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Old 10-28-2016, 12:43 AM   #841
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Hey Dani,

I recently caught up with the recent months of your video logs, save the last four (617-620).

First, let me thank you for heeding my simple advice about lighting. I see you now hang an opaque cloth behind you, and provide task-specific lighting from the front. I'd like three-point lighting and a ChromaKey background even better, but what you are doing is fine. One suggestion: don't wear glasses if you can help it, because glaring light reflections obliterate your pretty eyes!

Thank you for inviting us to limited preview of your renewed webcam work. Can I make a suggestion that might help pass the time when clients are taciturn or too few in number? Today when people say "porn," they tacitly expect you to imagine full-color, low-noise, video material - including even VR stuff. But once upon a time, porn almost exclusively consisted of verbal stories, like "naughty" novels; Lady Chatterly was among the first. Be careful about straining your voice (keep a drink at hand), but consider reading "dirty" stories during your Webcam shows to fill any awkward lulls in the action - and maybe even turn on the clientele. (Given your aversion to video relative to reading, I'd be surprised if the thought never crossed your mind at all!) If you have any aspiration to do "straight" acting or even voice-over work, it would be good practice, too.

I've always felt that one can benefit by knowledge of one's craft and industry, and to this end I'd like to suggest you review three germane video titles about which you may not know. They allow you to glimpse the changing industry over the decades, with the aspiration that the exercise may help you have realistic ideas about the future.

1. Behind the Scenes of an Adult Movie (1984) 100 minutes [IAFD link]
From the last years of the celluloid era. It's title says it all. This film was a Best Classic Release nominee at the 2010 AVN Awards. Best of all, you get to see someone named "Danielle" performing with your "boyfriend," Ron Jeremy! (Maybe I never should have shown you that YouTube comedy piece about women who love porn, which leverages Jeremy's biologically inevitable declining appeal as he reaches his last years; I think the guy was decent-looking in his youth, if you go for the Mediterranean type.)

2. How They Make Adult Movies (1997) 54 minutes [IMDb link] [MDiD link]
From the height of the videotape era. Again, a very descriptive title.

3. Jade - Why I Chose Porn - BBC Three (2016) 39 minutes [YouTube copy]
The story of a slightly younger British colleague of yours in today's Internet-centric world. (The BBC screwed around for several years, trying to make its content available world-wide for a fee, but evidently they are not as competent as you and the FTV guys, sigh!)

Given the subject of this post, I've decided to integrate the revision of a related post about a book immediately below, and delete the original copy.

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We all know you are a bookworm, so I want to commend to your attention a significant new book JUST (2016) published by Britain's Oxford University Press, titled The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know. (I think it's a real steal at US$17.)


Having quickly read the book, I think it lives up to the promotional review blurbs the publisher provides online here. Given its (book) format, one is especially impressed how it stays up-to-date with last-minute developments!

I really think everyone in your business should make time to read a serious book like this. *SIGH* - if only such books had been available to me when I was your age and looking to enter, and prosper in, a particular field of work!

If you do read this book, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts about it in a vlog. And because it includes a history of the industry, it might even give you some product ideas.

Best always,
RtL
Yeeeaaaahhhhhh....I usually start my day either wearing contacts or glasses. I'm not going to put in a set of contacts just for my video logs. Besides people like variety and some people are fans of glasses. The vlogs are meant to be casual. The lighting may be off in the vlogs I shoot in my office but I think the vast majority are okay with that. While I appreciate your advice I'm not going to set up three point lighting or a Chromakey. That purple opaque curtain is something that has been in my office (essentially hiding my shoe racks) for at least two years now. It wasn't put up for the vlogs.

As far as the reading erotic stories goes....I absolutely hate reading out loud. The only time I will really read a story out loud is when I'm reading my nephew a bed time story.
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