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Originally posted by Cashmoney: Does anyone here know anyone who owns their own porn company or porn website? I'm wondering because a friend of mine and I are seriously thinking about starting one up like BangBros.com. Right now its to the point where we're recruiting actresses from Europe, technically they're high end escorts but neither of us really gives a shit. Most of the women are actually models and a couple are well known throughout Europe. I'm just wanting to know if anyone here has a porn website or knows someone that does. I'd like to talk with you/them about some questions I have. And BTW, don't any of you crazy GCers think I'm going to be in the videos because I'm not. I'm just wanting to do it for the money, not the pussy.
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Doubtless you'll be sitting at a desk smiling all day.
I remember another business idea you had about a meetup.com thing or something for greeks? I'm guessing that was shelved... so you'd need to make sure you were serious about this porn idea before investing time/money in it (making porn that is not watching porn
). Like any business idea
you need a serious business plan. Going into it assuming all you'll need is nude girls who don't mind having sex in front of you and getting paid while you point a camcorder at them won't do it!
I don't know anyone in that business I can't really help comment. Erm so I looked into it for five mins and this is what I came up with (random comments follow)...
There was a TV series called Porno Valley which followed the
Vivid production company with its girls such as
Jenna Jameson, Briana Banks et al. You could look into that for a behind the scenes look?
Paralleling the mainstream film industry, the heartland of porn film production is LA (San Fernando Valley - aka Porno Valley).
Link. Still, it might lighten up Gainesville.
Often, many studios specialise; or initially specialise at least.
Vivid for instance, is apparently known for its trend of involving plots in its films. Consequently, if you wanted to do
that, you might need to rethink the European actresses who're unlikely to have acting skills. There's also specialising in types of porn obviously.
Undoubtedly, the published paper media (magazines etc) has fallen by the wayside to DVDs/Internet based porn in recent years. Websites are particularly popular - both in Europe and the US.
Link. I think stats state that porn websites are 12% of
all websites visited and 20% of search engine searches are for porn. That bf of Miss Hilton apparently made $12m off selling the movie download on a website. But I imagine that is an EXTREME exception to the rule. I could think of a few expletives to describe him too.
You don't seem too sure Cash as yet whether you want a 'porn company' (to make films?) or a porn website. They aren't really the same? You can have movies on demand as pay downloads on a website but most websites have things like live 'chat' where you can interact with people too. Obviously there are lots of things that can be done - secure mail order of movies, diversifying into other merchandise etc.
A porn film production company obviously involves making films. There are cameramen, directors, equipment hired. Lighting etc. It all has to be paid for (and isn't cheap) so you can't mess around and ask them to come back next week instead!
A newer trend is so-called gonzo porn. Time was you couldn't do anything without a full camera crew, these days digital camcorders and the like are much cheaper so there's a slew of movies where someone decides they can make some money by renting a hotel room and having a male and female (or whatever) go at it. This is called gonzo porn. It has a very homemade quality to it. Naturally, the videos don't tend to be such good quality or sell very well. As an aside, an apparent trend is couples porn which some people apparently like for its realistic appeal.
An industry paper would seem to be
http://www.adultvideonews.com/ .
Erm this link also talks about the glut of new companies around and starting up, it's an offshoot of that AVN thing:
http://www.avninsider.com/stories/dac070303.shtml
How many disclaimers can I put in /should I post under a diff username :p
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