How about throwing some shipping into a Peril video?

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As I contemplate my mixed feelings towards the peril videos that try to straddle the line between being a fetish video and something that could pass for a normal Fan Film. (Like calling your video a director's cut of the 1984 Supergirl).

I also think about the one trend of Fan Fiction that never to seems make it into Fan Films, Slash Shipping. Especially ships will likely never be made canon.

Example, my favorite Ship involving Western Comic Book characters is StephCass (Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain).

So how about a video with a blonde actress as Steph in her Batgirl costume.
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And an Asian actress as Cass in her Black Bat costume.
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I'd prefer these in this genre to their original costumes because I don't like masks that cover the entire face.

Have the Villainess and every minion also be female, because some Femslash fans are grossed out by any male on screen presence at all.

Start out like a normal vid. Their sneaking into a lair, they get caught by surprise, they're chloroformed, and the minons fondle their breasts as they slowly pass out.

But when they come to they are tied up together on a bed, not facing away from each other as is common in scene like but, but facing towards each other, making almost difficult not to kiss. Their legs rights together, and waists, and arms tied around each other as if they were embracing, perhaps handcuffs also involved, not to mention their breasts pressed against each other. And a large double vibrator between them, with both their pussies pressed against it.

The villainess then taunts them, she somehow knows they have repressed feeling for each other. And there wants to take advantage of that.

Once the vibrator is turned on, anytime one gives in to the desire to push up against it it will stimulate the other as well.

To subvert expectations. They are not resisting their feelings because they think Lesbianism is a perversion. But also because Steph is dating Tim Drake (Robin) and doesn't to cheat on him. And Cass is also friends with Tim, she sees him as a brother. So neither wants to betray him. So Tim is an important character in the scenario, just off screen.

Perhaps the villainess is also someone interested in Tim and/or Robin and that's why she cares about interfering in Batgirl's love life, and she's smart enough to know simply killing the competition always backfires, even if they never you did it they may never get over the lover who died, so it's better to make her break his heart and then swoop in to mend it. Perhaps The Warlock's daughter (Darla Aquista) who goes from being a Mob Boss's daughter in Robin Unmasked to a Witch during the Infinite Crisis tie in. Oh, and the tabloids of the DCU world suspect Robin and Batgirl are a couple, so this works whether or not the villainess knows anyone's true identity.

Steph and Cass fight the urge to give in, but eventually succumb and start making out with each other and they are brought to orgasm multiple times. And the villainess laughs evilly at her victory.
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So... actual, (semi-)consensual romance in a fetish vid?

I suppose that's an underrepresented niche (albeit one that fanfiction has filled quite nicely). I think Kendra James did one recently, though it mixes-and-matches Marvel with DC heroines.
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Quillofnumenor has a heroine/sidekick text story called Miss Incredible: No Harm Done in the Superheroine Stories section. I included heroine/sidekick elements in my own To Catch a Vigilante: KnightWoman. Also, Doctor Outcome and Star's Ada Knight: Orgasms are Forever has villainess/henchwoman elements.

Most of the fetish videos don't really have the type of ongoing narrative required to make shipping work. They're usually self-contained stories lasting around thirty minutes. Although the suggested one-off scenario of heroines being put together and giving in to their desire for each other would be effective. Also, some of the ongoing non-porn series such as Next Global Crisis could probably include a girl/girl storyline fairly easily.
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I'll check those out.

I guess what makes my suggestion distinct is catering to the potential Yuri the source material already has. You don't need to build the relationship because some fans already ship it.
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With that sort of fan service, the trick is to deliver what the shippers want while also delivering a video that would still make perfect sense to a newcomer or casual fan. The moment you present past continuity as "required reading", you lose the casual audience. Which, with videos that only sell a few hundred units, is not good for business.

I'm not saying fan service is a bad idea, just that it can't be done in a way that excludes non-fans.
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The "casual audience" of fetish videos just wanna see girls in tight outfits.
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Superheroinegirl22 wrote:The "casual audience" of fetish videos just wanna see girls in tight outfits.
Oh, absolutely. But what I'm saying is that a discussion of continuity from the comics will require the models to recite much more dialogue than the usual brief declarations and exclamations we get in these videos. Eating into production time.

Bear in mind that a lot of these videos are shot in half a day and that's literally all the models are getting paid for. No rehearsal time. Which is why fetish videos are thin on story in general. Well, that and the fact that a large part of the audience just wanna see girls in tight outfits.

I agree that shipping would be good. However, you also need a punchy script if you're going to convey something like the off-screen Tim Drake love triangle in a way that's straightforward and doesn't eat into production time or sexy time.
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Oh I thought you meant roll the shipping cost into a fetish video when you sell it. Doh.
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Either that or a video about seamen getting tossed off their vessel.
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How about perils on a cargo ship 1940s style. I like big boats.
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Heroine Addict wrote:
Superheroinegirl22 wrote:The "casual audience" of fetish videos just wanna see girls in tight outfits.
Oh, absolutely. But what I'm saying is that a discussion of continuity from the comics will require the models to recite much more dialogue than the usual brief declarations and exclamations we get in these videos. Eating into production time.

Bear in mind that a lot of these videos are shot in half a day and that's literally all the models are getting paid for. No rehearsal time. Which is why fetish videos are thin on story in general. Well, that and the fact that a large part of the audience just wanna see girls in tight outfits.

I agree that shipping would be good. However, you also need a punchy script if you're going to convey something like the off-screen Tim Drake love triangle in a way that's straightforward and doesn't eat into production time or sexy time.
I don't think you'd need much more exposition to establish then what I wrote in the post.

And I'd envision much of the talking Steph and Cass to do each other about ti may be while they're being vibrated, that what'll make it tense.
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It seems like occasionally some of those Japanese videos are going for a Yuri vibe, but it's hard to tell since I don't know Japanese and am usually going off trailers. Like the second Astro girl, or some of those with the Heroine based on La Seine no Hoshi.
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Heroine Addict wrote:With that sort of fan service, the trick is to deliver what the shippers want while also delivering a video that would still make perfect sense to a newcomer or casual fan. The moment you present past continuity as "required reading", you lose the casual audience. Which, with videos that only sell a few hundred units, is not good for business.

I'm not saying fan service is a bad idea, just that it can't be done in a way that excludes non-fans.
This is a prime example of a story needing custom.
Producers don not under any circumstances like to gamble with their income, especially when so much of it has been crippled by sharing and piracy.
A producer isn't going to break out of his norm unless it can be shown that there is profit in it.
Sometimes whats required to jumpstart a trend is a custom.

It doesn't always work, but in a case lie this its whats called for.

When the producer releases this custom he will see wether there is call for future productions depending on the sales.

Personally I think this would sell, but I'm not going to gamble on my hunch when so much of our productions end up getting traded on forum boards and given away for free on tube sites.

If you want this done pay to have it made.
if the producer sees a spike in sales you can guarantee its going to be made frequently which would make you estate I'm sure.

Depending on how long a video you want it and just how much erotic sexitime is needed it shouldn't cost too much more than standard cost.
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Well I'm afraid I won't be able to afford to pay for a Custom video anytime soon. I'm only occasionally able to buy a video.

So I'm putting the idea out there hoping someone with more money then me might also like the idea.
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Superheroinegirl22 wrote:Well I'm afraid I won't be able to afford to pay for a Custom video anytime soon. I'm only occasionally able to buy a video.

So I'm putting the idea out there hoping someone with more money then me might also like the idea.

heres hoping because from experience the only way thats going to happen is if many people step up to say they would buy it. The producer might be willing to take the risk but he would have to be having a strong gut feeling to book three female models for a day hoping to at least break even.

Maybe if enough people are interested you all could go into a custom together (although that raises another set of problems)
either way I hope you find what you're looking for
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