Which are the best cities to shoot in north america?
 

Apart of anything near L.A.

I'm trying to figure out good cities for filming in. Places were there is very little trouble to find talent.

I've considered Montreal but it looks like a nightmare because the few agents there want to keep the prices high and charge a percentage of what I pay the girls. (I have a philosphy of negotiating out privately with each girl.)

I looked at Toronto but the 1 bukakake I tried to film there was a disaster. 1 man showed up from the 50 promised. (I was aming for 10)

I was considering Chicago and Vancouver BC.
Any other places I should be looking into?

If you're looking to shoot BDSM (I'm assuming that from the photo in your sig) you should check out the Tampa Bay area of Florida. There are several major producers there, and lots of local ladies who you might be interested in working with.

Any place where there isnt a lot of other people shooting.

Actually I don't film that stuff at all. I'm a semi retired pornstar turned video producer. I did that photo in my sig with Ken Marcus. Personally I'm really not into BDSM and wouldn't be able to make a decent product.

LOL...
I'm sorry for laughing honey. I'm in an area just like that and that philosphy just doesn't work. Best to go to an area where there is already some sort of industry. And liberal sexual attitudes.

I guess I'll bump it again

Miami / Ft. Lauderdale

miami, especially if you are interested in latina/black chicks.

sf bay area, pricey, but good for intellectual type, goth types, lesbians.

and of course LA.

Vancouver..definatly many hidden talents

I've found it best in the city I'm in, close to Toronto. Any place with lots of strip joints. Lots of women looking for money/independant deals. Goodluck.

nyc?

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i dont think theres any best place to shoot in north america. it's illegal in every state to shoot someone.... so perhaps try somewhere else

bump bump

IMO a bad "philosphy". Sounds to me more like you're hustling them with "package deals" - but again, this is my opinion. I wouldn't really know.

I will say one thing - I was never much of a fan of agent fees, but now I'm all for them...when a model isn't cooperating, it's so much easier to just call her agent than to try and deal with it yourself. It doesn't happen much on my sets, but when it does, it's worth every penny to call an agent.

And if the agent is working his/her ass off to get the model work, then they deserve the 15% (or so) they get from the girl.

i wouldnt go to canada if i was you.

I'm not trying to take a cheap shot at you....
But there is a saying...

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. And if you make your money in the jizz bizz. Well, even in the most tolerant and legal area you will still have to look over your shoulder for the cops.



In Montreal they want to charge ME the 15% and I say FUCK THAT SHIT! They can go back to finding hahahaha for Redlight I don't play that game.

I pay an agent a FLAT fee.
He gets the same amount regardless of what negotiations I make with the girl.

Because you see, unless the percentage is charged to the talent. It's a conflict of interest. As a business woman I am looking to cut my costs at every available chance. So yes, I am trying to get the girl for as cheap as possible. It's damn hard to do that if the guy brining the girl stands to make more too.

And speaking as former pornstar. NO snatch or colon is worth some of the rates a few people try to charge.

But on that note, most of the time I don't negotiate. I say what I want, how it pays. And the girl can take it or leave it.

I go where the money is.
And that can be Canada, Mexico, Botswana, Mars, etc.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=566429

expect some visitors at the airport

San Fernando Valley.
Porn Capital baby.

Some place other than L.A.
I just can't handle the traffic!

But I have to admit...
Just like Huey Lewis said, "I LOVE L.A.!"

Then just don't fucking drive. Live near your studio. Or do like I do and only drive in the mid-day or late night/early morning when traffic is light.

Oh honey,

I always live in my studio. Can't see a reason to spend money on two places. For me I think I could go back to L.A. but it's like pulling teeth with da spouse. For him, his idea of paradise is places like Iceland or France in the winter. IE: Dark, depressive and must have "archetecture" and "character."

I would like to beat him with a baguette some days. But he earns about 70% of the household income doing his "indy-art-crap films." (Too many hours inputed if you ask me.)

We do well in the NY/NJ area, not a ton of good shooters and talent rates are cheaper on this coast. Problem is there are no agencys out here to book girls so you have to find them all yourself. If your ever in the area to shoot hit me up i have a large studio to rent

You want to find talent easily but you don't wanna go through agents ? it won'T be easier in one city then another.

You can always deal with agents... in mtl. You just gotta give them your business and guarantee them a couple of shots and they'll give you better deals.

MTL is cheaper then LA and lots of other places still

I recoommand you hit Daniel from eromodels in montreal... he's great. All of his girls have training in front of hte camera, they know how to look at it and act... they have good attitutdes and act very profetionally... he's more then just a normal agent ;)

Well I used to run ads in the local newspapers. But you kind of have to be careful about what you say in it. Nude Figure modeling usually works and networking the men that want a shot porn is pretty good too. (Just tell them to bring you a girl)


Again, I have NO PROBLEM WITH AGENTS!
But I'm not paying a percentage fee or wait for girls to clear quarantine because I shoot condomless.

Just like South, Ben English, Spiegler, etc.
I give them their $100. And that's a flat rate regardless of what price I get the girl for.

So if I use one of their girls, I have no problems paying them.

Any percentage cuts they get should be from the girl. Not ME! Because if I got to deal with that crap I can just hope on a plane, go to Moscow, Philipeans, etc, etc, etc.

It would just be nice to settle down in one place and film. Not have to worry about airports, hotels, etc.

Try Vegas! :thumbsup

"Not waiting to clear quarantine" is just plain STUPID if you ask me ... :(

Well no one asked you.

But since you took the shot...

The Eliza test can take 90 days to show a positive. Do they lock the girl up that long?

And don't forget...

When the HIV broke out the last time in L.A. and the industry was on manditory shut down. Half the boys from Redlight District flew up to Montreal and continued filming. And you damn well know they didn't use condoms.

I'm sorry for being a bitch. But business is business.
And this business is the porn industry.

It is a sex industry and has tons of risks. (STDs, Law Enforcement, Pissed off boyfriends, etc)

So if you can't play with the big boys or stand the heat.
Then get out!

Because all you're doing is living off those that are willing to do the job.

for hardcore - LA is the easiest because it has the largest talent pool - then South Florida and Montreal. And Phoenix seems to be growing as a hardcore porn production center. That's about it.

if you're interested in vancouver check out my sig for some resources

Seems pretty solid lol.

I've heard a lot about Florida.
Is there a particular city? What are the average rates?

Come to ontreal and Il show up for a bukake shoot ASAP! Or any other shoot on that matter :)

I love Montreal... I truely do.
For 4 years I lived near the Préfontaine métro.

It's an AWSOME town for escorting. A girl never has to even place an ad and she can grab $200 to $300 an hour between 9am and Noon. Most other places you have to be running around with drunks at 3 am to get that.

But the last time I was in the city(1 Year ago)

The talent was niether abundant nor all that reasonable.
And when I have to produce, I shooting sometimes 2 gonzos every day for 2 or 3 months non stop.

My fear is if I manged to talk my husband into stepping foot on Canadian soil. I would run out of girls in a week.

And notabley I produce for some very specific weirdos. My titles include, "Road Side Piss Guzzlers," "Snorting Cum," and "Fist Fucking my daughter." (Not real incest)

I know I can get American girls willing to do some of this stuff.
But Montreal girls.... I don't think I can even get them to pee on camera.

Heh If you need some girls in Montreal that would want to do some weird shit like that Hit me up on ICQ 312-676-020

#1. Los angeles (porn valley. Van Nuys) Mostly DVD companies
#2. Miami (mostly web based companies)
#3. Las Vegas
#4. Phoenix (really growing in talent and producers)
#5. East Coast, New York (a lot of scammers there tho)

looks like you lost your sense of humor over new year :1orglaugh

say shoot to a police officer and they won't assume you mean PORN :upsidedow

You know what...
You're probably right about the loss of my sense of humour. I have been dealing with the "wannabes" where I am for soooooo long that I am at last Jaded. (**Go figure survived 3 years of L.A. and never got taken down. But France...**)

Add to that our problems with Marie Trembley, another north american porngrapher, and I'm a pissy bitch!

THis is shocking coming from a women that was talent! ... You wanted the big bucks when you shot for Bangtour (a low paying gig by todays standards) Now you've got the directors hat on, and want to cheap out on the model and cut out the agent ...

That's right after our conversation a few weeks back, I took the liberty to find out more about you ... I did not appreciate your Condsending manner so I wanted to know whom i was dealing with .. your reputation procides you and now I see why

Oddly enough I shot two feature adult prods in France and had not a single problem ... found the talent in france to be very Professional, Hot video followed all my sex capades for they're saturday night show ... HAd some great friends with the talent I shot with .. You've got some real gems there .. like Phil Holiday, P. St-james, Naomi, Tiffany hopkins, I fell in love with Estelle Desange an apsolutely wonderful person ....

I do not know on the U.S. as a whole, but depending on what you are shooting, I would say find a college town.

I do not shoot hardcore, nor M/F, but we do mostly 'fetish' things. We have more than enough girls contacting us to keep us busy, and we can't even get them all in within a given month!

We do not do the newspaper though. Business partner used to use his connections at strip clubs and so on before I took over the recruiting. I find a lot of them from online networking groups, and word of mouth spread it from there. It was a rough go at the beginning, but after we picked up some decent one's, and they heard about the 'referral fee' then they started doing a lot of the recruiting themselves. Bringing us more girls so we did not have to be as active is promoting, or recruiting.

Now it's on auto-pilot. I get plenty who contact me weekly, and am at the point we can turn away those just looking for money, and do not have an image that will sell, or not 100% down with what we do.

If you are in a college town, if you know what you are doing, and how to recruit, you will have more than enough hunnies contacting you all the time.

As for agents, and such. I do not deal with them. I have had them contact me any number of times, and people who want to be the middle man, or whatever. We stick to the business model, no matter how hot the girl is. This is what we do, and what we pay. Period. If they don't like it, keep steppin.

We have budgets, and we are not going to blow them for some girl who's marginally better looking dealing with agents, and fees. Fuck that!

:rasta

Go for Manhattan :2 cents:

I may be wrong.......but Randy Newman did I love L.A.


so actually I quoted two songs


I may be wrong (YOU MAY BE RIGHT LYRICS)......Billy Joel and I love LA (Randy Newman).....:1orglaugh

First of all who the hell are you? You claim to know me yet I have no clue who you are.

Second, I have a reputation of being a hard ass. I make a deal with someone and I expect them to stick to it.

Third, when I worked for Bang Tour, Rebbeca Lords introduced me to Patrice. He told me how much it paid and I accepted. There was NO negotiations. As for how much it paid... Trust me it wasn't that much.
NO BIG BUCKS INVOLVED AT ALL.

I also worked for HPG and that was half the price.

So don't talk to me about wearing the director's hat and being hippocrite.

It's called business!!!! In business I count every single cent!!

Let me tell you about Hot Video.

We called them many times to purchase advertising in their magazine. Never returned our calls. Had cash in our hands to purchase full page colour ads! But they didn't want our money.

Then one of their employees who was operating as a PIMP. Promised us to staff our production with girls. We trusted him!
Instead 1 week prior to the shoot, with locations booked, crews hired, etc. We had to fly Russian girls in to complete what we started.
You see he didn't want to do shit for us until he got his Dick Sucked. In fact that's how girls got publicity in Hot Magazine.

Next the webdesign company that agreed to develp the sites for us. Well their number 1 client is Hot Magazine. They wanted to take our footage and give it to them to use free of charge. We nicely explained.. "No thank you. We don't want to do business with Hot."
They forwarded our emails, stole footage from us, etc. And we were left with SHIT!!

Yea... the webdesigers are using footage without releases and bad mouthing us because we expected them to do their fucking jobs.

And if you are friends with these people you must be just like them.

So yea...
My reputation is bad. But thats because I do my fucking job and I don't kiss ass. And since I'm the person with the money... It's MY ASS THAT SHOULD BE KISSED!!!

We kind of work that way too...
But we found the newspapers first attract the attention of men. And men wanting their chance to be in porn will jump through hoops. So we tell them to bring a girl and we use them together in a blow job video or a 2 male on 1 girl scene. (But we don't pay him untill his wood is proven good.)

After that....
Just like you, "this is the job and this is how much it pays." Take it or leave it. I don't have a problem with agents, but it's a flat fee and we talk to the girl.

And if I'm dealing with an agent and I have a girl flake. I expect to be able to pick up the phone and say, "The job pays this amount and send over somoene."

I would be pissed off too... If I got treated like that. And Leggs is acting very professionally in how she conducts business.

Well this area is fairly conservative to a point. This is no joke, when I called the papers to advertise after taking over the recruiting, they told me they will not list "model ads" unless you take out like a half page thing, AND talk to their supervisor to make sure you are legit.

That was a huge red flag, and expense. So I passed on that.

I did what some of the others here recommended. The name's escape me at the moment, but I went for the underground scene. College newspapers, messageboards, MySpace, and other such networking sites.

I also gave a few "key" networking people the head's up in the dance clubs I used to go to, and they spread the word. The bad thing is when I would go to my old haunts, I was flooded with people annoying me all night showing me their feet, and asking questions. I do not mind so much to a degree, but a loud ass dance club's not the place to talk business. So I would flip em a card, and tell them to call me during business hours some other day.

But as the saying goes, it's easier to keep a model then find new one's. So we treat ours well, and then tell them if they refer others we'll pay them a 'referral fee'. Nothing gradious, but a little something extra as a thank you.

Through that, and keeping my networking profiles active, as well as a few other things. The models and girls contact me now. So I rarely have to recruit anymore. Just meet with them, sort out the flakes, and those who are not a good fit for our stuff.

I used to get contacted by a TON of males, but eventually I got the point across we shoot ALL FEMALE and NO MALES. So we are not interested. We did have some of those pimp hat types, who would tell us that they could line up the women for miles, and the trade off is we would have to show them the business, give them referral money, and all these other things.

Out of a few dozen in the past two years, not a single one could ever deliver what they claimed. So we always tell the pimp hats, you deliver everything you say you can, and THEN we'll talk. Until then, fuck off.

Same with referral for them. If they want an 'agent fee' or finders fee, then you get it from the girls. Not us.

We have some women who wanna 'negotiate' as well. They want more for less. We've also had some who want more money, but then will give us an all day shoot, etc. But I will not budge. I need a lot of faces to fill up three sites, and different looks, and whatever. Not a month's worth of reruns of the same girls.

We also have the strip clubs who always contact my business partner and want to work out some deal for cash. We get access to their girls in exchange for money. Again, I pass. We pay this, and the do this. Period.

Plus doing it my way, we get fresh college cuties for our sets. Not rundown half drunk, half stoned, rode hard, put away wet type of looking girls. When you deal in 'girl next door' type of things. They need to remotely look like they still have some innocense left. Not danced it away in the bar, or up their arm.

All that said, I would recommend to anyone getting into content providing to follow the advice given by others on here. Work the underground scene, college campuses, messageboards, chats, and networking groups. Sure it's harder at the beginning, but you just get a better group of girls to work with, and less flakes.

As for all the dudes or pimphats who claim they can deliver this or that. Just blow them off, or tell them the same thing I have. You deliver (fill in the blank) many girls who I can use, willing to do this, and whatever. THEN we'll talk about some form of compensation.

:rasta

Word of mouth advertising is the best! I pay a referal fee to any model that brings another. It isn't a lot of money. Less than what I would pay an agent but it is just a nice way of saying "Thanks!!"

You know that is the problem with this industry in a nutshell! Everyone and their fucking brother claims they can do more for me than the holy messiah himself. And I have that exact same point of view. Show me the results and then we can discuss money. Until then, you're just another shit talking asshole and I've heard it all before!!

What gets me is it is these same people that promise you the world and then get pissed off when you tell them you're not interested. Or if you do take a chance on them, they get angry when you do expect them to do everything they said claimed they would. Ultimately they all do the same thing and that is resort to slander and attack your reputuation. My only comment is "FUCK OFF AND DO YOUR JOB!!"

Like you, I make it very clear what I want and how much I pay. You can take it or leave it. When I was talent it was the same thing. The decision to work for someone at a certain price was up to me. When I worked for VCA I knew it was $1000 for anal with my husband, my call time was at 2pm but I wouldn't get home before 3 am. It's just the way they worked and I knew that. I even turned them down once. And I was known to do anal for $500 if I the entire shoot took less then 2 hours from the time I arrived on set. (IE: My call time is 1pm and I'm in my car driving home by 3:05pm.)

LOL I have a collection of photos of the run down, old and scary looking women. Like you, when I shoot I have a ton of work to do. We have several large markets that we distribute our DVDs to. Creating our product is crazy because we have flimed as many as 3 gonzos in a day. And filmed EVERY DAY, NON-STOP for 3 months.

Here is my problem with France....
There has got to be perhaps 12 quality girls out here and they are in EVERYTHING! These girls might be sweethearts and my husband adores Ana Martin. But most of them hardly have a Fresh Look and I can't make my videos with that few girls. Most don't have a flexiable look and once I have filmed them a couple of times... Thats it!!

And they all want to use condoms!!! My clients won't buy even 1 of my DVDs if there is a single condom in it.

Perhaps this country is great for making features and porn-chic. But I make the same return on my money with gonzo and have less headaches.
I mean do the math.... I can crank out a feature for between 20k euro to 35k euro and I make the same amount of money as if I made a 5k euro to 8k euro gonzo.
But it takes me 3-5 days to shoot it and long edit times. Whereas I can easily crank out a hardcore gonzo each day. When you look at it that way, I probably make more NOT fucking around with features.

And yea I'm going to stick to the underground. The newspaper ad is usually just to kick start us in an area.
But what I find is really important is the "cultural attidudes." In the United States, there is an acceptance to exchange sex for money.

Other countries.... Well....
Lets just say BLESS AMERICA!!!

Jackson, California

AZ baby, always warm and sunny

kentucky... yeeeehaaaaawww

all good advice here.

and use ONLY female recruiters, and treat the girls right and they bring their friends.