"Mike, here's your costume." Jana handed Mike a hanger with a tuxedo in it. "Try not to look to crumpled just yet. Peter thinks that the contrast of your tux and our costumes will go well."
Mike took the hanger, shrugged and walked off to get changed.
Heather and Jana were talking in low tones. Dave walked over.
"Looking forward to this, Dave?" Heather asked, grinning wolfishly. "After all, it's not every day you get to see a swimsuit photo shoot."
Dave grinned. At that moment, Peter entered through the main door laden with gear, and much setting up ensued.
They set up a large clear area, put down white sheets and placed a white backdrop behind the area and on the sides. Peter set up flashes around the area and had several on his cameras.
"Now, we're after a sexy look here - but we want to emphasise the magic. So I propose we get into our costumes and do a performance for you. You can direct whenever you want. OK?" Jana looked at Peter and the now tuxedo-clad Mike.
The both agreed, and the girls trooped off to get changed.
Minutes later they re-emerged, each dressed in a semi-sheer body suits that covered their arms and torsos (barely) but left their legs bare, high-heeled white shoes, a tuxedo jacket and black top hats.
"OK, a few standard shots first."
Peter had the girls crouch on either side of Mike, showing off their long legs, and letting their jackets fall open. He took several shots.
[ Shot of Mike standing wearing a tuxedo. On his left is Jana in a body-suit tux, and on his right Heather wears a similar costume. Both girls are crouching, showing off their legs. ]
"OK, now let's do some illusions."
Mike looked at the girls costumes and thought briefly. "Dave, bring on the third one we talked about."
Dave wheeled in a table at about stomach height with a small box sitting on it. Mike removed the box and handed it to Jana. Peter was taking shots fairly frequently, and Dave was reloading his spare camera as he went.
Mike walked to the middle of the table and unclipped part of it, which swung open, revealing a circular hole. "Heather..." Mike said, gesturing at the home. Somewhat nervously, Heather walked over and knelt so her neck was in the hole. Mike closed the front of the table again, and attached a padlock.
[ Shot of Mike standing to the left, with Jana in a skimpy body suit & jacket to the right, Heather similarly dressed, kneeling with her head above the table, and her body below, hands gripping the front of the table. ]
"No, no." Peter exclaimed. "The assistant in the illusion should be wearing something different. Heather, go and put on a strong coloured bikini - green or red."
Mike undid the padlock and opened the front. Heather quickly changed and returned wearing a neon-green string bikini.
"OK, now sit on the table."
[ Shot of Heather on table, right side toward camera in a classic pin-up pose, legs bent and her body supported by her right arm behind her. Mike stands at her feet, and Jana at her head, still dressed in their tux-like costumes, and Jana still holding the box. ]
"Mike, do you have anything dangerous looking - blades or something?"
Mike answered that he did, and Peter told Heather to hold them.
[ Close up of Heather on table, right side toward camera in a classic pin-up pose, legs bent and her body supported by her right arm behind her. Her left arm hold a 1' square razor sharp blade so the light glints off it dangerously. ]
"OK, let's go again."
Heather knelt under the table again and was locked in. Mike then placed the box over her head, and Jana fetched the two of the 1'-square metal blades. She banged them together a few times with a loud metallic ring.
Mike flicked the door on the front of the head box shut, and took one of the blades from Jana and started to slide it into the table under the box.
"OK, hold it there." Peter moved around and arranged Jana beside Mike, as Mike held the blade half way in.
"Guys, this isn't really comfortable!", came Heathers voice from within the box.
[ Shot of Heather's green-bikini clad body below the table, from 45 degrees, Mike with a blade half-decapitating her, Jana looking on grinning holding the other blade. ]
"OK, go on."
Mike slammed the blade home, took the second and pushed it in above the first and into the base of the box.
Then Jana walked over and picked up the box once again, posing for the camera.
[ Shot of Jana holding the box again. Heather's bikini-clad body is still below the table, but her head is gone. Mike is trying to look mysterious to one side. ]
Mike wheeled a metal stand with a flat plate on top in, and Jana placed the box on it. She flicked open the door, revealing Heather's first astonished, and then smiling face.
[ Shot of Heather's head inside a box, some 6 feet from her bikini-clad body.]
Jana laughed "I guess you got the short straw this time!".
Behind her, Dave wheeled in a second table. "Time for another costume change, Peter".
"Absolutely. How about blue?"
Jana turned and looked crestfallen before walking off to get changed.
[ Shot of Jana in a bright blue triangle bikini between Heather's body and head. Jana looks somewhat nervous. ]
Jana was quickly locked into the second table, and a blue box placed over her head. The two blades were inserted, again with a pause for photography.
[ Shot of Jana's body in a skimpy blue bikini below the table, Mike inserting a blade into the base of the box over Jana's head. ]
Mike picked up the box and placed it on a second pedestal, before moving between the two tables and taking a bow.
[ Shot of Mike standing between two tables. On the left is a lovely women's body dressed in a green triangle bikini. On the right is another women's headless body, somewhat more buxom, in a blue bikini. Mike rests his arms on two boxes, the left holding Jana's head, and the right holding Heather's. ]
Dave walked into the cleared area in, now also in a tux, and picked up Heather's head, at the same time as Mike picked up Jana's, both closed the doors on the boxes as they did so.
Mike placed his head on the left table, Dave his on the right, and they quickly removed the blades, undid the padlocks and opened the doors.
[ Shot of Mike standing to the left of Jana's head attached to Heather's body in a green bikini, Dave to the right of Heather's head on Jana's blue-bikini-clad body. ]
"What the hell just happened?" exclaimed Peter?
Jana and Heather grinned at his expression. "Cool trick, huh?!"
[ Shot of Jana and Heather holding hands, with Mike and Dave on either side. Jana wears a green bikini and Heather a blue one. ]
Dave and Mike wheeled the two tables off to one side, and pushed on a large covered box, about 5' high. Jana pulled the cover off it, revealing a cage, with metal bars comprising the top and sides on a thin timber base. The cage itself was on legs about 1' high, with casters on the bottom.
The two girls climbed the sides of the cage and lifted the lid, which was hinged.
[ Shot of Jana and Heather standing on the ends of the cage, grinning playfully. ]
The two girls got into the cage, and Mike shut the lid. He secured it with a padlock.
[ Shot of Heather, in a blue bikini playfully pawing at Mike as he stood with his back to the cage. ]
Dave and Mike lifted the cloth and threw it over the cage, covering it completely.
Mike tapped the side of the cage three times, then yanked the cloth off, revealing two large spotted leopards now prowled the cage!
Peter took a few shots with and without the two men.
"OK, that's enough of the Siegfried and Roy routine, on with the show!" he commanded.
There was a sudden flash, and with a loud clang, the sides of the cage fell outwards. As the smoke cleared it revealed Jana and Heather now sat within the cage wearing skin-tight leopard skin body suits.
[ Shot of Heather and Jana posing in the cage. Both girls have their bodies rotated 45 degrees to the camera, and are looking directly at it, showing off their leopard-skin covered legs. ]
Both girls were helped down from the cage, and the pieces moved away.
Once the area was once again clear, Peter asked if there was time for one more trick before lunch.
"Nope, let's grab an early lunch, then we'll have plenty of time for this afternoons entertainments."
Everyone bustled off to get changed and then went to lunch.