Legitimate Custom Gay Fetish Video Question
Hi girls!
This is my first post so I would like to make it an awesome one. I recently started dating an incredible girl who was 100% on board with my dream of doing porn, and within the last couple months I've made a lot of progress in the industry, including finding this forum ;D
I've signed us up for Xtube amateurs, submitted scenes for review at Homegrown Video, started filming strange fetish content for Clips4Sale, and submitted my info to Streamate and AdultWork. They are slow to respond and goddamn adultwork wants a passport... :'(
I'm straight as hell haha but totally into doing gay for pay, which is what my question is about. I was recently asked to do a custom video where I get into a bath, fully clothed, then submerge myself repeatedly while commenting about how it feels. Then I prop my feet up on the edge of the tub, take my shoes off and wiggle my toes. He didn't ask me to say his name or anything, and he wants it to be around 5 minutes.
I've read on here that you typically go anywhere from 5-10 bucks a minute for customs, and I'm just really unsure on what to charge for this. It's nonsexual (at least to me) but it's also kind of involved and I'm going to end up with a bunch of soaking wet clothes that I'll need to dry...
Lets say it ends up being 6 minutes long; what would you charge?
Also, he asked if he could pay via Paypal which I totally would have agreed to if it wasn't for this forum, so thank you all!!!;)
EDIT: Also I have lurked on here forever and read like hundreds and hundreds of pages of posts before posting myself. I have never found anything about how much you charge for foot fetish videos where you have to get in a bathtub fully clothed. Just so you know, I'm no virgin to the search function on forums, I just really want an answer to this so I'm not over or undercharging.
Re: Legitimate Custom Gay Fetish Video Question
welcome to sw
as far as how much to charge, everyone has a different comfort level but I look at it like there's as much prep for a 10 min video as there is for a 5-6 min video, so I don't charge half the 10 min fee for a 5 min video. My prices tend to be all over the place, if there's little prep and I can easily resell the clip I charge less than I would for a comparable length clip with a ton of prep that's uber-specific to one guy. That said, I always have a price minimum that works for me and reflects the cost of my time. I'd charge the same for a 2 min clip as I would for a 5 min clip, and for something easy/fun/resellable that would be $30-$50 depending on where I'm selling it (ie how much the payment processor takes). For something complicated, messy or hard to resell it would be significantly more
I look at like what guys are paying us for is our time...not just shooting the clip, but prep work and editing as well. A simple 10 min clip could take 15 mins to prep/shoot/edit, a complicated 5 min clip could take 30 mins. The latter clip would cost more even though it's shorter.
While the clip sounds easy to resell, since he wants you to get your clothes (and shoes!!) wet if I were you I'd charge alot more than a comparable clip with nudity. Fetish isn't about nudity, so recognize that both on cam and in clips, there are things far more valuable to customers than tits/ass/pussy/cock. Don't underestimate the value of those 'non-nudity' related assets.
$5 per min for a 5 min clip ($25) sounds really low for that brief, I'd say $50 or higher for the clip would be more reasonable. Get paid upfront if he's a new customer, and upload the clip to your c4s and other content sites as well, unless the guy pays a ton more for an exclusive custom.
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Awesome, thank you so much! Yeah I was definitely planning on uploading to Xtube and C4S as well, and I told him I would shoot for around 5 minutes at 6 bucks a minute. I think I'm going to stretch it out a little bit and make it like a little over 7 minutes which would be like 45 bucks. That combined with the resell value definitely makes it worth it to me.
Once again, thank you for the detailed and quick response!
Re: Legitimate Custom Gay Fetish Video Question
Loveshooks is correct, they are paying for the time effort and energy and for having their fetish catered to. I don't know that I would stretch the clip out unless you can do it in a way that doesn't seem obvious. If you want 45 bucks just tell him five minutes is 45 bucks. Get payment upfront and deliver the clip on time. If he balks at the price let him walk. Don't undersell, or you will just wind up with a cheap customer base.
I don't know if you know about justusboys but you might want to lurk around that forum a bit you will learn quite a bit about gay porn and it's consumers. I would argue there is a certain art to making gay4pay really profitable but be aware the popularity of that marketing device is losing a little luster, with it's audience. It is still very profitable if done well. /gay porn fan LOL