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Originally Posted by alf6300
It also does not help that American shooters, on average, tend to shoot more fake/bored/serial stuff. Before I get ripped apart I'll say that YES, there are notable exception - but I see a pattern nevertheless.
One example that comes to my mind. I was proposed to buy some videos, a few days ago, by a relatively well known American shooter. Girls were fresh, young, and natural, and the setting was supposed to be "amateur / self shot". BUT the whole thing looked so horribly fake and bored. Clearly fake moaning over the top, blowing kisses to the camera, etc. At the very least, please tell them NOT to moan :-).
It may be in large part due to a "filler content" mentality. As Paul pointed out in other threads, the industry is currently dominated by the webmasters side of the equation, and this is probably even truer in the U.S.
Many of them (certainly not all, but a good number) start by asking themselves: Ok, facial|milf|tranny|whatever does good. I need to buy a "package" of 20 facial|milf|tranny|whatever scenes, so that I can get a domain, build a tour and and a member area, find (and sometimes screw) some affiliates and I am done.
Many times, I suspect, this particular webmaster does not even watch his videos - they are in the required 'niche' and that's enough. So why should the shooter care?
Sure, you will probably make a fast buck out of it if you build a decent tour, do your SEO homework, etc.
We all love fast bucks, but beyond the first two weeks there's more money to be made if you care about your product and your customer - that's a general rule in any industry, except if you are selling fake viagra pills and the like.
I know I am generalizing too much, and I could name 10 businesses, in both Europe and U.S. that are totally paranoid about the quality of their content and do well. But overall, the fake-viagra-pills mentality is probably dominant, and this contributes pushing chargebacks up and rebills down.
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The main difference between shooting today and shooting prior to the Internet is the acceptable level of work. It certainly has nothing to do with digital cameras.
What a website will pay for and accept would never get accepted by a magazine and that's why none of these guys shot for magazines. As far as DVD is concerned even they wouldn't of accepted most of the stuff on websites in the early days. It just wasn't good enough. So the shooters were working in the cheapest paying market, because they couldn't sell to the others.
Perfect Gonzo had one of the best shooters in the business. Every day people would hit up shooters and ask for the same type of content. They wouldn't or couldn't afford it. The shooter who did the work went to work for Evil Angel because the pay was better, PG could never replace him because they wouldn't or couldn't afford to.
Vid Vicious is a great video shooter, he went to the DVD market. 2 of the best shooters in the magazine game now shoot wedding, clearing $8,000+ a week each. No custom shooter in this business makes anything like that. A good set to us was worth $4,000 custom shooter shoot for $400 a scene.
If you pay peanuts you end up with monkey shit.
Twistys has some good hardcore scenes that's the level that DVD requires. I'll bet money it was shot on a good budget.
As for Internet shooters not having a clue of the niche. When you think to shoot porn all you need to do is point the camera, you end up with bad porn. And models thinking bad porn is the new level.