All I have to say is good luck with the solo girl stuff...I did a site a little over a year ago. I worked non-stop, I got off my day job and went straight to work promoting the site until bedtime (even promoting on my phone during the day). Then did it again the next day. It eventually dragged me down and burned me out. That and the model quit to start stripping instead. Getting people to sign up for a solo site is tough. One girl, all the time, doing the same thing everytime. It's rough, you need to have the girl build a relationship with the members, to make them think they're the only member and she only wants them to stay a member. That's how you get them.
Now as for your questions. Lets see if I remember anything when I did this.
1. outside of the basic forms for 2257 and contract with a model, are there any other legal ramifications or issues with filming etc?
Not that I found, in fact, I was never contacted for any legal paperwork. If I'm wrong, please correct me anyone.
2. Do you plan your scenes down to the T or is there alot of improv, I plan on making a rough scene plan for each, and then going on the fly from there.
This is what we did, it's solo girl so there's only so much you can do right?
3. Do you just use basic 3 point lighting, or something crazier than that.
Ours was an "amateur solo girl site" so lighting wasn't a big deal for us. We wanted our members to think they were getting the girl in the apartment above them.
4. How about content: do you do more solo shoots, or does hardcore couple stuff sell more to online buyers.
Solo is tough.
5. What is a fair price, if I have a model come in for a quick test shoot, about an hour or so?
Not sure, I knew the model prior to starting the site so we did a 50/50 split. NEVER do that. The webmaster does ALL, and I mean ALL the work on a low budget solo girl site. All she does is pose and masturbate a few times. You sit at a computer for hours on end.
6. How about POV'S do prices change for tihs or is it about the same?
Not sure.
7. Video camera: I'm going to buy a sony nexvg20 I think, but I am also looking at a canon vixia, what do you reccomend, I'm definetly going with something professional/
Haven't used either.
8. stills vs. video? what did you do more of, what sells more?
Video, none of our members mentioned our stills, they always complemented the videos.
9. I'm thinking hotel rooms (upscale) for my shoots, is this good/bad? I really don't have elsewhere to shoot and I think this would be okay with lighting etc what do you think?
Bring your own sheets and try not to make it look like a hotel room. Unless that's what your going for of course.
With what I could answer, I hoped this helped. Don't forget to drive out to the middle of nowhere and do "public" shoot/video. Those were our top vids to our members. We pulled off the road and hiked into some hills and did our thing.
Good luck!
