Awol Nate wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:11 pm
I would love to hear Advocate's take on this. I'm just thinking that maybe there is a way to do both mainstream material and death fetish material. While filming his indie films, maybe he could add a filming segment where he completely "fetish" the death scenes in the mainstream film he's working on and sell that material separately in addition to his film. Just clips, five to ten minutes max, at a reduced price. He could have the best of both worlds.
Honestly I'm just saddened a bit. Crime House was my go-to for good fetish material at a "bang for the buck" rate. I have no input with them now simply because they went too big and I cannot afford them any more. They excelled at fetish material that was on point and affordable. I'd hate to see them compromise their talents for a broader audience that just might not take to them. Fetish and mainstream just cannot successfully mix. :(
Hello everyone and thanks for the discussion!
We have been on the market since 2015. We started with a simple studio, which, as they say here, developed according to the standards of a “fetish studio”, although, frankly, changing this is a stretched term, since any audiovisual work can be said to be a mini-movie. And even a five-minute video with murder and nudity, in fact, this is a genre short film, albeit filmed mainly for erotic pleasure.
But fantasies about the eroticisms of death are a subtle psychological world that includes an idea, an image, character development, and a plot. Giallo culture and slasher culture is also based on the erotic fantasy of a beautiful murder, while there was no Internet market at that time and people went to cinemas, Drive In Cinema, or rented cassettes from video rentals, and film producers were looking for sponsors to make feature films.
Now everything is simpler, more independent. But for many viewers, suspense, the setting, the quality of the material, the plot, the props are still important.
Tommygun very accurately described the business model of the market today.
But that's not the one reason of our modern format.
The fact is that any project, in my opinion, should develop. We as a team have grown a lot in almost 10 years on the market. We have gained a lot of experience, we have acquired a base of really appreciating us fans around the world who are moviegoers and want unique content in their collections, which includes erotic elements and is of value in terms of art.
Many want to see rich makeup, good acting. When we didn’t have location assistants before and we left packages from grocery stores in the frame, customers cursed at us. When we made bullets that didn't 100% hit someone's taste down to the millimeter, the clients cursed at us. And we understood that we can make films, that we all have film education. And there are such genres as exploitation cinema, giallo cinema, splatter punk, art house, mango cinema, anime, slashers. They are attributed to the culture of the 1970s, but independent films of such genres still exist today. And for many people, the fetish consists in an hour and a half film in order to remember their feelings from watching films of their youth, get used to the characters, experience catharsis when they kill not just a model girl, but a character who can be sorry, or vice versa, a bitch, which causes irritation, and her death on the screen is an act of retribution.
Even in sex, people have different preferences. Someone likes simple sex in different positions, someone likes long preludes in the form of role-playing games in different costumes and reincarnations. Fantasizing about film death and staged death is just a complex psychoanalytic process, so judging by our clients, who are also fans of such masters as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Nikolas Winding Refn, Dadid Lynch, Donato Carrizi and many many others, we are also needed and important.
Not all studios are ready to go on week-long shoots and pour tons of blood like in Living Dead. Not all manufacturers are ready to conduct master classes among staff on color in films, lighting, and voice acting. And not everyone has a permanent team paid out of my pocket every month, regardless of the number of sales and customizations. But if we remove this team, we will not be able to shoot. And this is a social responsibility both to the customers and to the team. So my answer is no, I'm not sitting on the fence between the fetish industry and Hollywood cinema, I occupy the niche that I like and that my clients like. We are glad to each client, we have different lines, different tariffs, we agree on everything. 99% of our clients are satisfied and come back to us again.
And don't forget about inflation. Are you sure that for $100 in 2015, your grocery basket in the store is the same in 2023? Prices for transport, fuel, equipment, clothing, electricity, renting locations are seriously growing all over the world. Therefore, we increased the fees for actresses and permanent employees. Many happy clients write in reviews that their favorite actress did a great job, but the lighting technicians did a great job, and the props who dressed her, and the manager who found her, and the cameraman who shot her, and the focus puller who made her clear, and the makeup artist who made her beautiful, and the makeup artist who made her bloody.
We are grateful to each of you for your attention, custom, purchases, discussions.
We love everyone!