(A filter was used by me to make the video a bit brighter… it is even darker in the original)
Well…. have I promised too much? I hope not….
First, some background story as this scene is a flashback:
“The real Elliot Stanley was a diver, who Frank McDonnell hired to find a downed plane which his father had been on. His father had called him telling him he had important information to
share but had died on the plane before he could show him.
Hoping to find what was inside, Frank hired Elliot. However, Elliot had also become acquainted with Niamh Cassidy, and had travelled down to the plane with her.
While there, she handcuffed him to the plane and sliced his breathing apparatus with a knife, killing him so he couldn’t reveal the truth of what had been found there.”
(not written by me)
Ok, there are some minus points here for sure:
It’s quite a dark scene, even with some added light by me. Ok, it’s realistic as they dive down quite deep and have only their small lights.
It’s uncool that there hasn’t been any surface shot before the dive… especially as they have such cool vintage scuba gear.
Also… it’s not good that his drowning isn’t shown at all. She exists the plane and the rest is left to the imagination.
But… there is a LOT of great aspects in this one for me!
There is a female scuba diver who attacks a male diver and kills him… that is incredibly rare stuff! I know only 3 or 4 scenes where that happens in the movies or in a TV show.
The scuba hear is great. Seems like this is set in the 70s or 80s with these suits. They both have great vintage wetsuits. What is really interesting is that both divers seemingly have “armored”
air hose with some protective encasing around the regular air hose.
That is quite unusual and also … weird. I mean you can see her protector just around most of the hose while some parts aren’t protected by it.
But ok, this way only certain parts of her hose can be sliced.
Perhaps both used this extra protection as they were diving into a wreck … which often has some sharp edges.
Or are they both prepared for a scuba knife fight? 😉
It’s funny and unrealistic that his air hose basically explodes as her knife is just touching it 😆
It’s actually quite difficult to slice such a hose… as I have proven in some of my Project F videos 😉
I really like how she planned this whole thing. She ties him up first, which he realizes very quickly and then she attacks with her knife.
He isn’t helpless and also has a knife. She cuts into his arm, so his defense is down as she slices his air hose.
She is out of his reach and so he is doomed to drown in that plane.
I love all the sounds that he makes in this scene! I guess they added some in post-production, a great job 🙂
He immediately realizes that he is in big trouble and you can hear that from the start.
Also, I do love the reveal of the scuba killer!
How she walks out of the water, that she ditches some gear, and that you can only see from behind how she pulls off her scuba hood.
The audience has still no clue who that is or how she looks until the camera moves around her and shows her face in that phone booth.
A great reveal for sure!
Ok, enough from me… how do YOU like this scene?
Leave a comment here or on YouTube!
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Wanna know the title of the TV show and the episode name?
Lethal or non-lethal ending for at least one of them?
Spoiler title
Lethal
(will add such info on the other videos as well in the next weeks)
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Background info (without spoiler):
I think the video turned out pretty good and has a lot of aspects I really love, and you hopefully will love as well!
Frogwoman Lucy got the new Elios wetsuit I got some weeks before the video shoot.
I think it looks quite spectacular! You don’t see many red wetsuits as that color is a little “problematic,” as I explained in the unboxing video.
As I am a huge Thunderball fan, I love the red/orange wetsuits that Bond and the Navy diver wore in that movie.
And this wetsuit has a very interesting red that changes quite a bit with the overall lighting!
I really like scenes where Frogwomen film themselves as the camera is close by all the time, and you don’t have any breathing sounds of me on it (when I am operating the camera).
Rachel and Alice are experienced Freedivers in real life, so it was the best choice to let them play these roles in the video.
It’s the first video with Rachel in it! #debut
Lucy has only the limited scuba experience she has from the 4 (of 5) video shoots in which she participated, but again, she performed really well!
From a retro perspective, it would have been good to have done some more takes of some of the action scenes at the end with better instructions from me.
But that is always the problem with very limited time. Perhaps I will add 1 or 2 hours to the next video shoot, even if that costs … even… more money.
This video is a good example of how continuity errors find their way into movies and videos, as you may already see in the pictures above.
Lucy did a first dive with the all-black mask, but water got into it… so she got another mask to use in the video.
But I just didn’t think about the fact that meant that we had to re-shoot the surface scene as she there had the all-black scuba mask…. yeah, not my best moment.
In the video, I built in two short explanations for gear changes as I think that was the best way to now deal with them so they are not a problem.
Also… an extra thanks to Rachel and Alice as they brought their own freediving fins to the video shoot! (They got a little extra for that)
I do have several pairs of normal scuba fins…. but no long freediving fins in my gear collection…. so far.
Frogwoman Lucy is wearing an awesome vintage-style wetsuit from Elios:
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Editing:
I used some filters (10% more brightness in gamma and gain, text)
Where to watch it?
The video will be available again in Februaryin the VIP club alongside the other content!
Here is a quick overview of the content of this month:
You can watch and download these videos in the VIP club, but only for 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 and the safety diver.
If I don’t make enough money with these videos….. I won’t be able to make new videos at some point.
I hope you appreciate these videos and want to see more in the future!
After all, you get all those Project F videos each month + additional content for just 12 euros (or even less per month if you get into the VIP club for more than one month).
I would say that is quite a bargain!
Why are my videos not on sites like Clip4sale?
Well, Clip4sale are a bunch of cutthroats that want 40%(!) of each video that you sell.
Yes, they offer those videos to a wide audience, but I don’t wanna give someone 40% for “just” providing the platform to sell the videos.
Also, that would mean that you would have to pay a lot more to get the videos…
I guess I could have made more money if my videos were on Clip4sale… but well, I won’t do it.
I will check out other sites like Vimeo though, if that would be an option or not.
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The future of Project F?
I will upload another new Project F video from this video shoot every 2 weeks from now on…. 6 or 7 in total!
In the summer I wanna finally have my first video shoot in a lake (June?)
And there will be another video shoot this year in this cool deep pool …around September.
So, there will be many more new videos for the VIP club for sure 😉
I do prefer live-action over animated scenes… but this one just has to be on the blog!
Thanks to the guy who recommended it to me some time ago!
We have a frogwoman and a frogman who encounter two evil female scuba divers 🙂
Preview:
They encounter…
…two evil female scuba divers!
Creative!
Her air hose is damaged!
(click to enlarge)
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
There are a lot of interesting aspects to this one.
The scuba gear is very unusual! The evil female divers use some mini breathing devices like James Bond does in Thunderball.
And the two heroes have an even more interesting setup. They use oxygen masks with double hoses!
I guess both hoses are supposed to be intake hoses here as it wouldn’t be a big problem if the left hose would be damaged like that as that would (normally) be the outtake hose where the used air
gets transported back to the first stage to be vented out there.
But maybe I’m overthinking it already as the creators might not actually had a clue how that gear would work…?!?
However, I really like the scene with the damaged air hose! Nice sound effects and a creative scuba fight for sure.
The guy throws an octopus at one of the attackers… and she is out of the fight… at least.
Delilah grabs the weight belt of the other villainess who then ascends quickly to the surface… which can be deadly depending on the depth and the fact if she can stop the uncontrolled ascend
or not.
All in all a very interesting and thrilling scene 🙂
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Wanna know the title of the TV show and the episode name?
Wasn’t welcome on YouTube, even in a short(er) version.
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Watch the video before you continue!
Ok, first of all… some more nice scuba scenes with her!
She does look really hot in her scuba gear.
But then… there are quite some ….bad aspects… here as well…
There are three divers down there. Two managed to get entangled in a net on the ship and another one drowned inside the ship.?!?
Well… WTF! Guess that must be a whole group of special morons 😆
But much worse: What is going on with her? Were the scriptwriters on drugs or something?
She is outside the ship seeing the drowned diver. Yeah, that is a shock for her and a reminder of the fisherman that she couldn’t save earlier in the movie.
But what happens now? Same sad flashbacks with terrible music and then she is suddenly floating unconscious outside the wreck?!?!?! ARGH!
So, what happened? Did she decide to drown herself? Did she decide to take a nap down there?
Or was she suddenly out of air and immediately drowned in some seconds without trying to swim to the surface?
None of that makes any sense….
Well, quite a bizarre ending to the movie as well…
But well…. it had some nice scuba scenes for sure!
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Wanna know the title of the TV show and the episode name?
Thanks to a nice visitor of this site I can present this one today, thanks for the reco.!
Preview:
Trapped and….
…out of air!
Can she…
…survive?
(click to enlarge)
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
Yeah, sadly the video quality is rather poor. Hopefully, a better quality will be available in the future.
This scene follows the classic “trapped in a net” storybook for a while.
She gets stuck in the net (why the hell there is no one with her? #Buddy), and she can’t get out + of course… her air is completely depleted already?!?
Wow, she/they don’t follow many rules for safe diving 😆
She gets rescued but doesn’t care about her rescuer at all until she is on the boat… #nextbuddyfail
Then he gets stuck also in the same net… how did he manage to do that? Where is his knife?
Why does he lose his regulator? So many questions…
In the end, it all is just a bad dream of hers… maybe that’s why the two behave so recklessly/dumbly.
On the good side: Her stressed, rapid, loud breathing sounds as the camera gets so close are really well done!
All in all a solid peril scene in my opinion.
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Wanna know the title of the movie?
That scene is from episode 1 of Life is Beautiful, a South Korean TV show
As of now… you can find the whole episode on YouTube, but there are no more scuba scenes in it.
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I have known this one for quite a while now but hadn’t made a post about it in all that time.
Time to change that!
This one is based one a true event… more on that later on.
We have a female diver and her new husband on their honeymoon vacation.
He persuaded her to go on some dives near the Great Barrier Reef.
And he has special plans for her…
Preview:
Our frogwoman (right) isn’t so eager to dive…
But she dives with her husband
She wants back to the surface!
Well…. he has other plans
(click to enlarge)
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As I said before… this one is based on a real event where a husband killed his wife on their honeymoon vacation.
This leaves quite a bitter taste… as it makes the movie scene a little bit too “real”.
As you might know by now… I do enjoy scuba peril scenes a lot… but only if they are not happening in “real” life.
Knowing that this actually happened to a woman makes it difficult to watch… unless you separate the movie scene from reality.
My other issue with this scene is the fact that the most dramatic part isn’t shown on screen… the part where she drowns.
Seemingly he had turned her air off and then held onto her until she drowned.
There are some short flashback scenes about the scuba murder, but I am 99% sure that wasn’t shown there either.
Will re-watch the whole movie someday.
It’s good that she fights back, even though she has so little scuba training while he has much more experience.
It’s a little odd that she did not immediately head towards the surface after she knocked his mask off… but I guess she wasn’t sure that he actually was about to murder her.
All in all, it’s quite a strong scuba peril scene which is a little hard to watch… with the background knowledge.
Spoiler:
The husband gets convicted for her death, but gets a laughable sentence… here is the background story.
I know this scene for a while and it’s a fascinating one.
There is one major issue though that prevented this one from getting posted earlier:
The available picture quality is quite bad…
Hopefully, I will find a better source with hopefully much better picture quality and better colors.
But still, it is certainly a scene worth watching!
Preview:
Time for the attack…
…of the evil frogwoman!
A female swimmer attacks her!
(click to enlarge)
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*EDIT* November 6: A got the full movie (still in crappy quality) … so I got some background info. These characters are working in the same company and
are performing underwater ballet! But they have some serious issues and so people get murdered.
I really love the scenario! A female diver who wants to drown a guy with the help of a rope. That’s unusual!
It’s hard to say how realistic this is. I mean the guy is very buoyant and she needs to be strong enough to keep him underwater.
Perhaps… if she has a lot of weight on her dive belt… that is doable.
It’s a common trope that the swimmer just tries to get away instead of attacking the diver which might be the best option.
I mean as long as he isn’t attacking her she can attack him again and again.
She has scuba gear incl. a mask, fins, and a tank… she is far better equipped than him.
If he would attack her he could eventually turn the tables by ripping off her mask and stealing her regulator.
But he just tries to get to the surface and just drowns… I guess the female swimmer could try to revive him, but she keeps following the frogwoman.
The frogwoman just swims away, which is quite odd. I mean she has a big advantage over the female swimmer as well, but maybe she was impressed by her fighting skills.
*EDIT* November 6: I checked to full movie to see what is happening after the villainess unmasks herself at the beach:
Well, she walks away, and the female swimmer follows her unnoticed until the villainess reaches a hotel and just walks in… still in wetsuit and with her scuba tank.
Sadly, the camera only shows it from behind… and the picture quality is bad.
Hopefully, a version with better quality is available somewhere!
A scene where a female swimmer fights against a female diver is VERY rare stuff….
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*EDIT* November 6: The title is something like:
Underwater Ballet Murder Case – A midsummer nightmare!
(translated from the Japanese title)
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