Well, here we are at Naughty Towers on a Sunday afternoon, and to be honest we're a bit bored. We've just spent the last two hours in the dungeon, with a naked under footman strapped to the rack, pouring cupfuls of increasingly hot water over his genitals, trying to establish at which temperature he'll begin to scream.
Well we sort of lost track of our calibrations, so just turned the water heater up to max - that did the trick, Mr.Naughty's ears are still ringing. But to be honest our heart wasn't really in it; and having already placed bets on how long the gamekeeper would survive in the estate grounds once we unleashed the pack of hyenas earlier in the week, we thought we'd have a go at making another home porn movie.
Now, we've made quite a few, and are very proud and happy with their content. However, no matter what we try, and only using a Sony Handycam, the finished picture quality is not as good as we'd like; especially when viewed on a larger screen.
Can anyone advise us on what sort of camera we'd need to buy/hire, and what sort of lighting rig and how to set it up, so that we'd get a better quality result.
We're loth to march into Jessops and ask a spotty oik of a Saturday worker how best to make a porn movie. (we don't usually speak to his type anyway, we leave that to the staff).
Campers, their Naughtynesses are obviously preoccupied with this task to the extent they have disappeared, do we have any budding Michael Ninn's out there??
If you want it to be really good then it's gotta bet HD. I always buy Sony out of brand loyalty (stupidity), we haven't yet bought a HD camera but we WILL!
Have you watched our post on the blog? That was done with a little handycam and a flexible lounge uplighter thingy, oh and a tripod. The camera has a remote control for zooming which helps. You also have to be willing to stop and adjust things if you've only got one camera.
Ah a tragic delete indeed sxe-couple l must get around to speaking to you both about that, sometime soon, any other campers out there indulging in this activity in a seasonal attempt to keep warm !!!
Eek just cottoned onto the fact that my initial missive might be construed as a cack handed attempt to solicit your moral corruption with a view to seeing you at some point in the future in the buff... or am l reading too much into.......
me and my wife have made some really wild homemade porn movies too but my camera broke so im having to use the camera on my phone atm, which is missing alot of the action where due to it being on my phone is so shakey but we do the best we can, so i know how your feeling oh too well
Any good cam to use and what should I do about bring it up and trying it out help please
Not sure about camera types as Im not a photographer, perhaps look at some of the top of the range ones if you really want good quality.
I can't believe your man would be shy about being taped or pictured in sexual acts seeing as on another thread you mentioned you've had two threesomes? External Media
I don't bother about the quality of the camera for film or stills. Its an intimate time together and shared together. It is just about us and the risque element rather than creating a cinematic work of art. Just my opinion External Media
I posted in this thread first time around so now I can post again with my HD knowledge...
Camera's? In a word; Canon. The HV40 is the best in my opinion but pretty difficult to get hold of a PAL version in the uk.
Other sensors tend to oversaturate especially in the reds making people look like they've just been to Tenerife.
If you want to go really sophisticated go the 1080p DSLR route, so Canon 5d MKII, 7d or 550d/T2i. With a good (prime) lense you really can get outstanding results but then again this is full manual so not for the feint hearted (and will need to be attended to during).
Editing? Vegas Pro, Final Cut Pro etc. just make sure you render in the correct format/quality or else there's no point.
Personally for me (/us) we get more out of it having something slick that looks like a full blown porno rather than grainy webcam footage. Editing together is fun and showing it off to any of your close (read f*ck buddy) isn't bad either.
I really wish we could show it round more often. I did once post an early effort on the blog but with Mrs SXE's job we decided it wasn't wise.
I think as long as you have a decent quality camera (cheap / no-name ones have crap lenses which is the sticking point these days) a lot of the end result will depend on angles and lighting.
There are loads of amateur photographic / video websites and forums out there full of good advice (although not specifically about porn I'd imagine!). It's very easy to blame the tools but even an old DV or Hi8 camera can produce good pictures given the right conditions.
You can also reverse-engineer it, watch some porn that you like and work out how they made it look like they did - what camera angles, poses, lighting etc. they were using.
Oh and beware of what you do with the videos - chances are they fall under US or UK obscenity laws if which have sprung up over the last few years to help protect us from the terrorists / paedophiles / thinking too much.
I know US law requires that files are kept on everyone's birth certificate or similar to prove that everyone in any movie or photo was of legal age when it was produced, you'll see mention of it on a lot of websites and movies these days. God bless freedom eh?
A word of warning - footage of me being taken rather forcefully from behind, followed by some anal and very loud orgasms, was shown at the university rugby club dinner. My ex was a shit. I had no idea I was even being filmed.
A word of warning - footage of me being taken rather forcefully from behind, followed by some anal and very loud orgasms, was shown at the university rugby club dinner. My ex was a shit. I had no idea I was even being filmed.
SS xx
Oooo arkward... I can only hope he lacks in some department/skill that was blindingly obvious.
A word of warning - footage of me being taken rather forcefully from behind, followed by some anal and very loud orgasms, was shown at the university rugby club dinner. My ex was a shit. I had no idea I was even being filmed.
SS xx
Hey, SS. I'm sorry you had to endure that uber div. What he did was illegal and a moral breach of trust. The fact that he made the material public makes him very lucky that you didn't take legal action. I'm glad to hear he's out of your hair.
Regardless of resolution, all camera lens have an F factor to gauge the quality. So for example, even if a mobile phone has a super high resolution, the fact that it has a crappy plastic bead for a lens will impair the quality.
Secondly, compression can blur the image considerably. The problem here is that cameras (digital cameras) compress the video as it is recorded and, most commonly these days it will be in some variation of the MPEG4 codec known as h.264, an example of which is the adobe flash codec found on youtube (it has a different suffix of dot.flv but it is essentially the same).
When you come to edit the video, you will need video editing software that can read MPEG4 (mp4) files and then , once you have snipped out the giggles and added the wah-wah-bass-guitar, you will need to save the final file, probably to mpeg4 again (such as on a blu-ray disc). This double compression will reduce colour, light (luminosity) and resolution, even if you keep them all the same. Just to be a geek I'll let you know that Shannon's Theorum dictates that you need to sample (record) in twice the resolution (quality) than that which you want to playback in. As HD comes in two resolutions (1280x720 and full HD 1920x1080), optimally you will want to record in full HD and save the edited version in 1280x720 pixels.
Btw Full HD tends to be known as 1080. 1080p (progressive) is higher quality than 1080i (interlace) and 1080p can generally also process 1080i. Examples you will find of these two resolutions 720 and 1080, are that the BBC iPlayer conserves internet bandwidth by using 720 but Blu-Ray discs have larger storage and so many are available in full 1080.
Of course your skin flick will be indoors (I hope?!) and so you will have artificial light which creates shadows and dark areas. Because of the genre you are aiming for, I anticipate there will be many nooks and crannies you want to capture. Digital cameras always suffer with this and so it is better to have better lighting and a reasonable camera than the other way around. You can buy diffusers to soften hard light or you can hold some white card above the "area" you are filming, and so the light will bounce of the card onto said area.
computeractive gives fantastic camera guides and their jargon buster is fantastic because they adhere to the crystal mark of clarity. You can get the mag in most newsagents or at the supermarket for under 2 quid. If I have splurged to much jargon at you, then go check them out. They are a Co dot Uk site.
Dont really know if you even want to spend as much as the cost of a camera on full HD or if you want just something cheap for £100 with good low light quality and small manuverabilty for awkard angles. The latter (Flip Video Ultra camcorder) you can find here, amongst many more:
You can always buy a cheap camera and a mega expensive good one so that you can get a numer of tripods set up.
So an alternative to get around all these problems is to record analogue and then sample to digital using a tv capture card or usb device, but I doubt you'd do that.
I was going to say - lighting should be your main concern! I filmed my sex tape with a Canon IXUS's movie mode, but with peak summer sunlight streaming through my window onto our bodies - and it looked great!
Hey, SS. I'm sorry you had to endure that uber div. What he did was illegal and a moral breach of trust. The fact that he made the material public makes him very lucky that you didn't take legal action. I'm glad to hear he's out of your hair.
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A word of warning - footage of me being taken rather forcefully from behind, followed by some anal and very loud orgasms, was shown at the university rugby club dinner. My ex was a shit. I had no idea I was even being filmed.
SS xx
Damn right I'm well shot of him! He was binned immediately - that was the same morning I found he'd peed drunkenly in my revision notes. I didn't take legal action; I did however report him to the university authorities, who stripped him of his rugby captaincy, and barred him from both the student union and all college bars for the rest of his time at uni. That effectively meant he couldn't attend any of the various balls, parties, formal dinners that happened on graduation. Definitely counted as hitting him where it hurts.
