Well exactly, part of my fear was that I would be
falling asleep during the ceremony. Once being
used to shooting porn, almost everything else becomes very boring!
But this was around 95, before the internet
really boomed, and it was very difficult to make
money with VHS porn distribution, so I was eager
to make the $500 with the wedding shoot. Then in
97 I made my first website from which I started
selling my own VHS tapes and had a few periods in
which I was making $1000 a day by duplicating a
few cassettes and putting them on the mail.
Today it's difficult to make money with porn
though, due to all the piracy. If I add a new
video to my member sections tomorrow, it can be
downloaded for free from various torrent and tube
sites a few weeks later already. A lot of
producers gave up already. So becoming a wedding
videographer becomes interesting again, because
that market will never get affected by the piracy problem :-)
By the way, around 95 I smelled fire one night,
looked out of the window and saw that a huge
factory was on fire. So I drove there with my
camcorder and registered the fire and then put an
ad in a local newspaper, trying to sell VHS
copies. I think I sold about 4 copies, but I also
got about 40 very angry phone calls. These were
people who had worked there and were upset about
me monetizing their misery. lol!
(a lot has changed between the pre-internet days
and today, hasn't it? I think I liked the pre-internet time better)
At 21-7-2012 01:10, Mike Boom wrote:
>
>
>At 03:32 PM 7/20/2012, Rieni wrote:
> >lol I remember I was asked once to video tape a wedding. I was short
> >of cash at that time so I accepted the job, for about $500.
>
>Wait a second -- don't you make blue movies, Rieni? Wouldn't that
>make for a really different kind of wedding video? I can just see the
>bride and groom when they realize the video services extend beyond
>the ceremony...
>
>We all have our specialties,
>
>Mike Boom
>
>
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