Why The BTS?
I’d admit that at the start of this adventure many moons ago, I was told, “Get BTS. Get BTS!” I was like, “Why do I have to get BTS? Do fans of stars really want to find out stuff about their favourite star, or do they just want to get to the bits where they get naked?” [It can actually be a bit frustrating. You see, people want to become a part of the commune because we have been very successful as such since, well, since many of the current stars were in grade school. … Then, once you finally let them join your little family, they immediately start questioning why you do things the way you do — and of course whining about all the extra work. … Life can be weird around here, even apart from all the beautiful naked people.]
Our first few shoots we didn’t record any Behind The Scenes stuff and just photographed (or shot video on) the model. Hey, I was new and young(ish) back then. [Actually we used to call Maverick “Grasshopper” — which of course most of the current stars are also too young to recognize as a reference to the television series, Kung Fu.]
Now, of course, I understand the added value BTS provides to the content you normally shoot with a model, be it pictures or video scenes. You’ll find out a bit about the model, you’ll leave the camera running while the model is changing (and telling her it is otherwise that would just be “pervey”) and you’ll either have the model just changing or, as in most our cases, the model will play up to the camera, talk to the audience while getting ready, occasionally picking it up and showing views her body. [Gosh. Who in the world could like something like that? What a crazy concept. … ]
If you’re lucky [and I am], you may find some models comfortable with a more traditional interview style, one of more a Q&A, direct to camera. Natalia Forrest falls into that second category, and she’s the subject of today’s set of BTS interviews. Having traveled the world for her modeling career, Natalia’s obviously done lots of interviews to camera and we could see that she was happy talking directly to the lens, even while changing clothes.[What could be better than an honest porn star interview? … Right! … An honest naked porn star interview.]
We’ve said it before that Natalia could have easily had a career as a supermodel with her looks, but we have also been regularly thankful that she chose to work in the adult industry. Our shoots with her have always been a special pleasure. To be honest, Natalia could read the phone book, and we’d sit there listening to her voice all day long. [Well, she happens to be REALLY quiet, so we had to play with the audio tracks A LOT on these clips. It literally took months to get these ready for publication — which actually could have had something to do with how darned pretty she is, come to think of it. You can learn new software with boring samples of dogs, or weird factories, or even clips from independent films provided by ever-hopeful teacher/directors. You can also learn new software using Natalia’s … um … software. Guess which we chose.]
So the reason we now shoot BTS at our shoots? You get to see the model, hopefully at ease during the shoot, being herself. Also we’ve caught many a funny moment or model’s antic to camera while we were not in the room or had our back turned. We’ve come across many of these moments once reviewing the footage and we’ve been told we have a very professional, but laid back way at shoots, one that puts models at ease straight away, and thus you get to see the funny, cheeky, person that a model sometimes hides when on camera being her “public” self. [All in all that sounded like a very long, slightly convoluted sort of way to say we were right all along. Who’d a thunk it?]
Basically, you get to see the person behind the image — or persona of a porn star. We find that fascinating, even while still rather enjoying looking at a female porn star’s naked form (professionally, of course). So next time you think, “Why do they do BTS?” maybe give it a chance and watch it. You might be missing some excellent content. [Hey if they did BTS on mainstream movies with naked people all over the place, a lot more people would watch those too.]