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Originally Posted by danielle_ftv
I don't live in Sherman Oaks anymore. Right now I only live in Tempe, AZ (I'm moving all of my stuff out of LA tomorrow).
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Hey Danny,
I guess I'm sad to hear you wanted or had to leave The Valley. Surely you knew it is the mecca of US porn production, with the same preeminence which Broadway has for live theater and Hollywood for mainstream films.
Of course the Internet is a great opportunity for solo promotion and distribution. And I really admire rugged individualists like yourself. I sure couldn't tell you how to make your enchanting website better.
But it's still hard to be a mistress of all trades! I had hoped that by living in The Valley you would have found compatible, complementary partners, a chance to learn from experienced mentors, exploit higher production values and maybe even secure financing for projects. If anyone figures out how to cope with the piracy problem, it will be people there; maybe the chaperoned theater will make a comeback, but I doubt it. It's much more likely product placement will have a role.
By the time your generation reaches middle age and starts to control things, I'm sure we'll live in a thoroughly virtualized world where physical location won't count for much in your business. Of course, it also likely means that virtual actors will have replaced live bodies, with kinetic artwork limited to, at most, the manipulation and voicing of same. But for now, I'm not sanguine the porn kingpins socialize via LinkedIn or cast via Skype. Even in porn films themselves, it seems the use of digital FX is almost unknown, if one discounts pure animations.
I don't know the porn film business or that of film-making in general. So I don't know any implied business advice to you is worth very much. Perhaps it is because of that very ignorance that I held your residence in LA to be an important advantage. But then again, I guess you're only about 300 crow-flying miles from LA back home in Arizona if opportunity beckons there once again.
I imagine it's lots cheaper and less stressful to live in Arizona. Was it too hard to keep in touch with your friends there while in LA?
About four decades ago, I think it was porn pioneer Gerard Damiano who prophesied that the day would come that sexually explicit content was so mainstream that the boundary between porn and non-porn films would vanish. Save for the 18 USC 2257 documentation criterion, I think we now live in that world, where the frequency, duration and intensity of sexual content varies continuously over the spectrum of cinematic art.
This was something else which made LA interesting, because the San Fernando Valley sits in Hollywood's backyard, and I could see someone like you crossing over to mainstream video work. Actually, Michele Malene began as an FTV gal and then went on to do
Coed Confidential for four years on cable TV. You've shown real acting talent in at least one of the recent videos I've seen, and this doesn't depend either on your youth or your beauty or your willingness to do explicit sex work. I also think you're smart enough to get into stuff like scriptwriting, editing and marketing, opportunities which may grow in importance in your future.
Anyway, we all wish you the very best in the time to come! <3<3<3