19.8 Okay, so maybe directing is not the thing to do... who writes the songs that those people fuck to?
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This article is from the Sex Movies FAQ, by director@gti.net (The Director) with numerous contributions by others.
19.8 Okay, so maybe directing is not the thing to do... who writes the songs that those people fuck to?
Brandy sez:
It's usually friends of people in the industry that have a keyboard
and stuff. They get probably $300 and the music is used over and
over and over (and most of the time doesn't even suit the scene.)
John Stagliano and I have another person we like to use who will
originally score the video. He costs a lot but I think it's worth
it. We have re-used the music from time to time but only bits and
pieces and we give him a few dollars more.
Tim Evanson points out:
Costello Presley, a mainstay in the gay porn arena, once did an
interview in MANSHOTS magazine that proved highly instructive.
Presley, a long-time LA studio musician, noted that most composers
get about $250 per film because the director knows that the score
will probably only be a rehash of themes and music heard previously
in other porn films. Top-notch studios will pay more, say $500, if
they have a guarantee of a totally new composition. But Presley
noted that the reason why most starving artists do gay porn is that
they are beginners who fiddle with themes and music and beats, and
their experiments litter gay porn.
It should be pointed out that most composers are keyboardists; full
bands need not apply. Composers should not think that they are
indispensable; producers are perfectly willing to dump a composer
and just rip off some techno music.
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