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Originally Posted by Hank_Heartland
Pls tell me this is a fake nick and this thread is a joke 
1st, your attempt at marketing yourself to the adult industry sucks and you show no understanding of the market you are trying to reach. Go back and research some of the people on this board as they are better educated than you and have been or are just as successful in mainstream as they are in adult!!!
2nd, you don't want to be in this business, you just want financing from this industry, so you will never do anything in adult that will be any good or be a success because you are here for the wrong reasons...Go to mainstream and beg for financing where you want to be 
3rd, in your proposals A & B you don't know what you are talking about as shooting good adult scenes is more than just shooting a few sorority sisters who think they want to get into adult for kicks. And fyi, Mr. Skin was a very very successful company long before Knock Up came into being, not the other way around...That's why the Knocked Up folks came to them in the 1st place!!! You are talking about doing it the other way around, ass backwards...BTW, I know this from experience 
Finally, I suggest you retract the statements you've made in this thread, do some research, get with someone from the industry who can help you draft reasonable offers, get an attitude check and try again in 15 to 20 years after you have learned something |
No joke at all.
First, I have no desire to market myself to the adult industry. It's not entirely impossible to be as successful in both markets but from the looks of much of the content shot today, many porn shooters could not successfully transition to mainstream but many mainstream could just transition to porn. It's like shooting porn is complicated or that there is a ton of undiscovered ways to shoot new and innovative content, hence much of the content looking the same across the board (save for a few talented and creative directors).
Second, while I am a mainstream artist, I have not entirely ruled out a career in adult. If it proves to be more lucrative, who knows. I do not want financing from the "industry", I am looking for a partner that sees the bigger picture. Furthermore, there are NO right reasons to be in adult. Everyone gets in it for whatever reasons. If there was NO money in it I doubt many of you would be in the "industry" today, hence why many have entered and left the "industry" since its inception.
Third, again, shooting people with or without clothes is a simple concept that applies to both. The talent is being able to find a compelling shot to satisfy the viewer, with or without clothes on. While Mr. Skin may have been successful prior to Knocked Up, they enjoyed far greater success because it was included in the movie. That is advertising that you cannot get just anywhere.
There's no need to retract any statements I made. I don't tell designers how to design just like I would not take criticism from those that do not have the same experience in my skill area. It would be the same as a plumber telling an architect to design a house. With the ridiculous amount of money being spent on dead traffic, this deal is no more risky than buying potential buyers/traffic.
Now I realize you are trying to be informative and helpful, albeit sarcastically at points, one has to wonder why the industry is hurting if creating such great porn is such an art form that has seen the amateur/girlfriend/etc... niche putting much of the professionally produced content to shame in terms of excitement and sales. This is not meant as any sort of disrespect to professional content producers but it doesn't support your position well when any Joe can pick up a camera and shoot a video that people love to watch. At the rate adult is going, I would not be so sure that it will be around the way it is now and has been in the past in 15-20 years.