What goes into making a video?

[agentdowell]

I don't think the niche market problem is unique to any particular fetish, or industry in general for that matter. The variety of tastes by individual consumers compels suppliers to provide diversified products to suit those wants. That's why you see fifteen different kinds of jeans at a clothing store or 21 flavors of ice cream at a parlor. The supplier must extend the product variability to cover as many of the niche markets as possible. To deny this fact is to stifle the viability of the production as a whole.

There is a brewpub in my town that is going to go out of business because the owner is trying to keep his establishment 'classy' by discouraging the patronage of college students. I live in a college town. By doing this he is diminishing his weekend revenue by at least 80%.

Hedge your bets and diversify.

[MistressTaylor]

Originally Posted by filmguy

As per the debate over in the M/F lifts myspace video links thread, there doesn't seem to be a lot of clarity for some users as to why they SHOULDN'T distribute videos. I think the big problem that leads to copyright infringement is people just flat out don't understand the process that goes into making videos.

Thanks for asking this question. I went through this thread with my partner and have a few comments.

Rflcblue's rundown of the 10 bullet points to producing and distributing videos is as good a list as any I could make. Some of those points are weighted differently for different producers like any producer that exclusively distributes through clips4sale doesn't have to deal with payments, web design, hosting considerations and a few other factors. That comes at the price of 40% off the top going to clips4sale though.

Most of the models I use are professional fetish or porn models and their hourly rates are less then most Fbbs or Amazons but I have to pay agency fees of $100 - $150 per girl for each time I shoot her(What a racket the agents have). When I shoot an L&C handjob or anything else with hardcore the models expect to be paid a set amount for that scene regardless of how long it takes to shoot or how long the final video ends up plus the agency fee of course. To give you an idea of how much I have to pay them consider that the guys in those clips get $200 - $250 just for that one video.

One thing that I do more work on and spend more money on too is wardrobe and sets. Because I shoot so many different fetishes and some of those like BE and Gts Growth actually involve clothes being destroyed(so I often need 2 sets of identical outfits) I have to have complete wardrobe available for each and every model. Thats MUCH MUCH MUCH harder then it sounds. Think about all the different size and shape models I shoot and for each of them I usually go through 5-6 wardrobe changes minimum and that doesn't include all the clothes that they tried on but didn't like the way they looked in it. When I was in the biz and getting hired by different companies I showed up on set with 2 suitcases full of clothes so the directors had lots of choices. I guess those days are gone because most of the time the model shows up with just the clothes she's wearing or sometimes she'll have a bikini in her purse as her one piece of "wardrobe".

I have a few more replies to other posts in this thread but I'll have to do that later because I'm heading out to Goodwill and then the Outlet stores right now because of a shoot I have scheduled for tomorrow.