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How to shoot porn and erotica.
Just a few points. Today's surfer is totally spoiled for choice, he can find most porn everywhere with a few clicks. Free porn is flooded and shows no sign of abating. Showing him something that makes him stop and think he wants to see more of THIS work, is the key to making him pay for a membership.
Today getting models to open their legs in front of a camera is easy, getting them to open their minds has never been harder. The female model of today has few skills, she has been taught bad habits and is often flooded with offers of work. She often does not care if you shoot her or not. Your job is to get her to work the way the surfers in the niche demand.
So to the pointers.
1) Body language. Go pick up a book on it and read it from cover to cover, then read it again. So much of producing content relies on what the model thinks of you, even before she takes her clothes off, it's essential you pick up all the hints her subconscious is giving out by how she reacts to you. On a casting you can tell if she's going to be a good model or a bad one for you. Because the agent sent great pics of her by someone else does not assume she will react to you the same way.
Know what your model is thinking and know how to change her thinking to suit you and your work before the shoot starts.
Then use the body language tips you have learned in your shooting. The way a person stands, addresses us and thinks will make a difference to your shoot. REMEMBER THIS. Everyone is unique, what will turn me into your friend might turn someone else off. You need to be flexible enough to cope with the shy ones and the over confident. Plus a lot more personalities.
If you're producing content remember you're the boss. You pay the model. You can make her feel you think it's good to work with her, be careful you don't convey that she can do it as she pleases. You direct she does what you tell her.
2) Know your niche inside out, if you don't the guys spending $30 a month will. Study the niche and think to yourself what you're trying to create, if it's amateur it's about a model doing it for the fun of it for a friend, partner, lover or even someone she will turn into a lover.
Know every shot and angle you want to create, have examples of the pics or videos you want to create WITH her. Point out the vital points you need her to do to hit the niche and style on the head. If she does not do it with digital it's easy to stop and show her where she's doing it wrong. Or maybe you're doing it wrong. She can't work in a vacuum she needs you behind the camera motivating and guiding her. You shape the shoot if you're in charge.
If you want crazy amateur girls shots, be crazy and a bit lively yourself. If you want hot and erotic, be hot and erotic yourself, if you want flirt and tease flirt and tease her. Always respond to what she does. Never ever work cold and detached. But don't cross the line of having her think you only want to fuck her. Tough line but it can be done.
This is a very controversial point here and on many boards with computer operators. It's never a point with pornographers, we know what we need to go to get the job done. Here's the reason why you need to think about how you work. Porn shot cold is cold porn, porn shot hot is hot porn, what do you think converts the same traffic best?
A few pointers.
NEVER EVER tell a girl you only shoot porn for the money and it never turns you on. She will not believe you and think you're a perv or worse still she will think she can do it cold. Tell her, with a smile, you're a pervert who does not know one end of a camera from the other and yours does not work anyway. She will immediately think you're a cool guy and definitely not a perv.
Before she's naked pay her a compliment, can be her eyes, her hair or her shoes. Girls love compliments that are true. So when she's naked you can do it again. There's a big gap between telling a naked girl she looks good and has a nice rear to seducing her. You're a professional shooter, you've seen dozens of naked girls and it's your job to know what is good. Do it with a smile and say it off the cuff, then get on with setting the lights or giving her the outfit she's to wear.
When she's working if you want to both work cold and distant to sex then you can. It's not professional and it's not amateur. You need to motivate your model or models to give you the performance that will put you above the 100 other sites going for exactly the same traffic with exactly the same content, OK different girl or sofa but still the same content. For most models, give her the confidence in you that you will not jump on her and yet she is still attracting your attention and getting you going. This has worked on top models like Vida Garman and Lucy Gresty and the girl next door who was shy and nervous. GIRLS LIKE TO BE FLATTERED AND FLIRTED WITH.
There are a few who you will need to challenge and "throw down the gauntlet". They are very sure of themselves, they have been turning heads since they were 14 and think you are just another guy who will hit on them if they do nothing. Tell them something like the girl last week was doing something that was so great and she should try it. These are tough ones to crack and getting them out of their shell is a job professionals have problems with. The results can be spectacular if you do.
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