So You Want To Make Porn - Perspectives From The Inside Featuring James Mogul and Madison Young
Date:
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Cost:
Workshop fee: $25
Membership is NOT required for the workshop. Please bring ID to verify that you're at least 18 years old.
Pre-registration is NOT required for the workshop.
James Mogul and Madison Young are thoughtful, witty and engaging.
They're also smart pornographers - James directs for Kink.com and Madison directs for Madison Bound Productions.
Their workshop will cover the following:
Background
- James and Madison - life before porn and art galleries
- Why we do it and getting started - the inspiration to create something
- Working as an indy starving artist
- Bondage photography
- Founding Femina Potens
- Building your vision
- Starting and developing Madison Bound Productions
- Artbound Productions and NawaShibari
- Learning the craft - gaining experience, directing and producing for the fetish market
- Going corporate - fitting into the machine with your vision intact, directing and working for Kink.com
- Social concerns in BDSM porn
- The politics around queer porn, feminism and activism
Making Movies
- The idea, creative methods and themes
- Writing it down - development and scripting
- Budgets - no-budget, low-budget and larger shoots
- Making it happen on shoot day
- Getting paid - post production and distribution
- Legal concerns
Making a Living
- How to keep the ideas coming
- Originality and sustainability
- Lifestyle arrangements
Performance - The Tail of a Bondage Model
A reading from Madison's first book, performed with a compliment of Japanese style rope bondage by James.
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