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Old 03-21-2011, 03:08 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
I never disagreed with you one bit.

Matter of fact it is ONE of the tools in my arsenal of success: Giving our members EXACTLY what they want in a porn scene with a whore with giant tits. Doing all the things right that I feel others do wrong.

Which is why I am going to up my game on the technical side of the shoot. I think you are 100% right on that.

In my case, I'm only debating you on how to market porn. It's something I'm REAL good at. And I just don't want someone like you...whom I do respect...to lump me in with a bunch of cookie cutter tgp script sites.

I just wanted to try and explain what I do and how I do it in hopes of getting a bit of your respect, and maybe even giving you some different ideas on how to market.

Not sure I am gonna succeed on either count. But at least I did take the time to give it a shot.

And you still won't get a single bad word out of me in disrespect towards you.
Upping the technical quality of your porn is something anyone can do. That's one of the reasons so many sites have the same to similar quality of content. Anyone can buy the latest camera, good lights and learn how to use them. Upping the PORN quality of porn is a lot harder.

It needs a shooter who can operate a model/models. Knows how to direct them, knows how to pull the best out of them and knows which ones to shoot and which ones are a waste of time. No matter how good your equipment is a crap scene is a crap scene even if it's shot on equipment more at home in a Hollywood studio.

Then there's the task of knowing angles, how and where to shoot, looking at a scene prior to shooting and seeing the problems, like not shooting a 3 girl lesbian scene in a room too small for it and the bed with a large bedstead at the bottom of the bed that will hide the action and distract the viewer.

Knowing not to shoot countless pictures all the same, not to have girls in a couple scene grinning into the camera time after time, using the image set as a way to get the models or models into what they're going to do on video or even bond and warm up each other. Also good at showing the models the positions for the video.

Then when the shooter shoots is it shows him what to do on the video, the problems he might come up with, the angles he needs to cover, the shots he needs to get and how to construct the video scene.

All this is second nature to professional shooters with years of experience. They learnt it by making mistakes, having them corrected and learning how to do it right. There's no college or book that teaches to shoot porn, because it's like teaching someone to play football without letting them onto a field.

The bigger question is why didn't more of the richer players employ better shooters. So separating themselves from the Ma and Pa side of the industry?

Why did so many fill their sites with content shot by people who couldn't sell to a better paying market?
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