So You Wanna Be A Big Shot Gonzo Porn Director?
 

here's the brutal reality of shooting for the top gonzo porn studios. Tony T directs for Anabolic, one of the top selling gonzo studios in the biz.
A TGP submitter makes more than these guys.

According to Tony, his deal was to make movies with $23,000 budgets.

"After ten movies from each company, you start getting a dollar a tape after the eleventh movie. For the first ten movies you don't make anything on them. But you have to wait six months until you start getting your dollar a tape; and the only money you make is whatever is left over from the budget. But you can look at my movies and tell from each scene how much was being spent, everyone's rate. All our scenes are three on one, two on one. The girls charge $1500, $1600. There's agency fees, locations, makeup. Each guy is $600, $700. I've made movies taking money out of my pocket. Balls deep. They cannot say I did anything bad for the company."

Those are LA adult performer rates.......rates vary between markets.

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Sucks to appear to 'live the life' while not making shit.

you're paying too much for the models..

Thats why its better to shoot in Vegas. Way cheaper. Give me a $23,000 budget and I'll kick ass and take names.

it all evens out because the tgp submitter has to pay to fuck hot chicks

Is that true?! Cant be... what a *** ass... cant be true if some level involed in.

That was my thought... and I'm a webmaster only... seriously... 23 large?

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he gets $23k a scene as budget? jeezus... for $2300 i can get the same job done

it's all about being resourceful :)

Exactly.... 10% of the 23k we'll turn a huge profit here easy... :helpme

Damn, that is funny - anyone stupid enough to work for nothing and pay out of pocket for 10 movies gets what the deserve, the fucking of a lifetime courtesy of the fuck business.

NEVER WORK FOR FREE... and NEVER WORK for "later money"... because there is no later money.

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Alex

i'm going to start shooting in zaire with talent from the mu'buttu tribe.. they like it raw and will work for food! $23,000, my take will be $22,995 cos i gave them a happy meal!

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Not per scene, per movie, I could probably do it for around $10k though. He was doing b/b/b/g scenes etc.

That would cost me about $1,500 per scene tops, according to Mutt, Tony T pays male talent $700, wtf?!?!

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i didnt even smoke my joint yet and you guys have me cracking up

not per scene - per DVD - which is typically 5 scenes - and these days probably four of the 5 scenes are MMF or FFM - with anal - probably 2 scenes DAP - so a DAP scene - $1500 for the chick, $100 for the agent, two good stunt cocks, $500 apiece, location rental - maybe $400, makeup chick $250-300 - adds up. the way studios work is they give a shooter a budget, whatever is left over the shooter keeps - they expect good quality so you can't start using retread chicks you can get for $400 and lame stunt cocks for $200.

top male talent gets paid alot - we go up to $500 for certain guys.
the good black male talent make $700, they are in demand. we have a good one now - worried that he'll be out of our price range soon.

That is true. That is our only problem here in Vegas. Shortage of male talent. We can get girls very cheap, without agents, no location fee (we have a huge studio) etc.
Sometimes it makes me wonder why the guys in LA pay so much. Some travel to shoot, Montreal, etc. which is smart.

that's sad... makes you wonder on the quality of a movie if it's shot for half the budget :2 cents:

Not true at all. The quality is top notch. The talent is way, way cheaper here.
Period.

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it seems a lot of the high end male talent you only find on dvds and not on many of the exlcusive sites programs put out

Producers from Anabolic, Adam&Eve and others have rented my house for shoots...amazing how hard they work for so little $$$.

What are the rates out there?

these guys work dirt cheap because they wanna be around the sex. taking the money right of the shooting end of the biz :(

It's all about male talent you guys...that's it. Once you find a guy who can hold wood, pop, and has a huge cock, you've got a commodity. And eventually they find out. If anyone here's ever been on set, male talent works just as hard - and lots of times harder - than fem talent. And if you've got a big cock, can hold wood, and pop at the right time, then you're a minimum of $400 in LA. And it goes up from there. I've paid $1000 for male talent, and you know what? I'm about to do it again in about 5 minutes...I've got a shoot going off soon. And the male talent I'm talking about - the $1000 guy I'm about to work with - will convert your galleries like a motherfucker. So that makes him worth every penny.

a $1000 is it a black guy?

that's because the amount of money web companies are willing to pay for exclusive hardcore videos isn't enough to afford to hire those guys who want $500 minimum. occassionally we do hire them. if u look on Socal Coeds you'll see alot of Brett Rockman - he got too expensive for us.

Male talent isn't something that should be scrimped on - they are the key to making a scene hot .

If thats true he is doing something wrong.
VERY wrong.

I have never seen rates like that as well for male talent.....

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haha, i stopped shooting in LA strictly because of overpriced modeling fees.

clue: it is a big world out there

Umm what talent are you ganna use.. Eric, JD. what about female talent. Aside from a buisness license reason i left Vegas as theres nothing but crackheads there.

If it's that rough, why would anybody do it?

It's amazing that male talent makes that much. I always assumed their were line-ups of guys that would do it for free.

Never work for "later money" ? Projects take time and investement ... I don't mind working on something and spending money on something for a year if it's gonna make me good money at the end

The male talent rates seem on par and typical, and it is very true about the expense in black talent.
What I do find slightly humorous is some of the comments on how everyone could or would do it cheaper. Many are thinking with a internet mindset and not an industry mindset.
There is ALOT more to the costs than just shooting the scenes and many seem to be missing this point. Trust me the directors/producers hit up Las Vegas, Brazil, Eastern Europe, and so on. Twenty three thousand may seem like alot, specially when few do not get the demand for good male talent and the costs. Just a basic run down would give you a good idea though.
If your shooting a very bland girl/guy video at 5 scenes, nothing but vaginal sex.
Girl costs: 5 times 800-1,000 (4,000-5,000)
Guy costs: 5 times 400-700 (1,600-3,500)
Total: 5,600-8,500 leaving 17,400-14,500

Now you got 5 scenes or do you? If your shooting POV you do, otherwise figure in another 500+ per scene for a quality shooter. (2,500) Budget left (14,900-12,000)

Not a bad amount or is it?
Subtract agent fee's say 100 per girl or another 500.
Well do not forget the following expenses:
Traveling expenses, Editing each scene, Making trailers, DVD authoring, Box cover design, Replicating the DVD's, Insert printing, and DVD blanks.
Make to many copies and you loose money, do not make enough and the stores have to reorder and you need to get more made which costs money.

Oh and do not forget that you will want trailers for your next movie on your current movie, so you better already have that shot right?

Then your titles get shipped off to the distributors, who then ship them to the stores which many are on a 90-180 day net deal with the distributor so you do not get paid until the distributor does, and well sometimes the stores are not exactly paying promptly either. Toss in the element of piracy and so on and well it gets very unpretty.

Great Post.

Thanks.
Often humors me when some people forget the other details envolved and think using an internet mindset which has nearly super cheap distribution and no printing costs.