Love, Comment, Subscribe (Ponto Beach Reunion #1) by Cathy Yardley

Author:Cathy Yardley [Yardley, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542030007
Google: 57FCzgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1542030005
Goodreads: 57047853
Publisher: #PrB.rating#4.14
Published: 2021-10-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

It shouldn’t be this damned difficult, but here they were, Tobin thought with a scowl. They’d finished the Ouija board segment and shut the camera down, and now he was setting up for the next section, the Bloody Mary thing. Then they’d break down and set up the camera over again with the third game. It was a pain, certainly more so than his usual game playthroughs. Still, it was easier than the beacons shoot, and the editing shouldn’t take that long. He hoped.

Lily was sitting on the closed toilet, watching him with sleepy, heavy-lidded eyes as he struggled, yet again, with the light balance.

“What are you trying to do?” she asked around a yawn.

“Well, Bloody Mary is usually played somewhere dark, with a mirror—hence the bathroom,” he explained, as he futzed with the aperture on the camera and adjusted the frames per second again. “The dark is what makes it creepy. But the damned light sensor’s not working if I have the light too low. There’s no point in doing this if we can’t, you know, actually see it on the video.” He grimaced. “And I don’t want a mic in the shot, either. Gah!”

She snickered. “I’ve never done anything in the dark,” she said.

He smirked at her. “Oh, really?”

“Perv,” she said, but there was something amused in her voice, and he shot her a grin. “I mean, with makeup or clothes, you want to show them to their best advantage, which means showing them in plenty of light, especially natural light if you can get it, but regulated artificial light otherwise. That’s crucial.”

“Huh. But most people don’t have those kinds of ideal conditions, do they?” he asked, as he lit a few more candles and then looked at the video feed. Too slow, damn it . . . it was kicking up all kinds of visual noise, making the background look pixelated and messy. Totally amateur. He sped up the frames-per-second rate a little, trying to eliminate that, and the scene went darker. He growled softly in the back of his throat, tugging at his hair.

He was frustrated. He’d thought this was a brilliant idea as he was falling asleep, and if he hadn’t promised Lily that he was going to keep to her video schedule, he would’ve put this idea in a “marinate” file—give himself a few days to a few weeks, or longer, to figure out whether the idea would work at all, and then the mechanics and setup. He didn’t do full shot-by-shot setups or anything—he did a lot of simple stuff like playthroughs and whatnot—but for skits and silly stuff, it needed more thought.

There was a good chance this wasn’t going to work, he thought with irritation. Which would mean that they were wasting their time. The Ouija board bit was kind of funny, but sort of limped along. He needed to figure out a way to punch things up if he was going to post this tomorrow. Otherwise, it would just be some lame video of him and Lily, and that wasn’t going to help either of them.

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