Ask The Pornographer - 2016 Edition

[vacancy3]

Joey Stefano.

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Or... no.. Maybe Leo Ford. Beautiful blond man who died in his 30s. (motorcycle accident)

I love joeys scenes

 

[Latimer]

Or... no.. Maybe Leo Ford. Beautiful blond man who died in his 30s. (motorcycle accident)

Gay or G4P?

 

[Soilwork]

Gay or G4P?

Gay. I would never name a G4P as our Marilyn. They don't deserve that.

 

[KaraBulut]

Joey Stefano.

Or... no.. Maybe Leo Ford. Beautiful blond man who died in his 30s. (motorcycle accident)

Joey's last days were certainly tragic and like Marilyn's inconsistent performances in her later years.

There were a lot of people who tried to help Joey (to no avail). Seeing some of his last performances where he was still beautiful but high as a kite were especially sad.

 

[xboxfan34]

Have you ever had a confrontation with an actor who even though he sucks dick, jacks off on camera, and shoves dildos up his ass on camera, still swears to the highest of all powers that he's straight and you told him "No, you're fucking not."

 

[Soilwork]

Have you ever had a confrontation with an actor who even though he sucks dick, jacks off on camera, and shoves dildos up his ass on camera, still swears to the highest of all powers that he's straight and you told him "No, you're fucking not."

No. If he's not ready to come out... on set is not the place to have that conversation. Besides... most of those guys really are straight.

I know when a guy is claiming to be straight when he's not. But if they want to say that... let them. That said... there are a lot of gay porn stars who legitimately ARE straight. You can always tell by how they get hard... the gay ones will get hard by getting sucked off or at least near the other guys... the straight ones have to practically leave the room or at least watch girl porn and shut everyone else out.

 

[HornyJock]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

For me personally.. I'm putting a lot more work into making my movies into "movies." They're still porn. I'm not making movies with sex, I'm making porn with a plot. But I'm trying to make them as fun and enjoyable to watch as I can. I want throw in a bit of social relevance and I want to have fun.

I think you're going to see more studios adding more stories and dialogue and not just have "two guys fucking."

What movies you do?
I like porn movies with a plot, Cadinot is the best.
It's a shame there are no studios willing to make that kind of movies.

 

[Soilwork]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

What movies you do?
I like porn movies with a plot, Cadinot is the best.
It's a shame there are no studios willing to make that kind of movies.

I'm director of production for Titanmen.

Biggest hits have been Nightfall, Dick Danger, Blue Collar Ballers, Grind, Wide Awake and currently Jail Break.

My movie Like Father Like Son is selling really well and IT has a plot. The story is two young men (who are best friends and fuck buddies) come home early to discover their dads fucking. They watch... jerk off and then make a pact to fuck each other's dads.

I didn't want to make it one of those creepy "Son Swap" movies, I wanted it to be a "Dad Swap" movie... where the young men are the more sexually aggressive ones.

I have three movies coming out in February, March and April that all have stories.

In February I have a movie called Cauke For President coming out that's about a closeted gay senator who gets outed by a Manhunt hookup.

Here's the trailer.

 

[rareboy]

I've been in the industry roughly 13 years.

when I first started there were two solitudes...

the BIG HUGE MOVIE STUDIOS who released all their movies on VHS and DVD. They had huge budgets and movies were released when they were ready..they had no "must get a new scene out Tuesday." They would release two versions... a retail 1 Disc version and a 2-Disc director's cut. They made a fortune and brand loyalty was big.

Then there were the Online studios... the small ones. There were just a handful and most of them had shoe-string budgets and the content was shot in poorly-lit places, usually single-camera and usually very "Gonzo." The director talking to the performers and the whole thing was kinda skeezy.

Back in those days, we'd go to conventions and the DVD Studio people were all kinda bitchy and cunty and looked down on the Online people who they considered to be bush league.

The Big Studios generally didn't have websites other than for mail ordering their movies. If they had membership sites, they were terrible. They wouldn't give access to the entire catalogue, they were poorly designed and poorly run. Video streaming was almost non-existent and seldom worked. Many got fooled into that silly "Digital Rights Management" scam and paid all sorts of money to hobble their content to the point that even their paying customers couldn't view it.

Slowly over the years, the online studios became a bigger part of the puzzle. People turned to online distribution because it was easier and cheaper and more private. If you were too embarrassed to walk into a store and didn't want to wait for weeks to get your DVD in the mail... online solved that problem.

I remember one year at a convention when all the DVD Studios were suddenly all being... very nice. VERY nice. They would take me to dinner and buy all the drinks and ask me all about how they could change their sites to break into the online market better. The footing became much more even and when that happened... the weaker online studios disappeared as the big studios ate their market share. But also ... the online studios started to spend more money on productions and started to produce content closer to the level that the DVD studios were making... at the same time... the DVD studios saw their bottom-lines shrinking and their budgets came down.

It wasn't just the studios making less money... performers saw their pay going way down and the size of the staff shrank...

At one time you needed to advertise your website in print ads in magazines... now it's the other way around... you advertise your DVDs online.

when I started with Jake Cruise, we had a HUGE staff.. two video editors (plus me), three guys directing, two guys working in DVD mailing... an office manager, TWO graphic designers, an IT guy... accountant and Jake... before long it was clear we didn't need all of that.


Things were really odd for years. We couldn't agree on a standard for content delivery. We couldn't convince people that they weren't going to get their identity stolen if they gave us their credit card numbers, we couldn't find ways to give people what they wanted how they wanted it.

Things seem to me calming down now and making more sense. As internet speeds continue to increase and streaming technology gets better and people's computers can handle the data... they trust sites more and we're able to deliver our content better. Good online studios like Naked Sword and Men.com are right next to the long-living DVD studios like Titan and Raging Stallion. Small niche sites still exist... I'm excited to see where it goes next.

I see what you did there.

 

[Soilwork]

I see what you did there.

that was a REALLY long way to go for a joke, but it WAS the perfect mix of droll and obscure.

 

[HornyJock]

Thanks Soilwork, there is some decent acting going on there which is rare in porn.

I visited your site, and it looks like all great stuff.
I noticed though that all models tend to be big muscle guys, which is actually pretty common in the gay porn industry, so nothing really out of the ordinary.
What I often see from professional Producers is generally Bear on Bear, Muscle on Muscle, Twink on Twink, Jock on Jock, which I find rather boring.
Is there a business reason for it?

One thing that I always wanted to ask a producer is, why you guys don't experiment with different formulas?
I believe that would broaden your market reach.
Personally what I would like to watch is movies with actors with an obvious Age difference, different body types (Muscle on twink), more average looking guys (boy next door), straight turned gay situation, more interracial themed movies.....probably you get my point.
Also something that is seriously lacking in today porn is the "teasing" which is pretty common in Cadinot movies.
Most professional movies have this "plastic" feel to it, the sex performances feel rather staged, it doesn't feel like they are enjoying it, usually they seems too focused on their performance and as a result they give the impression they are just doing their job.

I admit I prefer better Amateur homemade movies over the ones made by professionals, you can feel the "passion" of the performers in it, they draw me in.
Is it just too difficult to replicate that in professional movies?

 

[Soilwork]

What I often see from professional Producers is generally Bear on Bear, Muscle on Muscle, Twink on Twink, Jock on Jock, which I find rather boring.
Is there a business reason for it?

It's the type of guy that our customers want to see. We've done a few older/younger scenes and they get a good reaction... I did that Like Father Like Son movie which sold really well on DVD, although the regular fans didn't react to it nearly as well as they did Jail Break. That just tells me that our long-term fanbase wants to see that type of guy. So... give the people what they want.

One thing that I always wanted to ask a producer is, why you guys don't experiment with different formulas?
I believe that would broaden your market reach.

We DO... but you can't stray too far from your market place or you'll alienate your existing customers.

I admit I prefer better Amateur homemade movies over the ones made by professionals, you can feel the "passion" of the performers in it, they draw me in.
Is it just too difficult to replicate that in professional movies?

First I invite you to watch my movies because I go out of my way to make sure the sexual tone on set is perfect and I do my best to create the perfect atmosphere so we DO get that passion and chemistry and we DO get movies that don't look like robots fucking.

That said... most directors don't bother to put the amount of work into it that I do... so it's not "too difficult" as much as "they can't be arsed to try."

 

[Telstra]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

I'm director of production for Titanmen.

Biggest hits have been Nightfall, Dick Danger, Blue Collar Ballers, Grind, Wide Awake and currently Jail Break.

My movie Like Father Like Son is selling really well and IT has a plot. The story is two young men (who are best friends and fuck buddies) come home early to discover their dads fucking. They watch... jerk off and then make a pact to fuck each other's dads.

I didn't want to make it one of those creepy "Son Swap" movies, I wanted it to be a "Dad Swap" movie... where the young men are the more sexually aggressive ones.

I have three movies coming out in February, March and April that all have stories.

In February I have a movie called Cauke For President coming out that's about a closeted gay senator who gets outed by a Manhunt hookup.

Here's the trailer.

I'm sorry but porn and dramma doesn't work. People will just skip to the porn part.
Maybe real full length serious movie with abit explicit nudity and sex.

 

[Soilwork]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

I'm sorry but porn and dramma doesn't work. People will just skip to the porn part.
Maybe real full length serious movie with abit explicit nudity and sex.

OK so... you're right... but this sin't "drama."

while I have been incorporating stories and dialogue into movies, I'm very mindful of what my job IS... my job is to get people off. I never have a scene with more than 1 minute before the dick comes out. I go out of my way to keep the action hot and the story brief. I can make it to the story and through the dialogue in under a minute and people will understand what's going on.

Just enough to make it hot... never so long that it starts to cool off.

I make porn with a plot... not movies with sex.

 

[HornyJock]

Thanks soilwork for your honest answers, that's pretty much what I expected to hear.
That's your niche market and that's what you do best, it make sense.

Another question:
Do the actors take any sort of performance enhancement substances to keep up the erection? (Ex: Viagra)

 

[Soilwork]

Do the actors take any sort of performance enhancement substances to keep up the erection? (Ex: Viagra)

Some of them, although I always tell everyone if they're going to.. they need a prescription and I don't want to see it. One of the reasons I like working with gay men is that they get hard by having sex with guys.

 

[Telstra]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

OK so... you're right... but this sin't "drama."

while I have been incorporating stories and dialogue into movies, I'm very mindful of what my job IS... my job is to get people off. I never have a scene with more than 1 minute before the dick comes out. I go out of my way to keep the action hot and the story brief. I can make it to the story and through the dialogue in under a minute and people will understand what's going on.

Just enough to make it hot... never so long that it starts to cool off.

I make porn with a plot... not movies with sex.

I've skipped all the talking part (straight or gay porn) unless they have some real interesting information about stuff. Or unless they are a very erotic scene, teasing (where they look real innocent and heart pumping)

Thats why amature porn works because they are "innocent and real" .

 

[Soilwork]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

I've skipped all the talking part (straight or gay porn) unless they have some real interesting information about stuff. Or unless they are a very erotic scene, teasing (where they look real innocent and heart pumping)

Thats why amature porn works because they are "innocent and real" .

wait... how do you know it's not "real interesting information" unless you watch it?

 

[Telstra]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

wait... how do you know it's not "real interesting information" unless you watch it?

well, if it is acting, it is unlikely to have no "real interesting information".
Real interesting information is just talk to the camera like a news reader
(quick and easy to make too)

 

[Soilwork]

Re: Ask The Pornogrpaher - 2016 Edition

well, if it is acting, it is unlikely to have no "real interesting information".
Real interesting information is just talk to the camera like a news reader
(quick and easy to make too)

I keep forgetting that you're bonkers.