Originally Posted by Mutt

most of those guys shooting for the DVD companies have it almost as rough - they are given bigger budgets than web companies will pay for but the studios expect alot - not just vanilla B/G - they want B/B/G and G/G/B - that adds to the talent costs - they want anal, DP, DAP, all that shit and that adds to the cost of talent. they want locations and makeup and wardrobe to be done nice - the pretty girl stills sets .
the high end of the gonzo DVD game has a budget of $25,000 for five scenes - and i'm not sure how many these days when all DVD companies sales are down are giving their directors $25,000 budgets.

you are best off trying to do a deal with a good gonzo studio - cuz no web company is going to meet your price. one possibility is trying to retain the DVD rights to what you shoot - so the web company gets high quality exclusive content for their price and you get to sell the same stuff to a DVD company - i thought this would work but the DVD companies I talked to insisted that they also have web rights.

if you have possibilities in mainstream production - go for that. i think alot of mainstream production guys moonlight in the porn biz.