I'm thinking I'll finally get around to shooting one of my scripts, but before I take the plunge I just wanted to ask, does anyone have any regrets (or words of caution) about become a producer? Or, I guess, about maybe NOT producing material when you had the opportunity?

Nick

No regrets looking back at my 20 years of producing. I have met some great people who I had great fun and still have great fun with them even 20 years later.

Just wish I was 34 and not 54 but nothing stops time

Lenny

I regret not starting 10 years ago.

Exactly the same as Meathook

Been at this for 12 years.

I regret using raw Tempra paint (specifically blue) in a scene many years ago as it tends to stain skin and last for several days.

I regret using melted store-brand marshmallows because they are REEEAAALLLY sticky and have ruined a couple of shoots by gluing the model to herself, her hair, her clothes, the floor etc.

I regret not shooting certain girls more frequently before they retired from modelling unexpectedly

I wish I had the courage to start this 20 years ago.


PGKay

I'm sure glad that you did eventually start doing this! :lovestruck:

Norman

Regrets : one big one for me & that is not being open and honest about my passion for too many year. Keeping it hidden and then found out later on and caused me so many personal issues. I wish I had done what I love from day one and not been so shy about it.

I'm personally thinking about hanging up my camera and turning m back on WAM as it's been such a struggle for me. I do this for fun & not a living so that's one bonus but my site is 100% non profit making all my funds go back into future shoots and boots etc...

One thing to note is producing content is additive and alot of fun with the correct partner or willing model but make sure you tell them 100% up front of what you expect even tell them more if you can & if they are cool with it then go for it !!

Hope that helps

Jason

Concur with Lenny. No overall regrets, cos I started making WAM videos in 1991, which was good timing, cos we enjoyed 14 years of "the golden age" of wam video making from 1991 to 2005, i.e. the pre-Youtube era when financing and producing wam videos were a viable and a self sustaining concept. It is ironic that this week Youtube have changed their logo to their new 10th anniversary logo since they launched. Youtube has been great for fans of free media but these last 10 years since Youtube arrived have been a deathspiral for most small time wam producers, and then things became even more unviable since the advent of pocket sized cheap HD cameras, smartphones, the GoPro et all. I am glad Lenny and I were able to do the things we did together, cos in recent years this has now become impossibe to do what we were able to do in the 1990's. So...I am not thinking about "regrets" as per Frank Sinatra songs, cos I have no regrets, and the more relevant song today is the classic by Peggy Lee ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZk7jP0LkM

My only regret would be the missed opportunity we had in the late 1990's, where my business partner at that time failed to tell me "who" he was shooting and so he shot this unknown model (at that time) without thinking to invite me to attend and do some wam shoots while he had booked her for the day. So, he went ahead and shot this model on his own doing some benign and boring topless and nude shoots in his swimming pool, never asking me if I wanted to attend and do some wam shoots with her. He only paid her $150 for 4 hours of modelling work, and he only showed me photos from his shoot 3 months later, and then I slapped my head and said..."do you know who that is"....and he said "nope...she was just one of four models I hired that day". I then told him that I recognized her as being one of Hugh Hefner's party girls who had become Hef's "girlfriend" and was now Playboy Playmate of the Month. And so 6 months later she became "Playmate of the Year" and then Greg Bonan (the creator of Baywatch) had signed her to play the lead actress in the new "Baywatch Hawaii" series.

As Paul Harvey used to say "her name was Brande Roderick....and now you know the rest of the story" .

Imagine getting a famous Baywatch actress to do a pie scene for only $150...and your partner not thinking to invite you to participate and do some wam scenes when he had her booked for the entire day.

MK

Hi Mark

Having met you and your lovely bevy of ladies has been a real source of joy in my life. I totally agree there is no profit in producing WAM videos and I guess we will go like the dinosaurs. But I am glad we have done what we did

I guess really thinking about it my only regret is not having pied a real celebrity. I have pied many porn stars and Seka (my idol when I was 20) and I have become great friends (I am chapter 52 in her autobiography)

But I keep on hoping and when I do pie that celebrity that will be full circle for me

Lenny

Well Lenny,

you came very close when you were chatting with Linda Blair for weeks and she was interested in doing some wam scenes and had made a commitment and you and I were all set to finance that project and were prepared to fly out to LA to do those shoots....cos you caught her at the right time, when she was out of work and badly needing to raise money to support her animal shelter. Everything was a green light to go, until at the last minute she backed out because she received a better offer to host a reality tv ghost story series for the SyFy Channel and so she backed out because she was afraid that working with a fetish company could scuttle her tv deal. I dunno why mainstream actresses worry about working for fetish companies, cos they do far worse things like making home made sex tapes...cos that is what launched the careers of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

You also came close to hiring Sybil Danning as well...and as you know the last time we worked together I mentioned that I could get scream queen Linnea Quigley to do some pies and gunge scenes for us because she lives near us in the Ft Lauderdale area and was willing to work for 2 grand for 2 days, which is not much more than we pay our regular porn star models anyways, but you declined because she did not pass Lenny's "Russ Meyer test"...i.e. cos you have always been the Russ Meyer of the WAM world...i.e. a director famous for only hiring big boobed women for his films, and Linnea Quigley is flat chested.

You had all the contacts Lenny, cos your multi-milionaire friend Stan Glass owned the movie studios in California where the NCIS tv show was shot for the last decade, so Stan had said he knew Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), Heather Thomas and many other mainstream actresses he could introduce you to.

You have to either get lucky and film somebody before they become famous or very rich, or catch them on the way down when they are out of work and need money. FYI our partner Tracie had a best friend in the UK who was also an adult glamour model at that time. Tracie offered to get her friend to come over and work on our shoots in the 1990's, but we had enough girls so I did not book her. Years later Tracie's friend moved to the USA and met the actor Greg Kinnear and married him, so now she is married to an A list Hollywood star, so if we had done those shoots with her that footage would worth a fortune today, cos I am sure her hubby would want to buy it back from us to take it out of circulation, cos that is what happened with softcore actress Anoushka Hempel in the UK....she later married Lord Weinberg and became Lady Weinberg and then her hubby spent millions buying up all the rights to all the films she made in her early adult career to take them out of circulation.

Anyway...when you have some leads on a B grade actress who is willing to do some wam scenes....give me a call and I will split the costs with you.

MK

Hi Mark

Yes Stan Glass was a great contact but he tradgically pasted away in May of 2013. I think I will ask Seka to ask Sybil Danning again because I know they are good friends

Lenny

Meeting Lenny and helping on a shoot was one of the greatest moments I've had as a wammer... I really hope to do it again this year when he comes down to shoot.

Hey Lenny

Here is how Sybil Danning looks today at aged 62 in a 2015 interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMePVypPiCs

She seems to be holding up pretty good for her age, considering other actresses of a similar age now look pretty scary (e.g. Brinke Stevens) and she looks better than I do now that I just turned 60 and now I look like hell...ha ha

MK