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Old 03-19-2005, 11:18 PM  
Paul Markham
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Nice clip, location and girls, but the one staring off into space needed you to stop and tell her not to.

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I'm at home and not rushing off to the office to stick up a sample. The reason few have samples could be that the absolute minimum you need to shoot this is a VX2000 and I would say that is not enough. Better would be a pro camera. Then you need about 4-5 Red Heads, with gels and a lighting guy. Then a pro make up artist and a crew of at least two people plus cameraman.

Then models of this quality are $1,000 a scene plus the agents 20%.

So it requires a big investment besides the skills and knowledge of porn to shoot a scene at this level. Simply put the Internet today is not the place to sell that product.

As Quiet says this level is hard to find and if you do find it the guys who produce it are not cheap and if they are not paid the right amount they walk away. Because there are plenty of porn companies who will employ them.

The Adult Net is new and few of the players have any idea what is involved in producing this level of porn. It has for years mostly been a cut-price product and producing content for it has to be done with that in mind.

If I shoot a good couple?s (BG or GG) set for a magazine I can sell it around the world for up to $10,000. This allows me to spend money to make sure the set is right. But if I shoot a couple?s set for the Internet the most I will make is around $2,000 (40 sales @ $50)

Today the video is an add-on at the end and doubles the ROI and few complain about the quality. Those that do don't understand that the money involved selling a higher quality product does not warrant the extra work.

Before I'm a pornographer, photographer, distributor, I'm a business man and I know that if I sell an average solo girl $10 set 100 times I make more profit than a $50 good boy girl set sold 40 times.

Also the comment about filming an apple to show quality is revealing of your porn knowledge. Shooting porn is a lot more difficult than shooting an apple.

Getting the lighting, sound, and image quality right is the simple bit. Shooting two people having sex and turning it into a PORN scene is the hard part. You need to know how to handle models, know the sequence, angles, close ups required to make it look like the people on the screen are hot bitches fucking their brains out and not paid models going through the motions.

Few have addresses my comments that this quality of video is readily available from a lot of firms. Shooting in-house or buying outright exclusive rights world or country rights. Just that today few of them see the Internet as an avenue to sell their products.

The reason is some cable/satellite porn and distribution companies will not buy a product that has been on the Internet. Look at the revenue to be earned selling this quality to the cable and worldwide retail market and you will see why there is little high quality on the Internet.

Well that was today and yesterday. Tomorrow it will be different. Because as the Internet speeds up more established porn companies will come into this side of porn distribution, Private just announced their new affiliate program. So expect to see more of this quality and surfers demanding a better product in the future.

Quiet said it all.

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I built a buffer of over two years of exclusive content at one point, because I was always afraid it would not last forever (ie: being able to get the production values that I wanted, reasonable costs, etc). and it didn't.
The guy producing it eventually realised he would earn more elsewhere or just moved out of the business and was tough to replace.
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