Beginners luck?
Well, after my first shoot with Luba Love I decided I was ready to move forward and work with a cameraman. I mean, lets face it… there’s only so much you can do shooting POV scenes when you have to hold the camera the whole time all by yourself. I suppose I could just place the camera on a tripod and point it at the bed or the couch like I see other people do in their amateur style porn vids, but that always looked a bit stupid to me. And I think it makes for rather boring video most of the time. Plus, I’m trying to make my way to become a porn “STAR” here, not just another amateur. Thus I need to do it like the pros do.
So I decided to place an ad online for a cameraman. I immediately got two responses, to which only one agreed to do the job once they learned the full details. But never the less I had found my cameraman, Evgeni. He was cool and the same age as me, so we got along great. With my new cameraman, I decided to book a couple of girls to shoot with. I explained what I wanted my camera guy to do, so that we were both on the same page. So we shoot the first scene, and when I go to look back at the video it’s absolutely horrendous!! Completely unusable. The angles are all wrong, you can’t see any penetration… it was a total fuckup. It sucks because I thought me and the girl I was with put on quite a show that day.
Well needless to say, I immediately call Evgeni and have him come over so we can go over these mistakes and be prepared for the next shoot. Now I’ve left out a few minor details about Evgeni, but by this time those minor details are starting to compound and I’m starting to notice that I’m not getting the kind of cooperation from him that I expect. He and I were cool and we’d even hang out together, but I’d notice things… like he’d always be lounging around, chatting up the girls, and drinking all my beer while I was busting my ass trying to get everything in place for the shoot. Then on top of that whenever we would go someplace he always wanted me to pay his way, even when he had cash in his pocket (that I paid him) from the shoot we just finished!!
Anyways, when I think we’re both on the same page (with regards to the camera work), I have him shoot another scene with me. It was an improvement from before, but the video was still crap. I had two more scenes booked that week, so I went ahead and let him film them. When I finally looked over the last videos, I did see an improvement but the videos were still no good to me. So the bottom line is my camera guy and I blow a total of 4 scenes right off the bat. Obviously things were not going as I had hoped. I immediately decided not to book anymore girls so that I could regroup and get things in order.
When I finally called Evgeni back, I told him we needed to do some training and that I needed a SERIOUS commitment from him because I didn’t want to blow anymore scenes because of shoddy camera work. We decide to meet up and discuss things, and as usual he wants to hang out and drink beer, AND still expects me to pay his way! Plus now he decides he wants more money, wants a chance to be in his own scenes, and pretty much thinks he’s joining this quest along with me. It was obvious that Evgeni was turning out to be more of a liability to me than anything else… so we had to part ways.
To be continued…
if you ever in london and need a camaraman i’m your man!
Ha,ha… thanks! You wouldn’t think it would be so hard to find a decent cameraman