I have shot 2 days a week 2-3 live shows a day a for about 5 months and I currently work on a few of my friends live shows. I have about 14 month experience working on live shows.
I cant give specifics on what shows i did and who i currently help with their shows, but there is a lot to know and you can loose a lot of money really fast. There are only a few formulas that work and even those don't rake in the money.
You are riding the line of making a good show versus shooting good content. The harder you work on the quality of your content, the lamer your live show will be. The better your show is the lamer your quality of content will be.
Live shows need fan and model interaction to do well. And to shoot a good scene, you need to not fuck the mood and vibe up between your models with stupid fan requests and dumb questions. Trust me, fans say and request some stupid ass shit.
In short; if you do a show for the fans, you will not recover you money that got put out for the shoot.
My very best advice schedule one shoot a week where you stream to your site a live shoot and have the Q and A during makeup and 10 min. before your shoot. Shoot as you normally would without interrupting the scene. The key is having a good moderator and a good camera "B". It might help out on member retention, but it will not increase sales.
Sorry about not giving names and specifics, but I Hope that kinda answers a few questions.
