Candygirl said:
And on that note, even though it's a smaller market, I think someone should cater to the female fetishists among us and have "hot guys" as the lers in the videos.
I was having this discussion with a customer the other day. He was making suggestions like getting female ticklers, adding foot worship, etc... and while they're all good ideas, the fact is (as derkitzelnonig points out) I'm not making shit in the way of profits. I've lost money on every clip I've made and have basically stopped hiring new models until I finish editing/releasing all of the stuff I've already shot and made back my investment - which, at the current rate of sales, will probably take me a year. I'm going to be going under long before that, I reckon.
I can't speculate on other producers' profits, but I can't afford to hire more than one model at a time, and I have to find girls who work cheap, to boot. So regardless of whether or not I wanted to do F/F, or add male models, or whatever... it can't happen until people start buying my clips.
One problem that nobody's touched on, though, is that the more people you add to a shoot, the harder it is to direct. I mean, half the time the girls don't even pay attention when I tell them the safeword, and you can't direct them
during the video if you're using sound... so okay, you give her half-a-dozen stage directions before the camera starts rolling, and then she either forgets or decides to improv. Now you have a problem. Add in a second model, regardless of gender, and now you've multiplied that problem by two. It's not a big deal with F/F because guys don't give a crap as long as they get to watch hot girls, but guys in videos tend to be... stupid. I'd be really wary about using a guy as a model unless I knew he wasn't going to screw up the shoot - and all that on the off-chance that one woman
might buy the clip? No. Not worth it. The big guys are welcome to give it a whirl, 'cause I sure can't.
PS - It has nothing to do with the IRS, at least where Clips4Sale is concerned. You can't even open a store without valid ID/tax information.