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| plandr Member 79 Posts 8/07 |  Posted - Jan 7 2008 : 7:21AMProducing/Directing, not as a performer. I'm just going to ask that anyone that wants to come in and tell me "not to bother", "it's impossible" or anything else of that variety kindly just not post in this topic. I respect your opinion but I'd at least like to know the facts. ^_^ I live in Illinois. I figure my best shot at making any kind of substantial profit would be through making a high quality web site, get linked by a major site in exchange for a portion of my profits and eventually branch out after the site can generate enough traffic on it's own and has steady customers. Maybe like abbywinters, hogtied or alsscan which I think started in similar ways. Some questions though: I know that most American porn is shot in California, but even assuming I lived there how exactly do you hire out talent as a new director. What do you have to do to be considered "respectable" enough to hire talent out? If that option isn't open to me, what are some other ways of finding talent to work for you? Is there a potential market for producing porn in Illinois? Is it even legal? Hell, I could write questions for days but what I'm really wondering is "Where do I start?" I have several thousand dollars in camera equipment (It's a hobby, I didn't get this stuff just for porn in case you were wondering), about 15 thousand dollars in expendable income (inherited it from an Uncle recently), I'm a college junior and I want to avoid a lifetime of cyclical employment. Best time to go broke is before you're 25. I want to start a business and I'm not afraid to bust out. Porn seems as good a business as any, I just need to do the research first and this seems like the best place to ask for advice. Actually, a few friends and I once shot a video (I think I made a post about it here a while ago) with some girls who wanted to have sex with us and one thing lead to another and we ended up filming it and getting consent etc. We didn't fill out the right forms though, don't have their information anymore and nothing came of it. I want to do it for real this time though. Hell, the porn market may be over saturated but I figure a great site with solid content can be extremely profitable. Like I said, I don't want to work for someone else for a living. I've got the time and the money so I want to take a shot at doing this and seeing if I can make something of it. Links, info, or anything you have would be appreciated. ^_^  [Link] |
| Dan Senior Member 2056 Posts 6/07 | Posted - Jan 7 2008 : 12:40PM I suggest you approach some strippers and massage ladies and offer them to be business partners of yours. They will share your profits. And if you are successful, then both you and the ladies will benefit from it. These ladies probably can find their own male partners that they will feel comfortable with. And perhaps that will make their sex acts more natural and hot, than those of the competition. Edited by - Dan on 1/7/2008 10:50:17 PM  [Link] |
| Porn Scout Deactivated User 3735 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Jan 8 2008 : 12:27AM This is the best way to go because it will give you a chance to see firsthand how the industry works while building a network of professional contacts. Also, it gives you a chance to see if this is even a business you want to be part of before you go and commit your own resources. Edited by - Porn Scout on 1/10/2008 7:07:53 AM [Link] |
| plandr Member 79 Posts 8/07 | Posted - Jan 9 2008 : 12:09AM I had an idea about procuring talent, but I'm curious about the legalities of it. In some Caribbean countries around the world it seems to me that I could probably find strippers (etc.) that I could film for considerably less than I would have to pay people in the U.S. I'm aware the escorts in the U.S. don't typically allow for filming if they aren't already in porn (and if they do it's normally for private use only and not the kind of thing that they'll sign a release over for). However, in say the Camen Islands, Brazil, certain European countries etc. etc. I'm thinking that for the right (and a considerably lesser) price I could find talent. It would cost less than getting strippers/escorts to do it at much larger rates, many of the women would be just as beautiful, and I suspect it might even be easier to find talent at that. However, like I said I'm not sure of the legality of selling my videos in the United States would be. Maybe if my place of business was legally based outside of the United States maybe, but even then don't I need a 2257 form? Might be a bit of a nightmare when dealing with people in another country as so far as confirming documents is concerned... So yeah, I'm really wondering if there is anyone who can point me in the direction of the legalities involved with this process. The rest I can wing, probably. But I want to cross all my eyes and dot my T's lest I be the next Joe Francis. -_- Thanks in advance everyone. ^_^ [Link] |
| Dan Senior Member 2056 Posts 6/07 | Posted - Jan 9 2008 : 11:42AM It may be like that in other countries too. That's why I suggest that you research well the country you go to for making porn films, before you go there. [Link] |
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| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Jan 9 2008 : 11:52AM Edited by - conquistador on 1/9/2008 11:53:43 AM [Link] |
| Kensington Chapp Senior Citizen Mine is the biggest. 610 Posts 7/07 | Posted - Jan 9 2008 : 5:37PM My unilateral, uninformed jackass opinion is as follows; (a)Get onto the likes of One Model Place .com and sort yourself out with a few hot chicks for "tfp" (Time For Prints)... basically means you take lingerie, glamour and "artistic" nude photos for giving her a set of decent pro-ish photos for her "portfolio". You're trying to build up your "portfolio" too. That's a resumé in photographish. Then fire up these badboys up on your own personal .com photography website (not myspace). Buy www.iamapornographer.com domain for $10 and buy the webhost for it for $10 a month. Build it yourself with one of the packaged programs. With this website, you'll have a pornodude@iamapornographer.com email addy, with which you can use to contact agencies right here and ask to book some semi-pro pornstar for a photoshoot (playing with herself only) for your website, www.iamapornographer.com. Build your way up from photography to hardcore fucking video. Climb the ladder, my son. Climb the ladder. OR (b)Get a damn good idea. A *damn* good idea. One that pornstars and "erotic" models (and plenty of escorts) will aspire to. Appeal to their ambitious side, with an artistic, erotic movie. No fucking, just a lot of simulated pelvis-rubbing and "Titanic" type sex. Lots of upper bodies. No penetration. No visible genitals. Once you have this made, you can use it as a reference of your skill and professionalism to hire proper pornstars from these agencies and let them fuck for your camera. OR (c)Some companies offer nobodies like us the chance to direct a porno. For a price. You choose the guys and the chicks, you write the screenplay/storyboard (yeah, I couldn't believe it either, pornos sometimes have these!!) and you direct. The guy and the girl ride in the company's studio, with their cameraguy filming (you might be allowed do the filming yourself) while you shout directions such as "say oh yeah baby, i like sex! thats it, and again!" Aaaaand hey presto, you just climbed the ladder to being set to make proper pornos. Remember a few things, though. > Every other guy in the world wants to get into porn too. Find something that sets you apart from the rest and flaunt it. > If you need any free help with your "project", just ask any of your male friends. Not only will they do it enthusiastically, they'll show up early and bring donuts for everybody. > Think with your head and not your cock. Don't worry too much, if you have moola and an idea and equipment, agencies will work with you, so long as you hire GUYS and girls from them. You want to avoid the cheap bait-n-switch of trying to get yourself laid by hot pornstars on film. Plus, there are thousands of young hot girls across the states who want to do porn, butt don't know how to get into it. You'll find these if you know what rock to look under. Butt hey, this is just, like, my opinion, maaaaaaan. Edited for some reason. Edited by - kensington chapp on 1/9/2008 5:40:41 PM [Link] |
| xxaru Member 128 Posts 6/07 | Posted - Jan 12 2008 : 2:55AM BTW, Porn Scout gave you some great advice. [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Jan 21 2008 : 10:15AM [Link] |
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