”, I chose to use the 16mm very close and glued to the actors. We had already created a great intimacy there, this was the last episode we filmed.
Although I was very close to them, I was careful enough to interfere as little as possible in their actions.
Here I also used only a single light source, a Nanlite Forza 500, with 30×10 to diffuse, creating a very naturalistic atmosphere.

First Sex

A lot of people think that PCD (people with disabilities) don’t have sex. And it makes sense, because these people are rarely represented in audiovisual and advertising, let alone porn. That’s why the idea for the First Sex scene was to show that, yes, PCD women have an active sex life like anyone else.
Guest Eva says that “Water is a liberating environment” for her, who felt supported by the support that water provides. Therefore, the bathtub in the scene became an important element, almost a protagonist.

Here I used 2 light sources coming from the windows and art mirrors in favor of the light, reflecting and marking a subtle mandrake in the background.
We started filming on the tripod and during the action we chose to go with the camera in hand.

Oral Sex

The character of the episode is a trans woman who is loved, admired and desired. Our representation is of a woman who is happy and totally comfortable with her body.
She is in a relationship and the scene is with her boyfriend in the morning in her living room. This episode has an undertone of romanticism almost never seen in association with trans women’s narratives.
There was also a desire to create a Caribbean setting and atmosphere, with interesting textures and tones through art direction.
Here I used an HMI 1800w coming from Janela. The blue fabric/curtain helped to create an interesting and different tone.
We opted for the tripod.

Sex After HIV

There was a concern not to stigmatize fat bodies or stigmatize the bodies of people who have HIV. That’s why we thought of a sex scene with great pleasure between the actors.
In this scene, it was important that he had oral sex, penetration and cum.

The bluish tone of the episode came to create the feeling and refer sex to “moon light” in a different way.
Warm diegetics helped to create a slight chromatic contrast.
I used the Nanlite forza 500 with 30×10 and CTO coming from the window, highlighting the backlight more, preserving the contour of the bodies, in addition to a Kino Flo with 4 0.60 lamps to have a smooth information on the edge of the bed.
We started filming on the tripod and during the action we chose to go with the camera in hand.

First Sensations of Pleasure

The biggest inspiration for the episode was the time travel to rescue the memories of what had no name. Heart racing, skin sensations, excitement, pulse, vibration, a body in erotic awakening.
Discovering the clitoris is a shared memory.
To portray these feelings, we bet on the everyday scenes of adolescence with an atmosphere of memory, almost a dream.
We shot all the scenes in close-up and fully natural light, as we had very little time to do them, and we thought of this strategy to be able to fulfill it.
We filmed on a tripod and camera in hand.

Masturbation

When the subject is the naturalization of female masturbation, there was also care in creating images that popularized this imaginary, so punished for girls.
Therefore, the self-touch deserves to be represented in an erotic and habitual way, that is, in a way that breaks with notions of an ordered, controlled, oppressive world. In this episode, among some stock footage to portray phenomena of nature used as visual metaphors of bodily sensations, we find different vulvas in super close and different women masturbating, each in their own way, an antidote to all the punitive speeches related to female masturbation.
The musical choices also bring this rhythm of sexual drive, by Ana Cañas, among other singers, until the moment of orgasm, which is accompanied by a beautiful scream sung in Gal’s crystalline voice.

We shot all the scenes in close-up and fully natural light, as we had very little time to do them and we thought of this strategy to be able to fulfill it.
We filmed on a tripod and camera in hand.

Squirt

In the episode about the squirt, we were based on the experience of our interviewee Kiran (who had her most delicious squirt with oral sex performed by a woman), so we wanted to demystify that women only achieve the squirt with penetration and, often, with penetration very intense, almost raw.
Thinking that the spurt has a feminine potency, of a woman-nature and thinking that the body is water, the whole concept of this scene was thought of as a river that flows inside that, at some point, flows. And that’s why the scenes have a lot of fluids, in kisses, in saliva, in the body’s natural lubrications.

This was the first episode we captured from the fictional scenes.
As I had never had the experience of filming sex, I chose to stay further away from the actresses and have a more contemplative look through a more observational, but intimate camera, which did not interfere in anything with the characters’ actions.
So, I would also be able to understand a little of the dynamics of rec operation.

Orgasm

In “Orgasm”, it was important to create a sophisticated scene in which the actress who receives the spanking is super sure of herself and very lucid about what makes her feel pleasure.
The piano was an object that ended up becoming essential for the scene, being played by the actress while she was reaching orgasm.

Here it was very important to capture the skin, which was reddened and marked by sexual objects, in addition to the slaps that Ana received from her scene partner.
The directors wanted to emphasize these textures.
I used a Raffle 650w with a beehive on the giraffe, very zenith to the cast + a subtle diegetic point of the lampshade, which I reinforced with a light 150w finger. We started filming on the tripod and during the action we chose to go with the camera in hand.

Sex Toy

For the Sex Toys episode, we filmed in table top the different scenarios that chronologically represented the life stages of female sexuality to the present day.
From children’s books to the most modern vibrators that, in the last scene, are shuddering under the sheet, composing a vibrating symphony.

To illustrate some of the uses of vibrators, we bet on a potpourri of scenes from all the other episodes in which the actors and actresses used the toys, in a vast succession of scenes of different bodies, scenarios and atmospheres, reinforcing that these objects can and do part of the sex lives of many different people.
I used a Raffle 650w with a hive 45o from the table / objects, with flags and broadcasts.
Static and zenith camera.