Making a porno - a photo diary (NSFW)

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

The other porn capital is Miami.

[Thomas Wood Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thomas Wood]

I can guarantee you there were more then 24 adult films produced in LA. Almost everyone either shoots in a studio or hides the filming.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

I can guarantee you there were more then 24 adult films produced in LA. Almost everyone either shoots in a studio or hides the filming.

Indeed. I'd go further and gaurantee there were more than 480 in 2012 as well. What I find funny is that all the talent pretend that the exodus has happened, they rave on to reporters that LA is losing a fortune by not hosting porn anymore, and yet anyone of note in the industry is still living in the Valley. I guess everyone seems happy with the charade and I'm just a tourist so... whatever's right.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

The other porn capital is Miami.

I did look at Miami. It does seem like a safer spot for it. Unfortunately we had no contacts there and, ultimately, I don't know the names of any stars who are not LA based. If you want to work with your Angela Whites and your Lacey Lennons then you need to go LA.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

I did look at Miami. It does seem like a safer spot for it. Unfortunately we had no contacts there and, ultimately, I don't know the names of any stars who are not LA based. If you want to work with your Angela Whites and your Lacey Lennons then you need to go LA.

Could have contacted Reality Kings over there.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

Could have contacted Reality Kings over there.

Sure but we don't know them. In my experience people in this biz dont respond unless they know you. So far I've probably blind contacted maybe 20 stars or production people in different roles. I got one response from an agent that way, otherwise we've been ignored by everyone we didn't already have an "In" with.

It's understandable, I guess, even if it is frustrating. I think what happens is people in this business receive a mountain load of crap from weirdos, and hopefuls, and so ignore any contact except from people they know.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

It's understandable, I guess, even if it is frustrating. I think what happens is people in this business receive a mountain load of crap from weirdos, and hopefuls, and so ignore any contact except from people they know.

I've experienced this even when reaching out to do interviews.

[Thomas Wood Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thomas Wood]

There's been a few cases in recent years where a company has booked a girl and when the girl goes, the company does not exist and the person doing the booking is really a stalker so agents are wary about booking anyone to a company that is not known. Also, trying to book through a company, say Digital Playground, would not be helpful since they would view you as competition.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

I've experienced this even when reaching out to do interviews.

Although if my memory is serving me correctly you did get an interview with Tommy Pistol once upon a time. So you've done one better than me there.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Although if my memory is serving me correctly you did get an interview with Tommy Pistol once upon a time. So you've done one better than me there.

That was years ago, pre-AVN award, but yeah, he was pretty easy to get a hold of back then.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

There's really been nothing about this project that hasn't been more difficult than it should be. Currently trying to work out locations to shoot in- mostly sci fi looking apartments.

When the production was to be based in Melbourne this wasn't an issue. Melbourne is a city of glass skyscraper apartment towers. There's literally hundreds of the bastards crowding round each other and almost any of the apartments in them could, with a little set dressing, pass for my hero and heroines homes in the 23rd Century.

Los Angeles not so much. Few glassy apartment skyscrapers here. It's a suburban city. Very cool, very cinematic surburbia but pretty much the antithesis of a clean, Jetsons-esque future.

On top of that home owners are on the look out for you. A good percentage of Air BNBs state No Filming upfront. Every other one I've written to so far has said "strictly no filming or photography!" Yup even get exclamation marks and I hadn't even told them that the shooting in question was for porn. It's difficult...

Of course in LA there's a lot of locations that are there specifically as filming locations. They ALL state up front though "No Adult Productions". I am feeling unloved.

Again none of this is an issue in Melbourne. No one has a policy on filming here and it wouldn't even occur to anyone that you might be shooting porn because no one does.

Got to the point where I'm thinking of hiring an empty warehouse and having the sets built. I spent this morning designing one in CAD. I suspect though such a thing is outside my budget...Though if you happen to be an LA based builder or carpenter, hit me up.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

Two steps forward one step back. Or is one step forward two steps back?

I may have mentioned that the girls in porn are most likely not in it for the money. There's fuck all money in for it them unless they want to spend 6 days a week on their back and, frankly, that's no life for a young lady.

There are much better sources of income available to them. I saw my contracted leading lady on Twitter the other day responding to a fan asking why she wasn't doing more scenes . "What's the point?" she said. "My "Only Fans" makes me $30,000 a month. Why waste a day fucking a stranger for $1,300 to make a film that gets pirated 1000 times in the first hour?" She makes a fair point.

Still it left me feeling a bit odd. How does that attitude affect her approach to my film? If she's possibly losing money working for me then what's our relationship on set? I passed the post onto Poppy, my partner in life as well as on the film. "Where does that leave us?" Poppy dived into her instagram and a moment later asked, "Why does she get her hair done in San Diego?"

San Diego?! I write to her agent. " Oh yeah, she moved out to San Diego a couple months back. She's no longer with our agency and she's not doing your film. Which of my other girls do you want?"

Well shit... you'd think someone would have told me... wouldn't you? I mean we had a contract... Now I need a new girl in a brutally hard to cast role and I can't even do anything about it at the moment as anyone who matters is currently hovering around the AVN awards where they're either drinking, drunk or hungover. Certainly no ones answering their phones. It's an odd biz.

BTW apologies for the lack of photos in this "photo diary". I promise once I arrive in LA on the 14th of April that will be rectified.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Damn. That's a shitty situation.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

I guess the contract would probably be pretty hard to enforce, huh?

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

Interesting stuff. Good luck