Hey folks, the VIP club won’t be updated on October 1, but on October 3 as I am away over the weekend.
I will make the usual blog post then and send emails with new passwords to the current VIP club members.
That will also affect the time it takes for me to reply to emails or Paypal donations, so please be patient with me on October 1 and (most of) October 2.
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Before the 2nd video shoot, I came up with the idea to make a little (verrrrrry obvious) Easter Egg video for my favorite movie.
Some years ago I made an extra Thunderball page for it with links to extra pages to certain scenes and topics.
Some days ago I had the idea to have a little quiz about Thunderball and that the extra, special, secret bonus video would be the reward for those who master it.
It’s just a very short video, but if you like Thunderball and/or wanna see Frogwoman Lucy on the surface in an Elios vintage beavertail wetsuit… you will LOVE it 😉
Plus it’s for free…and it should be fun!
You will find the secret page with the video… if you add the letters of the correct answers to the standard frogwoman website address.
For example: If “A” would be the correct answer to every question, the address which would lead you to the video would be: frogwoman.org/aaaaaa
Spoiler alert: “A” isn’t always the correct answer 😉
Hint: IMDB and the pages/videos of my Thunderball project will help you with the solutions
1) In which country was Thunderball released first?
A) USA — B) UK — C) West Germany — D) Japan — E ) East Germany — F) Uzbekistan
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2) How many letters does the full name of the actress contain who plays the main villainess in Thunderball?
A) 13 — B) 14 — C) 15 — D) 18 —- E) 42
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3) What is the page number of my favorite Thunderball scene (check Thunderball project)?
A) 5 — B) 6 — C) 8 — D) 73273 — E) 7
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4) How many crew members get gassed on the Vulcan Bomber in Thunderball?
A) 5 — B) 4 — C) 6 —- D) 3 — E) Strawberry Ice Cream!
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5) How many Dollars does Angelo want from SPECTRE as he has the brilliant idea to blackmail them?
A) 100000 — B) 1000000 — C) 250000 — D) 9,99 — E) 200000
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6) How old was Sir Sean Connery as Thunderball was released in the USA?
A) 36 — B) 34 — C) 33 — D) 35 — E) 32
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If you are worthy to watch the video… you should be able to find the correct answers 😉
You may post comments, but don’t give away any solutions.
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So, it’s time for the first video of the 2nd video shoot of “Project F”!
As I mentioned in the previous post the videos from that shoot will be pretty short, but action-packed as we tried some simple action scenarios.
Some preview pictures:
(click to enlarge)
+ a short teaser:
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Background info:
I do know 2 movies/TV shows that have this “Diver takes pictures and gets attacked” scenario. James Bond in Thunderball and the frogwoman in the “Silk Stalkings” TV show.
And in the future, I wanna make a version with a detailed script where a frogwoman takes pictures of some secret stuff and gets attacked by an evil frogwoman who wants to stop her (and kill her).
For this video, I used only some basic instructions on what the two should and could do and it was a one-shot without any re-shoots.
My camera was a little shaky in the first few seconds. I’m pretty new to the whole filming aspect and it’s not easy to totally focus on the tiny camera screen when such a scene happens in real life right before you 😉
It was also not easy to follow these two with the camera, but I think it worked out quite well even though it’s a bit of a challenge to move around in 3 dimensions and stay in a good position to the moving action.
I am very happy about how the 2 frogwomen (Kara + Lucy) did such an action scene underwater! I mean the two have basically no scuba experience and only had that mini scuba session from the first video shooting back in December. I am glad they returned for another video shoot!
They were really brave and the scene worked out pretty fine in my opinion.
Frogwoman Lucy really likes to steal regulators and likes to be a scuba villainess 😉
We had only 5 hours to shoot and a LOT of time was needed to assemble the gear and all that. And I wanted to get several quick scenarios done in that time to gain experience in shooting underwater action scenes.
I will write detailed scripts for the next shooting, as long these videos generate enough money to cover at least the expenses.
Yeah, the video here is short, but it has a rather long scuba fight (90% of the runtime). In the end, most scuba fights in movies or TV shows are much shorter in the end.
With a detailed script I wanna make a video with this scenario that will have at least 5 or 6 minutes.
But we made a 2nd version of this fight, I will post that in the next weeks as well.
Fun fact:
At first the fight was supposed to be about the camera but that quickly floated out of sight and mind (can be seen on the surface in the last seconds).
Next time I will need to add some weight into the camera 😉
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Editing:
I used some filters (10% more brightness in gamma and gain, text).
As I mentioned before the audio here was challenging with a sound the camera picked up from the pool machinery.
Still working on improving that with audio filters, so you will find 2 versions of this. One with the original audio and the latest version with audio filters.
You can check the (original) sound in the video above. It’s not really bad, but I still try to find a way to improve it.
Where to watch it?
The video is available in the VIP club in September alongside the other content….as it is under 4 minutes of running time!
Here is a quick overview of the content of this month:
https://frogwoman.org/frogwoman-vip-club-2-0-september-2022
You can download these videos in the VIP club, but only for your personal use.
Don’t share them with anyone…. anywhere!
It’s pretty simple, I had to spend a lot of money:
All that scuba gear, location rent, and the money for the frogwomen….
If I don’t make enough money with these videos….. I won’t be able to make new videos at some point.
So…. I hope you appreciate these videos and want to see more in the future!
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I will post (at least) 5 more videos from that video shoot in the next weeks.
2 more in October, 2 more in November, and the last one in December.
Don’t know when I post my personal favorite exactly…yet.
In that one Frogwoman Lucy wants to repeat what she did at the end of video 5, it has something to do with a scuba knife 😉
#mysterious hint
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Hey folks, I just finished editing the first video and it will be released on Sunday in the VIP club as I mentioned in my previous post.
I do have problems with an audio issue though so far. The camera picked up a rather annoying sound underwater that I didn’t hear back on Sunday.
I guess these are sounds from the pool technique machinery.
In the last few days, I tried some audio filters on the editing software Shotcut, which I use for my videos.
It wasn’t a big problem to practically erase that sound, but so far all these efforts also affected the normal/wanted sound as well.
I am just a beginner in that program but I will try my best to improve things.
Perhaps I will upload a file with the original audio and one with edited audio and you can choose what you prefer.
I do hope to get some help to fix this issue from someone who knows that program better than I do (especially the audio filters).
So, if you are very familiar with audio filters, especially the ones on Shotcut, please let me know. (Use the contact side).
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In the meantime, some pictures from the next video to tease you 😉 :
(click to enlarge)
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P.S.:
I bought a new red wetsuit recently that will be used in the future, check it out:
https://frogwoman.org/project-f/project-f-scuba-gearwanted-scuba-gear
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The originally planned 2nd shooting of “Project F” last month couldn’t be done since I got sick 🙁
But, today the shooting actually happened!
This time with a lot more underwater action since I tried some simple scenarios to see how directing such underwater scenes would work out.
Now I am really tired and quite “flashed” by all that happened today… so this post won’t be very long.
Yeah, there was a lot of improvising and future scripts need to be more detailed, longer, and more “polished”.
From today I learned a lot for future shots and already wrote down some ideas to improve things.
Especially communicating underwater as a “director” has to improve … perhaps with some gadgets.
All in all, I am very happy about this 2nd shoot.
A lot of things improved in comparison to the 1st one.
The pool was now something completely different: 25 meters long (82 feet) and one end was a little over 4 meters deep (around 13 feet)!
The lighting was much better this time and …as this was a regular pool (without annoying foil that could easily get damaged)…. we could use fins this time 😉
I am very happy I found this location and certainly wanna shoot there again.
The scenes we shoot today will result in rather short videos, but with a lot of action!
Pretty sure all the videos will therefore be presented in the VIP club as they will be under 4 minutes.
All the 3 frogwomen in today’s shooting showed a strong commitment and delivered some engaging action scenes.
I was and am very impressed by that!
Especially since one frogwoman actually cut herself several(!) times in one wild, fast action scene and behaved like that would be totally normal…. more or less.
Certainly just small cuts, but with some blood, so many others would have certainly freaked out.
So, that is all for now, I might post some teasers the next days 😉
I plan to release the first video of this shooting the next Sunday (September 25).
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Time for some scuba scenes from a fresh movie from 2022!
I put the 2 main scuba scenes in it, some more snippets are in it, but nothing of big interest.
I also added some surface footage …as she looks fine in her wetsuit.
Preview:
(click to enlarge)
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Here is the video …for all who don’t live in the US, it was blocked by Youtube (only) there:
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If you do live in the US, I placed the video for you here as well:
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Yeah, no real action, nothing spectacular, but I am happy about every new movie that actually does have scuba scenes in it… as there are only very few which have that.
She looks just fine in her wetsuit and the scuba gear is ok. Sadly there are no scuba action scenes in this one as it is a romantic comedy.
The story is rather simple, she loses her ring as she is doing some sort of yoga on a surfboard, a valuable heirloom.
He is the slightly strange, but handsome scuba teacher of the hotel, and they fall in love etc..
In my version, I would have added a scene where he would have heroically saved her as she becomes stuck underwater or something and nearly drowns 😉
That would still be fitting in such a genre movie.
Or I would actually gender swap the roles and the scuba teacher would be a woman, and she would get in trouble underwater…
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Wanna know from which movie this is?
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This is a scene from a classic, well known-movie. So far the scene wasn’t on my blog and I decided to change that.
In this scene, a female diver is doing some maintenance work as suddenly the power goes off.
She will have a very special experience….
Preview:
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Yeah, very little in terms of action and peril, but the scene has other interesting aspects.
First of all, this is quite an amazing scene as she is meeting alien lifeforms who are ….unlike in most movies…. don’t attack her.
She is calm and doesn’t panic as she is seeing an unknown lifeform that has just sneaked up on her.
I really like the breathing sounds here in combination with the bubbles that leave her helmet.
The scuba gear here isn’t exactly so interesting as her helmet and wetsuit are rather far away from being sexy.
If I would make a “female diver encounters alien lifeform” scene, the alien would be very curious, and it would have more of a body.
It might try out how the oxygen supply of the diver would work and might start playing with it 😉
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In case you don’t know from which movie this is:
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Looking forward to it and hope that everything/most things go as planned 😉
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(the picture is just a logo for the VIP Club)
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*EDIT* September 25:
Here is the link to a preview of the new video:
https://frogwoman.org/frogwomen-kara-and-lucy-in-scuba-spy-12th-video-of-project-f-2nd-video-shoot
All the videos of Project F can be found on this page:
https://frogwoman.org/project-f-videos
An excel file for every video I uploaded to this blog! Incl. the movie title or TV show name (+episode number), a short description, my personal rating, post title, and a link to that post. Basically, it’s a directory if you are looking for a scene from a certain movie. Or the description gets you interested so you can check it out 
*UPDATE* September 1: The list has now 284 entries and can now be found in the VIP club (will be updated regularly).
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