Re: Becoming a star
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 9:12 pm
Perhaps the majority of people who frequent this site and discussion forum hail
from Europe and are more grounded in European porn fare and are more familiar with
the porn scene there. I don't know if there are real insiders here who hide their identity well.
My real understanding of Euro porn is rather more limited.
At lot of Euro porn (then and now) is plot driven, as ridiculous and illogical as those plots may be.
Mostly it is produced on the cheap.
I noticed a big shift in France in the last decade or so. France has shifted to condom-only scenes
and much of it is of the "amateur" or "pro-am" type.
Italy hardly produces anything of any high
quality in its own territory and prefers for whatever economic or tax purposes to shoot elsewhere
with foreign performers.
I have no clue what goes on in Germany these days.
Eastern Europe produces to a certain extent for outsiders or for local large outfits like DDF and
21Sextury (the latter offering more extreme and offbeat fare). I am given to understand that it
has become more difficult to produce porn in Russia and its bordering countries.
In the US more sutff is produced for websites than actual DVD movie releases.
Budgets are relatively small and only large outfits like Wicked produce what may be termed
as "high-quality product" (although with condom). The big player of a few years ago (DP) which used to make
very expensive movies has practically disappeared with its roster of contract
performers all let go in one way or another. Hustler and Vivid no longer are
putting out material. Vivid only seems to chase after "celebrity sex tapes".
As movie budgets shrink so do performers' salaries and income, and many have turned turn to escorting.
A number of (US) performers have been turning to cam shows and selling video clips on sites like Clips4Sale.
No one seems to have an answer how to survive and overcome this slump.
As Riot has pointed out it is quite evident a lot of product seems to be coming from the web
rather than traditional production, sale and distribution of DVD's. Video stores
in North America have practically disappeared, and DVD sales have shrunk. What they were content
to sell 3,000-4,000 copies of a DVD title only a couple of years ago now it is only
a fraction. BluRay and 3D in porn never really took off, and with the economic world slump no one
is willing to produce and consumers unwilling to buy such high-priced product.
With this glum outlook on the porn scene it is rather difficult to have a serious
discussion as to what elevates a porn performer into a porn superstar.
I believe those days are long gone. Not because they (performers) aren't there, but the whole
porn structure no longer exists to support such extravagance: the big outfits that would
sign up someone like a Jenna Jameson to multi-year contracts and big cash outlays,
with a big marketing machine and large DVD or cable sales. Most porn performers are
making perhaps half if not less than what a porn performers was earning (per scene)
say only 2-5-8 years ago.
from Europe and are more grounded in European porn fare and are more familiar with
the porn scene there. I don't know if there are real insiders here who hide their identity well.
My real understanding of Euro porn is rather more limited.
At lot of Euro porn (then and now) is plot driven, as ridiculous and illogical as those plots may be.
Mostly it is produced on the cheap.
I noticed a big shift in France in the last decade or so. France has shifted to condom-only scenes
and much of it is of the "amateur" or "pro-am" type.
Italy hardly produces anything of any high
quality in its own territory and prefers for whatever economic or tax purposes to shoot elsewhere
with foreign performers.
I have no clue what goes on in Germany these days.
Eastern Europe produces to a certain extent for outsiders or for local large outfits like DDF and
21Sextury (the latter offering more extreme and offbeat fare). I am given to understand that it
has become more difficult to produce porn in Russia and its bordering countries.
In the US more sutff is produced for websites than actual DVD movie releases.
Budgets are relatively small and only large outfits like Wicked produce what may be termed
as "high-quality product" (although with condom). The big player of a few years ago (DP) which used to make
very expensive movies has practically disappeared with its roster of contract
performers all let go in one way or another. Hustler and Vivid no longer are
putting out material. Vivid only seems to chase after "celebrity sex tapes".
As movie budgets shrink so do performers' salaries and income, and many have turned turn to escorting.
A number of (US) performers have been turning to cam shows and selling video clips on sites like Clips4Sale.
No one seems to have an answer how to survive and overcome this slump.
As Riot has pointed out it is quite evident a lot of product seems to be coming from the web
rather than traditional production, sale and distribution of DVD's. Video stores
in North America have practically disappeared, and DVD sales have shrunk. What they were content
to sell 3,000-4,000 copies of a DVD title only a couple of years ago now it is only
a fraction. BluRay and 3D in porn never really took off, and with the economic world slump no one
is willing to produce and consumers unwilling to buy such high-priced product.
With this glum outlook on the porn scene it is rather difficult to have a serious
discussion as to what elevates a porn performer into a porn superstar.
I believe those days are long gone. Not because they (performers) aren't there, but the whole
porn structure no longer exists to support such extravagance: the big outfits that would
sign up someone like a Jenna Jameson to multi-year contracts and big cash outlays,
with a big marketing machine and large DVD or cable sales. Most porn performers are
making perhaps half if not less than what a porn performers was earning (per scene)
say only 2-5-8 years ago.
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