I think I’ve found my new favorite blog.
I’m so glad someone started this thread so I didn’t have to. I’d love to know more about the business models of online/streaming porn like aebn.net but I doubt anyone here knows. I’ll check out Christian later as he sounds interesting.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17033892/site/newsweek/from/ET/print/1/displaymode/1098/
Both SFW (if double-entendre heavy) pieces on the economics of the “industry” and how it isn’t a walk in the park to make a killing (if it ever was) based on piracy, ubiquitous free content on the Web, etc.
As to the “four movies a year” notion – I also suspect that’s very low.
Here’s a girl my former roommate was obsessed with (link is largely SFW but I’ve broken it because some of the titles are predictably crass puns):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665927/
By my count, her oeuvre include 23 films in 1999.
Abby addresses many aspects of the economics of internet porn in this thread:
I’ve always wanted to know how auditions work.
ROFL.
That’s both so horribly nasty and so very funny.
So sorry, my apologies, thank you for fixing!
So I wonder in these kinds of scenes, how does the “direction” work? Is it all planned out in advance like wrestling? The performers don’t talk, and it doesn’t seem like they could call out instructions.
I have this image of an amusing guy with a cue card behind the camera.
I think it’s more about what the performers are doing, what angle they’re at, whether you can see things properly etc. I guess it also depends on whether it’s a film with a plot/setting/theme and the people are actually acting (if so then you need to direct the acting).
If you’re watching some amateur or docu-style porn where they just point the camera at people fucking each other and make sure the camera gets a good view then the direction is more in doing some basic defining of what should happen before the camera starts rolling.