How many times do you watch a porn movie all the way, start to finish? My hunch is the answer would be very few: that is very few times do you watch a porn flick like a "normal" flick. This has been on my mind lately because I've had to watch the same porn movie repeatedly lately. Of course it is a movie that I scripted, cast, helped film and then edited. It is our newest porn release, All About the Hole. By my calculations, I've watched the actual video, what you see, too, a total of 5 times, not counting watching the actual choreographed action while it was happening, nor counting the minutes and seconds you see while editing.

1. First I watch the raw, unedited footage. For All About the Hole, that meant 4 one hour tapes. We had 2 camera guys, one doing close-ups and another (this was me) to do distant shots. I edited those 4 hours down to a video that came in at 1 hour and 18 minutes. I don't count the editing process in this accounting, but it took me roughly 6 days, several hours per day, to reach a point where I inserted "The End" for All About the Hole.
2. Next comes the initial viewing of the final edit. What did I miss? What tightening of footage needs to happen? Any awkward moments to fix?
3. Next you take that hopefully totally final edit and from it create a DVD. Before you actually burn it onto a disc, you view this version, the un-burned but nearly final DVD, too.
4. Now you burn the disc with your DVD and this will presumably become your master, the disc from which all copies are made. After you burn the master guess what? Of course you take that master disc and insert it into a DVD player and watch it, start to finish, plus you check the menu to make sure it functions properly.
5. If you have a perfect master then you're ready to make copies. I made a handful to start and then, of course, I watched the first copy all the way, start to finish, just to be absolutely certain nothing was wrong.

Not exactly like making sausage, and truth be told, if you've done a good job, you'll have a boner much of the time as you watch all the action, but watching the same porn movie 5 times, start to finish, over the course of a few days can lead to fatigue.

People ask me what part of this process do I enjoy more and it is the editing that I love most of all. Sure I enjoy the hunt for just the right mix of guys to cast. That process can take months and lead down many paths that become dead ends. Always one ends up compromising your vision to deal with the facts on the ground and that is certainly true when everyone arrives on the set and filming begins. There are very few porn actors I've worked with who are truly professional. That is to say, very few guys can perform any role on command with ease and finesse. Most of the men I work with need lots of stroking of egos. Most require a fair amount of manipulation to get what I want. You have to find out what they enjoy. What turns them on and what are their limits? Then you apply all that knowledge to the actual action you'll be filming. Ever watched a porn movie and thought to yourself, "Geez, these guys look bored." That, my friend, is the sign of bad casting decisions or a director who doesn't know how to recognize what each performer brings with them and how to make them do their best on your set that day.

Making All About the Hole was, comparatively speaking, pretty darn easy. I found a great cast fairly quickly, though one hottie did drop out in the last few days because his band suddenly had a club gig that took him out of town. A couple members of the cast were what I'd call prima donna's but that gets removed in the editing process. My star bottom, Cam Casey, was reliable and drama free -- always a very good thing. He was also very enthusiastic in his role as our primo power bottom which goes a long way setting the mood when you've got a room full of tops who must perform on command. My novice to the porn world, Skyler Underwood, quickly fit into his job and with almost no directing gave us some very hot action footage. About the only direction I had to give him involved how to position his dick at just the right angle for some penetration shots. The scene where Skyler fucks Cam gets more time than just about any other sequence because Skyler was clearly enjoying it all and the camera picked up on that. A couple of photos of Cam and Skyler are included below.

The work we pornographers must do to satisfy the desires and needs of our fans! But it is nice work if you can get it. Want to get a sneak peak of the results of my latest work? Click on either of the pictures, below, to see a clip of All About the Hole starring Cam Casey, Jason Sparks, Josh Kole, Tommy Deluca, and several others.