How to Become a porn director

How to Become a
Porn Director:
Making Amateur
Adult Films
By
Nick Ryder

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How to Become a
Porn Director:
Making Amateur Adult Films
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How to Become a
Porn Director:
Making Amateur Adult Films
©2001 Thompson Publishing
All rights reserved

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Introduction
Adult amateur film making is the disdain of
professionals, a money maker for big time
distributors and one of the most time consuming,
frustrating, cash consuming, trial and error
producing industries that a person can get into.
I think of amateur adult films in the same
light as the comparison between Playboy ® and
Gallery® men’s magazines. If you have never heard
of Playboy® magazine stop right here you picked up
the wrong book. Gallery™ magazine, on the other
hand, is a little less known but goes to the heart of
the difference between amateur and professional
porn films.
Gallery® magazine runs a section called “The
Girl Next Door®”. This feature allows husbands,
boyfriends and lesbian lovers to send pictures of
their naked female companions into the magazine to
be printed. These pictures are not retouched and
capture both the beautiful and the ugly in its rawest
form. It’s reality without the digital re-mastering that
makes every Playboy® centerfold look the same
with a different hair color.

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Working on a low or non-existent budget, directors
are forced to film raw footage of sex without the
expensive film crews; the high priced dubbing
studios and the slick marketing packages.
In essence it’s sex at its most basic level:
between real humans without the glitz and artificial
sweeteners of the professional films. It’s the “adult
film next door” approach that makes it real and
makes it interesting.
Amateur films appeal to the voyeuristic
instinct in us all. It’s the teenager who sees the
neighbor’s daughter undressing in front of her
window, the roommate who secretly watches his
roomie doing it. It’s how the non-pros have sex and
it is real and pure. It’s for those who like to have sex
and see someone else doing it.
To those who are about to embark on the porn
directors path we wave our erections, harden our
nipples and ready our sexual juices for your
cinematic dreams and vision. Go forth and film the
masses for viewing pleasure, for if you don’t
someone else will and you will be watching as they
are doing.

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Act One: Ten reasons not to become a porn
director and one reason why.
Act Two: Boring business stuff you need to know.
Act Three: Legal crap that may help you stay out
of jail (don’t bet on it).
Act Four: Avoiding the Viral Death Sentence
Act Five: Planning a Movie: How?
Act Six: Equipment on a bare-skin budget
Act Seven: The Set and Setting.
Act Eight: Writing the Porn Script
Act Nine: Lights, Camera, Sex
Act Ten: Woodsman & Nymphs
Act Eleven: Tips of the Trade
Act Twelve: Where do I go from Here?
Glossary
Sample Model Release

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Act One:
Ten Reasons Not to Become A Porn
Director And One Reason Why.
Reason Number One:
The local prosecutor will get a hard-on
dreaming of furthering his political hack career by
trying to throw your sorry ass in jail. This legal
barrage will come in many forms, with the concerted
attempt by any and every law enforcement personnel
to throw you in jail and make the headlines in the
local paper or evening news.
If the local prosecutor cannot “consti-
tutionally” convict you the next best thing is to try to
bankrupt you with the legal fees you will pay in your
defense. Call up a local criminal defense attorney
and ask them how much they charge an hour. Don’t
cry when you compare it with your own hourly
wage. Maybe cry a little.

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hire a lawyer who waives the legal fees to make a
name for himself, the last desperate attempt of the
persecutors will be character assassination. Read
further.
Reason Number Two:
Your neighbors and most “upstanding”
citizens associate porn directors and pedophiles as
one and the same or one leads to another. Be
prepared for public scorn, public meetings and
public ostrization if your secret side job becomes
known.
The local clergy will have a field day
whipping their followers into a frothing rage over
the declining moral standards that you are inflicting
on their community. This will also help hide their
own bad publicity over such touch church topics
such as embezzlement, inappropriate relations with
parishioners and the occasional child sex abuse
charges that come up.
The local town council will