Whilst not directly related to the original point of the thread, I’ll post this here as it has a bit of relevance to what was being discussed in this topic:
Here’s a potential idea, would be a bit of work from a story writing / editing perspective though.
Sorry for the long read!
Have you ever thought about doing something similar to Beverly/Madisons ‘The Mistress’ from 2010 on a larger scale, but critically, having more individual standalone movies? So same setup where you don’t actually have both models together on the same day.
I’ll try and explain a bit more:
Essentially, while having a specific scenario for a movie, with its own individual storyline, have this story apart of a larger one? Basically, I’m thinking the end result could be a series of movies that are all intertwined in some way, that could be combined into a reasonably long multi-model movie with multiple scenarios when you feel the overall/main story has all been shot - which could just be as simple as ‘One morning in building X’.
Basic examples are easy, like model A is in the restroom so model B has to wait. But let’s go a bit further than that, take an elevator scenario.
Model A is stuck in an elevator with another man from the same building. This can obviously be a standalone movie just like you have done in the past, but what if you introduce model B. A really simple example from a story point of view: Model B now has to take the stairs because the elevator is broken. Her boss (the man) is stuck in the elevator, this now impacts her day in some way, let’s say she has to go out and meet a client that her boss was going to do, resulting in her getting stuck in traffic.
What would be the point of all this? Well it opens up the possibility of editing together a more multi-model/scenario driven movie, so just in this basic example, you could have both movies combined together to include the best bits of the elevator movie, and the effects it has on model B, with hopefully very little added footage. If people wish to see a specific scenario in more detail, they can by purchasing the individual movie (which would naturally have to released first anyway).
Simple example out of the way, the idea would be to have more than two movies/models, potentially all working in the same building / company or it could be a completely different setting, but essentially the events/actions in one movie should effect the overall combined story in some way. Each individual movie would therefore be shot from that models perspective, over a certain ‘story timeframe’. E.g. One models ‘just made it’ ending could be one of the delay scenarios for another.
As I said at the start, it’s probably a significant task just from the story point of view to tie things together, if you think you might struggle with it, maybe we could try and somehow figure something out on the forums? Could even setup a funding for it if enough interest or you feel it would be required.
Another potential issue is that it would also probably need to be shot during a ‘busy time’ so the entire release process didn’t span too long.
Anyway...just an idea