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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
For many reasons.
First has to be budget. You simply can't make a silk purse with a sows ear budget. No matter how good a shooter is, if he's working on a shoe string. He's not got a lot of time, money or incentive to produce great porn.
Second has to be models. For a number of reasons. They have seen porn on the Internet and think what they saw is what is right. Often it's not. It's faked badly and shot on a shoestring.
Also their attitude. Todays models are far harder to work with. Prior to the Internet and the deluge of porn production if a model fucked up or failed to deliver the goods, she was soon out of work. Unless very very beautiful. Today there are too many places she can work badly and not have it effect her career.
And many have picked up bad habits from shooters who don't know better or accept them.
If the model wasn't doing it right, there was no, "Shooting something so the day isn't a complete loss." It was "Go home.". Because paying her/him and the film wasn't worth it. Best to lose the M/U fee, Boys/girls fee and other costs than add to the disaster throwing more money after lost money.
Even with digital we would just give up and call it a day. Assuming we couldn't turn a couple shoot into a solo shoot.
The ease of selling. This has a lot to do with it. When selling a set to an editor he had 8 slots to fill and often 50+ sets to choose from. If your work wasn't good, not good enough, it didn't get accepted and even then it might not get used. We were paid on publication. What is accepted today would never get accepted by an editor.
Similar goes for the good video markets. They had more than enough work submitted to them. So if it wasn't good it wasn't accepted.
It's easier to sell today and harder to produce good work.
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Actually is this a negative post or a positive one?
Maybe if a newbie see it he will realise some of the things required to create good porn.
A decent budget. No matter what the idea is if you don't have the money to put that idea into actual good content. It is very likely to fail. AND if the idea is something that can be shot on a shoestring the odds are it's been done.
Models. Great ideas, great budgets can all fall down if the model is simply not into it. Good porn is largely about about the models pleasure, unless it's Sade Masochism or like Paul Little shoots. A model going through the same old routine she has done a dozen times before can get boring.
Ease of selling. In reality it's never been harder to sell porn. Not for producers selling to sponsors. But for sponsors selling to members. Ratios suck, retention largely sucks and rejoins aren't great. Unless the MEMBERS area stands out.
Is easier to open a paysite today? YES?
Is it easier to make a profit from one? No, in fact only a fool would think so. It's the toughest time porn has ever had.