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Originally Posted by Robbie
It's not a case of "can't afford" in my opinion. Over the last decade as the internet took over and DVD sales have fallen to nothing...PLENTY of internet companies have made hundreds of millions of dollars while DVD companies are going broke.
Also DVD studios are barely shooting anything. They can't afford to.
Finally, remember that any product or service is really only worth what someone will pay for it.
DVD companies were used to shooting one project at a time. 5 or 6 scenes over a couple of months of work.
Internet companies like Naughty America shoot 4 or 5 scenes everyday, 5 days a week. If they paid a guy some crazy amount to shoot that, they would NOT make one penny more.
So whether or not Paul Markham or any other old school "skilled" shooter shoots it...it really doesn't matter.
Not being disrespectful to your ability Paul...I literally have no idea what you can or can't do. I've only seen some pics you've posted of your work and it was okay.
In the end...the GIRL who is fucking is the one who is gonna sell. I don't care if Paul is shooting it or if Fatfoo is shooting it...if the girl is a dead fish, then you have a shitty scene.
Now give both guys a girl who loves sex and "shines" on camera...and you will have a scene that will make my cock hard. Paul may set his up "nicer", but my cock doesn't care about that.
To me...and from all the work that I have done...the GIRL is what sells. She has to have that passion and personality, and of course the body and face that makes people want to fuck her.
And that's where a good videographer/photographer/director/producer DOES make a difference by creating the proper environment for the girl to be able to be unleashed in her raw sexuality.
But do I think that over-paying someone to shoot a scene equals more sales? No. Not at all. As an affiliate I have seen it with my own two eyes.
One minute I'm making 20 grand a month as an affiliate selling porn. Then BangBus came along with a guy using a shitty consumer camcorder fucking amateur bitches in the back of a van while everybody is giggling and talking...and BOOM...I'm making 100 grand a month and "reality" gonzo porn was born.
That just doesn't lie. People were always WANTING to see real sex. But Porn Valley (as always) didn't understand what the rest of the world wanted. So they gave us the dumb scripted and lame porn that I grew up on in the 1970's and pretty much ignored it as a young man in the 1980's.
And pornographers around the world followed their lead because they thought Porn Valley knew best.
Well...10 years ago when that little company in Miami released Bang Bus and later Milf Hunter...it showed just how out of touch that L.A. and porn valley really are with the majority of people's sexual desires in this world.
And today? I bet Ernesto could buy and sell most of Porn Valleys DVD companies...but why would he? They don't sell.
Could he afford you Paul? Yes. He could also pay somebody $20,000 to mow his yard. But why would he? The results are going to be the same in the end. Why overpay for a service?
I know that's not what you want to hear. But as a former content company owner...I saw the writing on the wall back in 2002 and sold mine. It was obvious that porn companies were all going to start shooting their own content.
And quite frankly...that is for the best. I'd rather watch a teen scene that is shot by someone with a genuine love of teen. Or BBW. Or Milf. Or any niche. Much better content than some content provider who may or may not understand that particular niche trying to shoot it.
For instance, when I had my content company...I was real good at shooting teen. But I had to be schooled by my foot fetish and smoking fetish customers on what they wanted to see...and I was surprised at what they wanted because I didn't understand the fetish and never will.
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Robbie. Think harder next time.
It's not, as I said, that some couldn't afford. Those who couldn't didn't.
Those who worked for these companies couldn't supply a far better paying market. If they could you have to seriously question their business sense. Yes the Internet largely damaged the rest of the porn business by giving away product. But until 2005 magazines and DVD shooter could earn 10 times (selling non exclusive licenses) what an Internet shooter earned (selling exclusive content).
Content on our stores earned more than custom shooters made, without magazine or DVD sales.
OK the shooters were all bad business men who didn't know about the rest of the porn world. So why didn't the sponsors sell content to magazines and DVD companies? ATK paid $1500 for 5 sets and videos or 10 sets. Why didn't they take 1 of those sets per shoot and sell it to magazines for $1800 US + $1,000 UK? $3,000 return for the cost of posting a disc. They needed to get in with a magazine with a phone call or visit. Once in the rest of the market was open. "Did you see my recent set in Barely Legal? Well I'm phoning you to introduce myself."
Imagine a members area full of content that was paid for by magazines and even made a profit from those sales. Your "Naughty America" example is wrong if you think of it wider.
They could of employed someone to do it if your excuse is "They didn't have the time."
And that was the level of business men I met all the time. People who had no clue the rest of the business existed. People who didn't think. "Paul Markham keeps shooting new content, he won't shoot custom, he keeps talking about magazines, WTF is he doing. That I might be able to do?"
Robbie, think of it as a missed opportunity. One year when you were attending Internext in LV you could of walked along the corridor, gone into the AVN show and sold your CM scenes for $5,000 a piece. Not 2010, but 2000 for sure. If they were worth $5,000 a scene that is to DVD companies. Even $1,000 a scene would of been nice. Then fly to Berlin and go to the Internet and porn show there. Again sell the same scene for $5,000. $10,000 for a single scene. Produce 12 DVDs a year and that's your shoot budget paid for. All free money. ;)
Who cares if my content is good or not? Magazines paying 10 times more than Internet sites.
