Porn Studio Needs Writers. Will Pay!

[CyranoJ]

For the average length of the scripts involved it comes out to just over two cents a word. Basically the minimum rate anyone should be accepting for freelancing work.

 

[Jasonahutchinson]

For $1500 I could probably round up some "stars" and we could just start our own studio

But seriously, $25 bucks? It's gotta take at least an hour to mess with this?

Yep, my publishing earnings are more than that, but a good way to have some fun. Wouldn't mind seeing some of my own scenes become reality! I'd say, though, that $1500 would get you maybe one scene with one higher-end star and a 4k camera rental for a day!

 

[geronimo_appleby]

for me, it's been a very positive experience. no dramas at all.

my understanding is they're in the process of putting together the detail for jan and feb.

 

[CyranoJ]

my understanding is they're in the process of putting together the detail for jan and feb.

They've been in touch to tell me this as well. Very good, then.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

I'll try it

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[My I]

Having seen Nubile's films before there is no need for dialogue and really no need for a script.

DIRECTOR: Ok, Sweetie, you're a nurse and you're gonna do the patient, her husband and the doctor. Ok. Aaaannnndd.... ACTION!

 

[tomlitilia]

Having seen Nubile's films before there is no need for dialogue and really no need for a script.

DIRECTOR: Ok, Sweetie, you're a nurse and you're gonna do the patient, her husband and the doctor. Ok. Aaaannnndd.... ACTION!

Well that's good then if they want to improve their stories an dialogues by involving some lit writers.

 

[CyranoJ]

Having seen Nubile's films before there is no need for dialogue and really no need for a script.

Depends which of Nubile's various video series you're talking about. For some of them, story set-ups and dialogue are a specific part of the formula; others not so much.

What you're mostly providing in a script is a particular approach and set of beats fleshing out a basic, bare-bones concept. I don't know how much a writer can hope to "improve" their dialogue, though, since the dialogue is mostly just suggestions toward conveying a few basic ideas that add to the action, and what happens on camera will be largely ad-libbed by the talent.

FWIW I do find it an interesting exercise in a number of ways, and I'd actually say that I can see how doing this sort of scripting does tend to act as a "hook" that can make the associated content considerably hotter. (But then I would say that; it's the kind of content I specifically look for in porn, the gonzo "here's two people fucking in three or four positions" approach doesn't do much for me.)

 

[Tw0Cr0ws]

Studly Doright rings a door bell.

Betty Bigtits answers the door, inviting the stranger in.

They proceed to pull their clothes off quickly and then have oral, vaginal, and anal sex on the couch in eleven positions.

That will be $25

 

[sr71plt]

Studly Doright rings a door bell.

Betty Bigtits answers the door, inviting the stranger in.

They proceed to pull their clothes off quickly and then have oral, vaginal, and anal sex on the couch in eleven positions.

That will be $25

You forgot to mention that he's wearing an UPS uniform. That's a very important plot element.

 

[MasterL1111]

Hi I am very interested in this script writing , does this include any ideas, my mind is full of good scripts for adult films or scripts , email me at [Email addresses may not be posted on the open forum. If you wish to exchange Email addresses, please do so via private message - AH Mod]

 

[rjordan]

You forgot to mention that he's wearing an UPS uniform...

...and carrying a pizza.

I think we deserve at least an executive producer credit for those contributions. Hollywood awards them for far less.

rj

 

[rjordan]

What you're mostly providing in a script is a particular approach and set of beats fleshing out a basic, bare-bones concept.

Oh, for crissakes...they're just fucking. There hasn't been a porno script since the late 70's, early 80's.

rj

 

[CyranoJ]

Oh, for crissakes...they're just fucking.

Like I already said above, some of their series are just straight sex and others have story setups. Yes, that is actually the case, I promise I'm not making it up.

(It's nothing anywhere near as elaborate as Hustler's modern-day porn parodies or the pseudo-arty shit Michael Ninn used to do back in the day, obviously. But there's still plenty of daylight between New Wave Hookers and not needing a script at all. At least these guys seem to think so and I'm not about to tell them otherwise. Also: they had porn scripts in the Seventies?! )

 

[rjordan]

Also: they had porn scripts in the Seventies?! )

Behind the Green Door, considered by some the beginning of the Golden Age of Porn, was 1972. That was Marilyn Chambers. I think Annette Haven started about then and made some of her classics in the later 70s, and into the mid 80s. She could act as could several others in the late 70s. Many of the 70s classics had story lines and required acting at least at the high school play level.

I was 3 degrees of separation from Marilyn Chambers through her Ivory Flakes shoot, not her porn career. I was a friend of the P&G brand manager at the time. He shrugged it off as no big deal.

rj

 

[NotWise]

Behind the Green Door, considered by some the beginning of the Golden Age of Porn, was 1972. That was Marilyn Chambers. I think Annette Haven started about then and made some of her classics in the later 70s, and into the mid 80s. She could act as could several others in the late 70s. Many of the 70s classics had story lines and required acting at least at the high school play level.

I was 3 degrees of separation from Marilyn Chambers through her Ivory Flakes shoot, not her porn career. I was a friend of the P&G brand manager at the time. He shrugged it off as no big deal.

rj

I was never that impressed by Marilyn Chambers. I think she might have had one spoken line in all of Behind the Green Door. She had more in Insatiable, and in Insatiable she had a tight body (six-pack abs), but that wasn't such a good movie.

I'm a fan of Annette Haven. She was a good actress but probably not as good as Georgina Spelvin (The Devil in Miss Jones and quite a few others).

Some of the top shelf golden age movies borrowed their story line from other movies. "The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann," for instance, was lifted from a French mainstream movie.

There actually is some pretty good writing in some of the golden age movies. "Talk Dirty to Me" and its sequel "Nothing to Hide" come to mind.

 

[rjordan]

Some of the top shelf golden age movies borrowed their story line from other movies. "The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann," for instance, was lifted from a French mainstream movie.

There actually is some pretty good writing in some of the golden age movies. "Talk Dirty to Me" and its sequel "Nothing to Hide" come to mind.

Yea, I agree. There were some credible male actors as well. John Leslie, for example. My point, which I didn't make all that clear, is that we wouldn't know their acting abilities if they didn't have some semblance of a script with a story line.

I haven't watched porn in years because there is nothing to hold my interest. I'm sure there are just as many bright porn stars today as there were then, but there's no way to do that because the videos are dull and pointless. Unless they break out in some other way. Aurora Snow did a series of interesting articles for The Daily Beast over the last couple of years mostly about the porn industry. I had no idea who she was before that, but she was basically just another of the cum receptacles the porn industry cycles through until they drop out.

You can't go by me, though. Here at Lit, if the story line is good, I tend to skip through long boring sex scenes to get back to the story. You can't do that with a porn video today. The technology is there, but if you skip the long boring sex, all you get is a title and custodian notice.

rj

 

[CyranoJ]

There are actually pretty elaborate porn movies being made again today -- the real nadir of that form was the Oughties, I think -- but they have limited presence on the free aggregator sites.

Granted most of the stuff with even just basic story / character set-ups is of course made scene-by-scene now rather than as features, owing to budget constraints and to the way people consume porn today. But the notion that porn stopped using scripts after the Seventies or Eighties is quite wrong. If anything, the Nineties -- while they were certainly the birthing grounds of the plotless gonzo content that's dominant now -- were also the heyday of elaborate feature film porn productions. (There were some famous precedents, of course, I was just joking with the faux-ignorance about the Seventies.)

 

[rjordan]

There are actually pretty elaborate porn movies being made again today -- the real nadir of that form was the Oughties, I think -- but they have limited presence on the free aggregator sites.

Name some. (A request, not a challenge)

rj

 

[CyranoJ]

Name some. (A request, not a challenge)

rj

Modern feature length film and television parodies are a niche all their own. Far too many to name but it turns out there's a site dedicated to them.

 

[Tw0Cr0ws]

Name some. (A request, not a challenge)

rj

Pirates XXX (budget well over $1 million) and the sequel Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge (budget $8 million).