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I see now what you're saying. $1,000 a day means you have to have that money and know you can make it back. I was in thatituation when I started.
A good girl shoot for a day on film could cost a lot more than $1,000. Because the model would cost $500, the film/developing $20 a roll and we would shoot at least 25, sometimes 30 so $500 for film. Then there was make up, $200, underwear, clothing, props, sometimes even a location. To spend $1,000 on a shoot day was normal, to spend $1,500 was not unusual.
Then you had to wait 4-6 months to get paid.
But here's the good side. Would shoot 3 teen sets or two glamour sets. Each set was worth $1200 on the UK market, then $1800 on the US market, EU was only worth tops $600 to $1,000. but a good set would go to Japan and/or Australia.
Then there were second rights, this is why I can't believe in exclusivity being the only way to sell. A year after the set was published in the UK and the US we could sell it again. Big second rights buyers were Swank, Crescent and Fantasy publications in the UK. This would pay anything from $400 to $1200 a set, second rights could be sold again and again.
The downsides were simple. Only shooters at the top of their game could compete, editors did not buy on price, the market has not had a price rise in 12 years in fact some pay less now, you had to wait for your money but once it started to flow it did very reguarly. And above all it's a shrinking market, the most sets I could sell a year was 120 and the Internet is the future.
We still shoot for magazines and do well, but concentrate on the non exclusive content providing because this is where the money is today for porn producers. Tomorrow it might be in a paysite or paysites.
But do you think I would jump from that business to this for $500 a set?
Learn your craft, develope and put enough aside to fund your own shoots and see if brokers can get more for you than exclusive sites are giving. At the moment they seem to be saying they're doing great, while screwing the suppliers of the very thing they need the most.
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