If you’re interested in the world of movie-making (from a practical viewpoint, rather than Hollywood), I recommend Greg Pak’s FilmHelp site. It has lots of useful info about equipment, procedures, promotion and so on for making shorts, documentaries and semi-pro movies. I found it a while ago, but I’ve started reading it again after a fun weekend or two playing with video editing software, err, and reading about how porno movies are made. The book is
Once More with Feeling, about how two people decide to make a better class of porn movie. It’s funny, and offers an interesting insight into a world you don’t normally see. It’ll be interesting to compare it to the other book I ordered in a similar vein, when that arrives. The other book is much more of a hands-on affair, as far as I can tell.

It’s not that I’ve got any sort of urge to be the next Ben Dover, but it does combine my (theoretical) interests in film-making and pornography, and I’ve often wondered what is actually involved. Like the authors of ‘Once More, With Feeling’, I’ve thought that I could possibly do better (behind the camera - I’m not interested in anything that grotesque!). I’ve seen a fair bit of lower end stuff where they have the talent on screen, but the camera work and sound are dismal, or the guy is obviously the director’s brother.