Re: Why Bother ? with Dumping Dwarves
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:08 pm
If you make one video you will have to trawl around the world to sell it.
If you are REALLY lucky you MAY sell it to a distributor who will want ALL the world rights, but since that would be a lot of money, he wont want to pay YOU all that money, or even most of it.
And why should he if he's going to do the work of flogging it around the world?
If you don't like his deal he'll go to someone else with a cheaper video, that may not be as new and interesting and ground-breaking but which costS a lot less but still has loads of naked girls and sex in it.
Making porn is like selling to a supermarket. It's a lot of hassle to buy stuff one at a time so they buy LOTS of stuff in one go, and pay as it's delivered over a year or more. Tesco's don't go out a buy mushrooms every day, they have deals with farms to supply them a consistent product on a regular schedule.
Private can spend money because they have the cash-flow to keep making new films as they sell the deliver (NOT sell, they're already sold) the ones they just made.
If you check their back catalogue their first videos were much simpler and cheaper. They were sold on the basis of the magazines name and reputation.
The mega-productions (which are still cheap compared to bigger mainstream TV, don't believe all the hype) came later.
If you're planning on spending lots of money, you should try and get your distribution sorted out first.
If you are REALLY lucky you MAY sell it to a distributor who will want ALL the world rights, but since that would be a lot of money, he wont want to pay YOU all that money, or even most of it.
And why should he if he's going to do the work of flogging it around the world?
If you don't like his deal he'll go to someone else with a cheaper video, that may not be as new and interesting and ground-breaking but which costS a lot less but still has loads of naked girls and sex in it.
Making porn is like selling to a supermarket. It's a lot of hassle to buy stuff one at a time so they buy LOTS of stuff in one go, and pay as it's delivered over a year or more. Tesco's don't go out a buy mushrooms every day, they have deals with farms to supply them a consistent product on a regular schedule.
Private can spend money because they have the cash-flow to keep making new films as they sell the deliver (NOT sell, they're already sold) the ones they just made.
If you check their back catalogue their first videos were much simpler and cheaper. They were sold on the basis of the magazines name and reputation.
The mega-productions (which are still cheap compared to bigger mainstream TV, don't believe all the hype) came later.
If you're planning on spending lots of money, you should try and get your distribution sorted out first.