Some models look better than they perform. Victoria is a good example. She looked great in still photographs and I fell in love with her almost immediately. Then came the video. She honks like a goose when she tries to make "pain noises" and is too energetic. After I got the raw video footage, I realized that she is also very tall. But, she is too beautiful to ignore, so I gave some critical instruction and booked her again for a sequel and chose actions and positions that better suited her body. She was better in the second video. In her case, less action is better. She is great with dialogue. She pleads for mercy well.
If I had to rank the ones I've used, at the top of the list would be CRY. I love suspension and she looks fantastic in a suspended spreadeagle. If it helps, here are my rankings:
1. Anna - the best combination of acting and physical performance of any of the models I've used. She was a surprise. She came to one of my videos as the friend of Alina (the brunette in the "Rope or Money" series). She could do hanging, suspension, and a believable electro. Her voice recorded on electronic media very well. She left the studio after "A Very Strange Dream" - the first of my Body Donor films - and I hope she got into mainstream acting because she was a real talent.
2. CRY - the best suspended spreadeagle victim I've found.
3. Anastasia - she is the perfect innocent victim.
4. White Rose, but only as the "Dr. Mengele" evil scientist. She has limits to what she can do physically as a victim, but if you write a script within those limits, she will play the role very well and she'll give a good emote performance.
4. Tay - a true professional. In the few videos I booked with her, she actually corrected Alex on the scenes and made them better. Very strong physically, but tends to over-act some scenes. She plays a good victim that fights back.
5. Alina - one of the first models I booked in my Cruel World custom videos. I liked how she didn't look like a typical malnourished Eastern European model. She could also act well on the small screen; very intimate portrayals. She played both sides of the equation - the victim and the evil torturer. I wanted to cast her again, but she became unavailable.
6. Victoria - long and lean and beautiful. She looks fantastic on film, so long as she doesn't honk.
7. Marie - I like that she is older and not a "girl". I would love to cast her as the evil professional torturing younger victims; possibly as a Dr. Squalus in a medical drama.
7. Ksenia - I used her once and she performed ok. Just ok.
Some pics below for reference. I'm also including one of the sketches I made with Alex to diagram how the stunt should be set up. Alex was the brainchild.
