It also depends on what you can do on your own. Can you shoot, edit, get the lighting an sound right on your own? That'll cut your costs. Otherwise you'll need to pay someone. Plus there is the issue of equipment. Cameras and lights are seriously expensive. Talent is a big factor too. How many people you want in it? What are they gonna do? They get paid more for the amount they do, anal etc. It adds up fast.
if i had the equipement and was able to take care of all the sound and lighting, camera crew and editing would would it cost for say 3 scenes of two girls and a guy?
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Posted - Apr 23 2006 : 7:37PM
I think Christian's figure was pretty accurate, give or take...but that's just me? Some of what you mention Lance is the raw materials expense of lighting & cameras, which are expendable / depreciable over time, no?
Like Lance said, Nikko, what are you planning to have them do? Anal scenes, as a rule, don't run cheap...correct? Figure at least $2500-3000/scene for the performers alone in your scenario thus far, give or take. I'm not in the industry at all, rather just taking some figures that have floated around in the past.
now you are getting ridiculous....hookers? please. and i dont know if you are watching much porn, but all movies have at least 5 b/g scenes in them. no one would a movie with 3 scenes.
Agreed, being cost thifty is one thing but cutting every corner until you end up with a movie no one will want to watch anyway would be a big waste of time and money. IMO.
In Dave Cummings "how to make adult videos" program he says you can do it for as low as $10,000. I ordered his program and it's very detailed in telling you everything you need to start. If you're serious about it, you might want to check it out.
If I were going to do it myself, I'd lean more towards Christian's figure of $20,000. Maybe even $25,000.
Anyway here's a link to Dave's program. http://www.howtomakeadultvideos.com/
i have several porn films about an hour long like me so asian that have three scenes and then the two hour porn films are made up of five scenes. there are gang bang films like cluster fuck with just two scenes. i don't know how long the film blow bang lasts but that has three scenes.
a friend of mine shoot several films using hookers because he ran two brothels. it has been done before. the only problem is making sure they can act otherwise the day is wasted.
things work both ways if you look at a website called sophie's dream girls you will find all adult star that are avaliable as call girls.
where do these girls come from before moving into porn girls like jenna and jewel work as lap dancers and there will be a lot out there that worked as hookers before they started in porn. if they give a good performance which you would need to test in advance then why not.
remember when sex is your business whether you're a pornstar/escort/glamour model quite a few cases but by no means all the lines are very blurred as to there exact job title.
You could always just shoot single scenes and sell them to the lovely people at Xplor Media(Homegrown Video, Cherries..etc)
They offer sample contracts and are straight up with the type of footage they need. This is cool, considering you don't have to worry about editing or distribution, just get a hot girl and fuck her on camera
I was going to do this a number of times, but school is kicking my ass..and my wallet
that sounds great. i still beleive that the key is to shoot an inexpensive porn film which has either good performances or an original idea. even a really hot unknown pornstar could sell if promoted right using the web.
i've watched a lot of porn films where they have say ten+ people fucking all at once. add the cost of them performing anals as well and there just wasting money. sure they make there profits but would there profits have been less if they drop five people. you miss so much of the action. one good performance should make you want to watch it for the entire dvd. that's what every scene in the dvd should be like. i can only name a few that i have been that impressed with.
Its tough dude. Unless you've got some really creative ideas/good marketing your best bet is to move to Cali and shoot porn for a studio. Then you can start making your own movies on consignment and shit like that
back in the day when every one used vhs tapes and before the internet distributing was near impossible. today you can buy dvd duplicaters for £600 in the uk that produce 100 copies in an hour. all the other parts of a dvd can be purchased cheaply too. all the technology is out there at cheap prices. you can buy mini dv cameras that shoot hd which no matter what any purist says is impossible too tell the differnce between that and 35mm film used for blockbusters. you could have download streaming from a website. there are pornstar in the uk that sell the dvds they have produce directly from there website. there are millions of websites out there not controlled by the studios they could easily sell dvds. in the early days of hollywood you had 5 studios and no one made a film unless 1 of the 5 studios produced it. film makers broke away and no any one can make a film and have it released.
vivid, vca and wicked are the main studios but there are new studios beening launch all the time. maybe in america it's all handshkes and rackeets.