Fred588 wrote:Please correct me if I am incorrect, but I suspect what you are describing as objectionable is what might be called "narrating" rather than just "talking out loud". To my vocabulary, narrating means describing what is happening rather than acting it out, and talking out loud would be any form of audible speech. "Its up to my thighs now" would, I think, almost certainly be narration but "this must be quicksand," would not necessarily be, depending on vocal emotion.BogDog wrote:I would have to say talking out loud during an accidental sink takes away the believably of the scene, though some members seem to prefer it. "This must be quicksand" or "It's up to my thighs now" are fine for intentional or staged sinks, but have no place in a moment of severe distress.
I guess the best example of a realistic scene to me are the ones performed by Kelli on the "Quicksand Terrors" dvd (my favorite). She stumbles into real quicksand, gets caught and starts to fight and struggle to get free in a believable manner as she gradually sinks. Sadly, most of the others had too much scripted speech except for Danielle's scenes, which were also well done and almost as believable as Kelli's.
When I see a post for a new dvd and I see nothing but watery peat and "Hollywood" quicksand in it, I just move on. That's just me, I guess. My eye for detail is also at times my curse.
Regardless of the semantics I find myself torn between the two. At times I'd like to hear almost a play-by-play "narration" if you will and others I prefer what I call "animal noises". I once thought the difference was between erotic and dramatic scenes but then realized that I often found the narration to be erotic. I have recognized that my "curse" is almost the opposite of BogDog's in that I have an almost Ed Wood ability to ignore everything wrong and go along with the scene. Getting it completely perfect is great however like most sex it can be better but it's never bad.
Wouldn't it be great if there were really only one correct way to do this?
