A rant about director and photographer incompetanc
Having now viewed thousands of various porn titles, many from the seventies and eighties, it strikes me just how incredibly incompetent many directors and camera operators were. Here is a list of failures that I regularly see:
poor/insufficient lighting (especially when the actors are persons of colour and there is less reflection off the body).
bad lighting when filming outside - the sun is shining in the scene and it's still too dark. Just position the actors so the light is shining on what you're filming!
too much plot, not enough porn.
garments (dresses, lingerie, etc.) obscuring the body parts or action we want to see.
hands, arms, legs, hair obscuring the body parts or action we want to see. Get your ^%@*ing hands out of the way!!!
bad, unimaginative camera angles with no forethought of how they would shoot the scene to capture quality footage.
lack of close-up shots. Larry Flynt fought for us to be able to see "the most erogenous part" (vagina) in porn - so show it, damn it!
sexy scenes where one or more of the women remains clothed - if she's in the scene, we want to see her naked and having sex!
And then of course there are all the plot issues:
what's with all the v******e, degradation, ****, guns in vintage porn!? It doesn't turn me on!
films with virtually no plot at all.
I'm not a fan of sterilized, superficial, primped, women (fake tits, shaved everything, etc.) so I don't watch modern porn. The stuff I do wtcht seems generally better but in fairness, I can't comment on stuff post 1985.
poor/insufficient lighting (especially when the actors are persons of colour and there is less reflection off the body).
bad lighting when filming outside - the sun is shining in the scene and it's still too dark. Just position the actors so the light is shining on what you're filming!
too much plot, not enough porn.
garments (dresses, lingerie, etc.) obscuring the body parts or action we want to see.
hands, arms, legs, hair obscuring the body parts or action we want to see. Get your ^%@*ing hands out of the way!!!
bad, unimaginative camera angles with no forethought of how they would shoot the scene to capture quality footage.
lack of close-up shots. Larry Flynt fought for us to be able to see "the most erogenous part" (vagina) in porn - so show it, damn it!
sexy scenes where one or more of the women remains clothed - if she's in the scene, we want to see her naked and having sex!
And then of course there are all the plot issues:
what's with all the v******e, degradation, ****, guns in vintage porn!? It doesn't turn me on!
films with virtually no plot at all.
I'm not a fan of sterilized, superficial, primped, women (fake tits, shaved everything, etc.) so I don't watch modern porn. The stuff I do wtcht seems generally better but in fairness, I can't comment on stuff post 1985.
6 years ago