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This article is from the Sex Movies
FAQ, by director@gti.net (The Director) with numerous
contributions by others.
20.11 What frustrates an editor most?
S. Andrew tells us it's not all fun and games on a porn shoot:
"...when a the "director" spends most of his time trying to get the
dialogue just right. Never mind the story makes no sense. Never
mind the story, at best, looks like a wrap-around for a bunch of
sex scenes that have no relation to the story other than the fact
the same characters are in them.
There's rarely enough footage to cut the now required soft-core
version. And the sex scenes are so choppy with directors trying to
"direct" the action that it's damn hard to associate two shots
together smoothly.
Tim interjects: soft core versions of porn movies do not exist in
the gay porn world. Soft core cable channels like Spice and
Playboy do not have gay counterparts. Gay porn also tends to be
labelled obscene more often due to its homosexual content than do
heterosexual films, and so chains like Tower Records and video
stores often will not carry it (even if soft core) like they will
hetero porn.
Back to Andy...
Often there's so much off-camera direction that much good footage
is rendered unusable. Examples like the director saying something
profound like: "Transition now!" or the cameraman who'd rather
interrupt a woman's orgasm to tell her to move her hand because
it's blocking his close-up of her pussy, (Never mind that he could
just as easily shift slightly to one side to get the clean shot or
that the hand that's blocking her pussy from his camera is the hand
that's rubbing her pussy furiously in order for her to have that
orgasm. Never mind that what he really should be shooting is her
beautiful face in the throes of an orgasm.) or the video tech who
yells out during the middle of a shoot/pan/zoom/or other very
artistic camera move: "IRIS!" blowing the concentration of
everybody including the talent. After all that, I'm lucky if the
real raw footage ratio of sex is 1 1/2:1.
Unfortunately, when the director asks the cameraman how much
footage he's shot, none of those factors are considered and
consequently I'm usually inundated with far too much good shots of
dialogue and far too little good sex. *I* for one know that first
and foremost, I;m making a sex movie and try to concentrate my
efforts on making the best sex scenes from what I have to work
with.
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