Recently, I did my very first week of shooting hardcore boy/girl porn for my own site. I’ve casually shot girl/girl porn for my site for a while now and I have shot boy/girl porn for other companies (but it’s been a few years). I knew there would be some differences and a learning curve, but I wasn’t really quite prepared for how much I didn’t know.
- Scheduling for XXX happens much faster than it does for fetish. Much, much, much faster. See, for fetish shoots, I tend to book anywhere from a few days in advance up to months in advance (I think the most in advance I’ve booked a shoot was 7 months…). XXX, on the other hand, moved quick. And I understand why. The talent testing required for XXX is only good for a certain period of time (either 15 or 30 days). So within a week of contacting people to book, we’ve already shot and I’ve started editing the scenes.
- Those silly scenarios are there for a reason. Not everyone is able to just get straight to the good stuff, especially when you’re working with someone who is basically a stranger. It’s one thing when you’re working with someone you know and you have chemistry established between the two of you already, but when it’s someone you’ve never met before… it can get a little awkward. Having a scenario to focus on is a great distraction from that awkwardness, plus it gets the flow of the scene moving.
- POV scenes aren’t as easy as you might think. Especially if you’re not a smaller sized individual…but even more so if both you and your talent have a few extra pounds. In this case, going with the least complicated & least amount of work makes it much easier on both you and your male talent. Alternatively, you can have someone else film a scene for you POV style, but then you have to worry about that person’s body or presence distracting your male talent. Not everyone is great with sharing that personal space bubble with someone else.
- It’s OK to turn down shoots. In any genre of work, it’s important to remember that you can turn down work. Maybe you’re not comfortable with the person or the type of work they do, that’s OK! But it’s best to say “no thank you” as soon as you can. Drawing it out is frustrating and unprofessional. But you can negotiate and perhaps find a means to make a shoot work for you and your limits.
- Shoots are SO incredibly different. During fetish shoots, there’s a bit of pressure to get as much content as you can. During a XXX shoot, there’s a lot of chat time while getting ready, getting to know each other and outlining the overall plan for how the scene will go. In a 4 hour shoot, for XXX you might get one or two scenes total, whereas in the same period of time for a fetish shoot, you might get 4 scenes for each person involved (8+ clips!).
- Not everyone has the same feelings regarding significant others. Some people are extremely uncomfortable when you have your significant other shoot a scene, while other people don’t care at all. Even if your significant other is the person who shoots a majority of your content and is well trained on camera angles, some people just aren’t comfortable with it. But not everyone is the same. Sometimes just deciding whether you tell someone that it is your S.O. shooting your scene or not can also make or break a shoot (not just the shoot itself, but sometimes people will all together cancel a shoot over it).
Shooting my own XXX has been super fun and I cannot wait to continue doing more. I am really enjoying the challenges I’m facing as I continue growing my business.