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08-31-2007, 08:27 AM
Hi Folks!
Check out my latest interview with Jazmin Jones, which will be published next week in the Blue Room
Here are some excerpts!
For the curious reader, who is Jazmin Jones?
Jazmin is my alter ego – through her I can live out my deep, dark fantasies where I can say and do whatever I like! No seriously, I run a successful film and TV post-production business in London, UK for the last 10 years involving editing, music and audio design for mainstream TV, films and commercials . We have worked on over 200 award winning projects that have been nominated or won many international awards and I have always been a creative artiste first and foremost.
How has your expertise and knowledge about the film-making and music-making process helped or shaped your vision of adult film erotica?
Due to the pressures of having to produce high quality work under incredible deadlines
in my normal work, I bring those same values to making an adult film.
On an adult set, you are under a deadline of having to shoot the hottest scene you can shoot, in the few hours you have with the performers. I am also used to having to work under immense constraints and dealing with last minute changes that are thrown at you.
I have always tried to achieve the highest quality possible on anything I do.
High quality is most importantly about attention to detail, care and bringing over the sexual passion between the performers. Whether that is through a vignette film or a dramatic feature is irrelevant.
It takes about 3-4 months for us to make each film because I take care of every step of the film. We spend a few months writing the music.
During a shoot we spend time on the lighting, the performance, the locations, clothes etc
The post-production process takes about 2 months and all technologies and techniques are cutting edge and current.
The viewer is used to being exposed to films that are very high in quality and I do not want them to be dismissive of ‘porn’ as being a form of entertainment that looks cheaply made or is part of an ‘underground’ movement that cannot compete with the ‘real world’.
It is time that porn came out of the closet and showed itself to be a legitimate form of entertainment
that can compete with the mainstream. Therefore to do this, the bar has to be raised and production values have to be higher but at the same time we must not lose focus.
I am fortunate enough to be able to bring across all the values that have been instilled in me from working in the mainstream world, so I am able to inject a bit of freshness into an industry generally devoid of people who are into creativity as opposed to just making a financial profit.
In your opinion, is there any substantive way of differentiating porn from erotica?
The elements that I believe go into creating an erotic experience, which is the primary function of an adult film, are aural stimuli and visual stimuli and how the two are combined together.
I have always watched films with the aim of being swept up into another 'reality', and with Adult films, I want to create experiences where all the elements work together to create something that is ultimately a 'sensual & raunchy experience'. This to me is ‘erotica’.
The majority of the adult films on the market are of the ‘instant relief’ type without much consideration as to sensuality, intimacy or true raunchiness. This is my definition of ‘porn’
I am not interested in doing what the majority of porn companies do – those markets are over saturated and they do what they do very well.
There has been a recent boom in sexual liberation – sex is not as taboo as it was – the media talk about it much more and the image of the UK being ‘tight upper lipped’ is finally wearing off.
Hence, there is a demand for erotica amongst men AND women and with the opening and success of several upmarket erotic boutiques and the growing number of online retailers catering for women and couples, the stakes have been raised for many manufacturers of designer sex toys, products and adult film producers to meet this growing demand.
The marketing is crucial to targeting new viewers.
Even if the content is the most amazing erotic, innovative film, the viewer will not know it is different unless it is presented in a style befitting to the actual production.
That is why I like to be involved in every aspect of the film.
With ‘erotica’ the distribution must be different and brand awareness is crucial to introducing films of this nature to the mainstream market.
There is a novelty factor associated with ‘erotica’ at the moment, and therefore it has attracted a great deal of interest in the mainstream media. It is certainly not a passing fad – it is here to stay and as the bar is raised, so will the demand from consumers for more films of this nature.
People want more substance to their erotica.
CHECK IT OUT NEXT WEEK and let me know what you think!
Check out my latest interview with Jazmin Jones, which will be published next week in the Blue Room
Here are some excerpts!
For the curious reader, who is Jazmin Jones?
Jazmin is my alter ego – through her I can live out my deep, dark fantasies where I can say and do whatever I like! No seriously, I run a successful film and TV post-production business in London, UK for the last 10 years involving editing, music and audio design for mainstream TV, films and commercials . We have worked on over 200 award winning projects that have been nominated or won many international awards and I have always been a creative artiste first and foremost.
How has your expertise and knowledge about the film-making and music-making process helped or shaped your vision of adult film erotica?
Due to the pressures of having to produce high quality work under incredible deadlines
in my normal work, I bring those same values to making an adult film.
On an adult set, you are under a deadline of having to shoot the hottest scene you can shoot, in the few hours you have with the performers. I am also used to having to work under immense constraints and dealing with last minute changes that are thrown at you.
I have always tried to achieve the highest quality possible on anything I do.
High quality is most importantly about attention to detail, care and bringing over the sexual passion between the performers. Whether that is through a vignette film or a dramatic feature is irrelevant.
It takes about 3-4 months for us to make each film because I take care of every step of the film. We spend a few months writing the music.
During a shoot we spend time on the lighting, the performance, the locations, clothes etc
The post-production process takes about 2 months and all technologies and techniques are cutting edge and current.
The viewer is used to being exposed to films that are very high in quality and I do not want them to be dismissive of ‘porn’ as being a form of entertainment that looks cheaply made or is part of an ‘underground’ movement that cannot compete with the ‘real world’.
It is time that porn came out of the closet and showed itself to be a legitimate form of entertainment
that can compete with the mainstream. Therefore to do this, the bar has to be raised and production values have to be higher but at the same time we must not lose focus.
I am fortunate enough to be able to bring across all the values that have been instilled in me from working in the mainstream world, so I am able to inject a bit of freshness into an industry generally devoid of people who are into creativity as opposed to just making a financial profit.
In your opinion, is there any substantive way of differentiating porn from erotica?
The elements that I believe go into creating an erotic experience, which is the primary function of an adult film, are aural stimuli and visual stimuli and how the two are combined together.
I have always watched films with the aim of being swept up into another 'reality', and with Adult films, I want to create experiences where all the elements work together to create something that is ultimately a 'sensual & raunchy experience'. This to me is ‘erotica’.
The majority of the adult films on the market are of the ‘instant relief’ type without much consideration as to sensuality, intimacy or true raunchiness. This is my definition of ‘porn’
I am not interested in doing what the majority of porn companies do – those markets are over saturated and they do what they do very well.
There has been a recent boom in sexual liberation – sex is not as taboo as it was – the media talk about it much more and the image of the UK being ‘tight upper lipped’ is finally wearing off.
Hence, there is a demand for erotica amongst men AND women and with the opening and success of several upmarket erotic boutiques and the growing number of online retailers catering for women and couples, the stakes have been raised for many manufacturers of designer sex toys, products and adult film producers to meet this growing demand.
The marketing is crucial to targeting new viewers.
Even if the content is the most amazing erotic, innovative film, the viewer will not know it is different unless it is presented in a style befitting to the actual production.
That is why I like to be involved in every aspect of the film.
With ‘erotica’ the distribution must be different and brand awareness is crucial to introducing films of this nature to the mainstream market.
There is a novelty factor associated with ‘erotica’ at the moment, and therefore it has attracted a great deal of interest in the mainstream media. It is certainly not a passing fad – it is here to stay and as the bar is raised, so will the demand from consumers for more films of this nature.
People want more substance to their erotica.
CHECK IT OUT NEXT WEEK and let me know what you think!