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after 4pm so we didn ' t want the fight to flip back and forth between afternoon and evening ."
Some shots , especially when Rachel is pulling on the chain , were super decomposed and extremely blurred .
" That footage was actually crisper which presented a problem . Angel was supposed to be on the other side of the chain but we had the actress take a break . Everyone was told to drink water and no one listened so we needed too many breaks since soda dehydrated them a lot . So , no one was on the other end of the chain - Lexi was pulling a loose chain that she had to make you believe was strangling someone to death . I purposely zoomed in into the woods , so we ' re seeing some blurry images of the forest overlaid with Rachel ' s grunts and Angel ' s gasps for breath she is being killed ."
At the beginning of Moonlight ' s fight against Angel , the shadows extremely hide away her face .
" Again , we ' re trying to mix commercial aspect with an underground look and feel , come to a happy medium . Some of it was poorly edited . I wasn ' t aware that snuff films had production values and that camera operators say " Hold on , don ' t die yet , I have to change the angle ." But hey our critics think they know what they ' re talking about . And they didn ' t . And this DVD set proves that . We mostly used cutaways anyway , I did leave out a transitional action and instead used a dissolve to explain some time had passed during Moonlight ' s slaughter of Jacki . So except for the few times a cutaway wasn ' t used , I never knew a cutaway was considered poor editing [ sarcasm intended ]."
Some of the fights didn ' t use the best angles . " Again , think snuff film . I didn ' t want people to ask , " How the hell did they film this so well yet it really happened . Instead I wanted people to believe it really did happen . Now you ' ll watch the behind the scenes footage and ask , " Why didn ' t he use that angle ?" And it ' s because it would look more as a polished film than we were intending ."
Sex Appeal Came with the Girls of GIRLFIGHT
The first screenplay , GIRLFIGHT , featuring Chella Bella on the cover . This was the intended vision of how the girls in GIRLFIGHT were to look until the Producer accepted each girls ' own translation . It is available for sale on Amazon and soon as a DVD .
“ GIRLFIGHT wasn ’ t originally intended to have the sex appeal it did . All the girls were told to wear fitness clothes , that could include sports bras and even tank tops . The definition of fitness clothes seems to vary per person .
I ’ ve went to gyms where fitness clothes meant a t-shirt and jogging pants . Then I ’ ve went to gyms where girls were side-less tank tops where I felt it was too revealing . And then there are the gyms where you ’ ll see either Rachel or Selena ’ s attire , and given we had people from so many different backgrounds , from metro to urban and rural , and given my own experiences . Hell I ’ ve been to beaches where the bikinis were more revealing than Moonlight ’ s attire … anything was fair game .”
My vision was captured the best by Jade and Selena ’ s fight scene , sold as Part III : Jade ’ s Fight in the GIRLFIGHT : Behind the Scenes series . Then the second fight , Rachel against Angel when she was originally playing Cherry , Lexi interpreted that to include a bit more revealing than I had intended . Until then , all the girls had to go by was the published screenplay GIRLFIGHT which featured Ohio Model Chella Bella in a sports bra and running pants on the cover . So I sacrificed some good shots so the fans could see how muscular and fit her thighs were as she began to kill Angel . I wasn ’ t sexualizing Rachel , I was emphasizing her strength and Lexi ’ s choice in shorts allowed me to do this . You can see all of that in Part II : Rachel ’ s Fight in the GIRLFIGHT : Behind the Scenes series .”
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