Ask The Pornographer - 2016 Edition

[star-warrior]

Now the dollar is so strong against the pound sterling, will you consider filming in the UK? Which brings me to the question, will filming porn in the UK for non-UK filmmakers involve a lot of red tape?

 

[Soilwork]

Now the dollar is so strong against the pound sterling, will you consider filming in the UK? Which brings me to the question, will filming porn in the UK for non-UK filmmakers involve a lot of red tape?

first question: No.

While I like the idea of shooting in the UK, my gear and setup just isn't that mobile. We have a lot of specific and specialized gear and equipment and it would cost a fortune to get it all there. It would also cost me a fortune to get my crew there and I don't shoot without my crew. It doesn't cost the company anything to shoot in Palm Springs since we own all the locations we use and the stars like to all stay together in the same house. It's like gay porn summer camp.

 

[xboxfan34]

Is it bad that I sometimes wish the gay community was more like it is in gay porn? I don't know, it just seems like everybody gets along in gay porn. it seems like there truly is somebody for everyone...

 

[SaskGuy]

Is it bad that I sometimes wish the gay community was more like it is in gay porn? I don't know, it just seems like everybody gets along in gay porn. it seems like there truly is somebody for everyone...

It would actually be pretty awesome if it was possible to have sex with a straight guy you're attracted to with very little convincing haha... "Hey dude, I know you're straight but you want to have sex?" "No." "Ah come on!" "Alright! that sounds like fun! Let's fuck!" although in real life, that would get your head kicked in hahaha

 

[travis82]

That's it. That's your brightest light and unless you're going to say... shoot into the sunset and need to over-light your subject from the front... THEN you need a VERY bright light and a nearly closed aperture or you'll just get shadows and silhouettes.

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Sorry... been very busy.

I have missed you guys.

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Thank you very much for your reply and advice.

Can you explain the last part of your reply?

Why do you need a nearly closed aperture?

To have a deep focus? To keep everything in focus?

 

[jbrown329]

Thank you very much for your reply and advice.

Can you explain the last part of your reply?

Why do you need a nearly closed aperture?

To have a deep focus? To keep everything in focus?

With to much light, it would end up looking similar to this.

 

[Soilwork]

Is it bad that I sometimes wish the gay community was more like it is in gay porn? I don't know, it just seems like everybody gets along in gay porn. it seems like there truly is somebody for everyone...

Porn is about fantasy... sexual and social. So no, it's not bad at all. There are buttholes in porn but few assholes.

 

[Soilwork]

Thank you very much for your reply and advice.

Can you explain the last part of your reply?

Why do you need a nearly closed aperture?

To have a deep focus? To keep everything in focus?

the more closed the aperture, the wider an area can be in focus. If you're at 2.8, your focus area is about an inch deep.... if you're up at f11, your focus depth can be closer to 3 feet , therefore the bodies and everything remains in focus,.

 

[suckpoppet]

It seems to me that it isn't very easy to cum on video. Very understandable, so it shouldn't be taken as criticism.
I for one couldn't perform at all, but that's why I am not in the porn business.

My question is: why not edit those scenes when a performer is trying very very hard to cum? No-one would notice...

Also, the most beautiful models aren't necessarily the best performers (that's a comment, not a question).

 

[Soilwork]

My question is: why not edit those scenes when a performer is trying very very hard to cum? No-one would notice...

The good studios do. There's nothing more annoying than seeing someone try to cum for 15 minutes. Just edit that shit out.

 

[Latimer]

My question will make it obvious that I know next to nothing about sound editing: how do you edit out directions from the director and yet retain the conversation and sounds from the performers? If you take out one, don't you also take out the other? I assume this is not like Italian cinema where everything is dubbed afterwards. Also, do you have a microphone suspended overhead to capture the sound? I hadn't thought previously that the director would be talking during the action, but you mentioned that he does.

 

[Soilwork]

My question will make it obvious that I know next to nothing about sound editing: how do you edit out directions from the director and yet retain the conversation and sounds from the performers? If you take out one, don't you also take out the other? I assume this is not like Italian cinema where everything is dubbed afterwards. Also, do you have a microphone suspended overhead to capture the sound? I hadn't thought previously that the director would be talking during the action, but you mentioned that he does.

I often have to grab audio from other parts of the video and fit it in to make it all sound right. that said.. yes, many times I've had to get the guys to re-dub their dialogue.

 

[Latimer]

Thanks, I better understand.

 

[xboxfan34]

Music question: Mystic Rhythms vs Middletown Dreams

Gay porn question: Steve Hurley (titpig) vs Tom Katt

 

[Soilwork]

Music question: Mystic Rhythms vs Middletown Dreams

Gay porn question: Steve Hurley (titpig) vs Tom Katt

I always thought Mystic Rhythms was an oddly weak track for such a strong album so I'll go with Middletown Dreams.

I've never met Tom Katt, but he's a Christian Youth pastor now... his movies were hot. But Steve Hurley is in Big Bear Trucking Co and i love that movie so I'll go with him.

 

[Cumlover91]

What is your favorite porno film?
How did you get started? Were you a porn star before?
What advice do you have for people who are considering it?

Sorry if the questions are repeats.

 

[smokeshadow]

Jasun - how is it that scenes that were filmed for one studio six, eight or ten years ago are showing up as scenes for a different studio; complete with new studio's logo on the scene? For example. . .scenes that were originally filmed for Camp Afton Nills Academy are now appearing on the Phoenixxx site.

 

[Soilwork]

What is your favorite porno film?
How did you get started? Were you a porn star before?
What advice do you have for people who are considering it?

Sorry if the questions are repeats.

Hard to say... probably Gangsters At Large by Kristen Bjorn or Arcade On Route 9 by Joe Gage


How I got started is a VERY long story that's been told but short version is "I took film at York."

I have never been a porn star.

My advice is "this is a great industry if you have the stomach for it, but it's a lot of hard work, it's pretty thankless and many of the fans and bloggers are a bunch of mean girls who need a good talking to from my husband's Uncle Morizzio."

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Jasun - how is it that scenes that were filmed for one studio six, eight or ten years ago are showing up as scenes for a different studio; complete with new studio's logo on the scene? For example. . .scenes that were originally filmed for Camp Afton Nills Academy are now appearing on the Phoenixxx site.

in most cases, that's bargain basement sites that buy up the rights to old content and rerelease it.

 

[xboxfan34]

This sounds like such a simple question...yet for me it seems like an insurmountable hurdle to go over, I guess that's just me. And I know this isn't a porn related question, but I want to ask someone who's had a lot more experience in life than I...

How do you change your outlook on life and raise your self esteem if it's pretty much nonexistent? I feel like there are just so many things about our community that are complete self esteem killers....the "no fats no fems" theme is definitely a huge example....and because of it, my depression has gotten to the point where I literally feel completely unworthy of anyone's love and affection because I don't have a certain "look"

 

[Soilwork]

This sounds like such a simple question...yet for me it seems like an insurmountable hurdle to go over, I guess that's just me. And I know this isn't a porn related question, but I want to ask someone who's had a lot more experience in life than I...

How do you change your outlook on life and raise your self esteem if it's pretty much nonexistent? I feel like there are just so many things about our community that are complete self esteem killers....the "no fats no fems" theme is definitely a huge example....and because of it, my depression has gotten to the point where I literally feel completely unworthy of anyone's love and affection because I don't have a certain "look"

I mean... I'm going to sound like a totally cheese thing to say but self esteem hasn't ever really been a thing for me.

I just... Decided to become the kind of person I'd like and became that guy... So all the shit people throw at me just... Goes past. I don't care.