Part 4
The young women looked at each other, slight frowns on their faces. Anna says, "This one is Mr. Johnson's idea." Then, under her breath, "Of course."
"Okay," Tim said, ignoring Anna's obvious discomfort, "this will be a new take on an old idea. We're having an office party of some sort, maybe a celebration of landing a big account. And somehow it turns into us all playing a game of cards, and then into a game of strip poker."
Shawna and Danielle exchange glances, and Anna rolls her eyes, but Kurt is all in.
Tim continues, "Of course I put the Naked Attraction on, and the girls start getting turned on, and they start losing on purpose. I can see some good gag shots for this one: the camera can look over each woman's hand, showing some pretty decent cards. But when it's time to draw, they discard good cards and keep bad ones. Maybe we could show me getting a mediocre hand and starting to sweat a little. But then at least one of the women always manages to come up withβ"
"A worse hand," Kurt jumped in, completing Tim's thought. "I love it! They're all playing to lose, so they can attract your attention."
Anna said, "This one seems a little more iffy to us. If we're actually getting naked in a poker game, we don't see how we can be on camera without showing our nudity."
"And that's not what we've agreed to," Mia said.
"If I got naked on tv, my family would kill me!" Julie added (as always).
"That's not going to be an issue," Tim insisted. "Kurt said that they could do a lot with editing. They'll use camera angles to suggest that you're all getting stripped, but without actually showing anything."
"That's right," Kurt said. But Danielle and Shawna looked a little skeptical.
Tim didn't seem to notice, and plowed ahead. "I was thinking of a good gag for the end of the commercial. The camera could be above the table, and slowly pan from one pile of women's clothes to another on the table. But when it got to mine, there would only be one of my shoes, or maybe a shoe and a sock."
Kurt was enthusiastic. "And then maybe it could switch to a level shot, panning up from the clothes to each of the female players. They could each be naked from the waist up, covering their breasts with one hand and holding their cards with another."
Anna was scowling, and the three other young women were frowning a little.
"Wouldn't that be showing too much skin?" Kaitlyn asked.
"No," Tim said, "like Kurt said, you'll be covering your breasts. Nothing important will show."
"Easy for you to say," Shawna said. "It might work better if we at least suggest that you could lose, just to build the tension."
"Yeah," said Julie. "At least we should get to take your shirt off."
"And the pants might not hurt either," Anna said. "You could be wearing some kind of comical boxers or something."