Weird EFF'in Week
So this was the last week of Principal Photography on "Regarding Jenny", and it's all in 'the can'. Ya-fuckin'-hoo.
This was a tough one.
The Movie is being distributed through GMD Films, rather than Marie Madison Media, because it's largely a 'softcore' film designed for a very specific fetish market. Of course, because Maddy's involved there will be a 'hardcore' version that she'll be distributing through her adult channels and on VOD and all of that.
The way the 'Entertainment' Industry in general has shifted, it's almost a neccessity anymore to make rent, that you do whatever you can to straddle as many markets as possible, and over the last several years we've gotten REALLY good at it. It's probably the reason why we're still here, and at least by all outward indications, we're thriving.
Because of Jenny Densuke's own following, for the first time ever, www.GMDFilms.com is getting more traffic than www.MariesPlayPlace.com and not by small margins. Jenny's getting almost 1,000 hits a day more than Marie. Of course, this is an indication of NOTHING, as this project is like nothing we've ever done before, so there's alot of curiosity about it, and alot of people want to check out Jenny.
This week was fuckin' weird.
Maddy got into a big fight with AVN Magazine - no news there. She's been fighting with them since damn near the beginning of her career. Because of the merger and her new distribution deals, and that she's producing basically a feature film every 10 days now, Maddy's become a signifigant player in the 'Adult' arena, so it's been fun to see her slug it out with AVN because now when Maddy takes a swing, they all fucking duck.
We shot some scenes of Jenny and Marie earlier in the week at a local Day Spa, and they both caused quite a stir. A bunch of blue haired old ladies under the dryers got the full on 'porn star' experience as Jenny and Marie rolled in there and everyone just had to meet them. It took about an hour for the room to settle so we could actually begin shooting, but we got some great stuff, and Jenny got pampered a bit.
There she is getting waxed, and here she is getting what the staff started calling a 'Jenny-Pedi'
And here's an especially interesting one of Jenny in the Tanning Bed.
I purposefully saved my own scenes with Jenny for the end of the movie, because I have this weird thing about having sex with people I don't know. I guess, it's not weird in the 'real world', but in porn, it's more or less expected that after the 'hello's' and paperwork, when the camera's rolling that the guy should just whip it out and bring the heat.
I don't 'work' like that. Never have. For me to be able to have actual sex with someone, I have to actually know them a little, in fact, I have to actually LIKE them. There's got to be some kind of chemistry there, or I just can't - physically - 'do it'.
I've been doing this for a long time, and since I started to understand this part of my physiology and psychosis my life in porn has been considerably easier to manage. So I don't put myself into the 'lineup', and I don't write myself into movies. For the last couple of years, I've focused on my job of capturing the action, rather than being a part of it. There's plenty of guys in the company who have the ability to emotionally un-attach and just 'do the job', so if a model wants to work with me, she'll ask - or the chemistry between us will lead us there. And I've gotten way better scenes from it because of it.
So, "Regarding Jenny" was a 10 day shoot, and I was in the script, so I decided to wait until the very end, so that I could work with Jenny for 2 weeks and get to know her, and build some kind of report with her, and I'll tell you... we've been getting along great. She's really a sweet a girl, smart and a good listener, and we've been spending ALOT of time together during this movie, so when it came time for us to actually do a sex scene together, it had a very natural flow to it, and we both had a pretty good time.
This week, Bradley Grace, a staff writer on the show, and one of my best friends for many years, decided to have a total breakdown. Right in the middle of the week, during the filming of his scenes for the movie, his alcohal addiction jumped on his back and wrestled him straight to the ground in what turned out to be a pretty ugly string of events that should have killed him.
Fortunately, it didn't. But it made for a train wreck of a week that left me worried, frazzled and unable to focus fully on what had to be done this week, as the thought of finding him dead somewhere was very much a real possibility.
He wasn't there for the wrap party, so production on the movie closed on an uncomfortable note. I even cancelled Jade's shoot on Friday, for fear that she wouldn't get my full attention that she deserves, and yesterday, her absence left a big empty space in the studio where she should have been. Everyone noticed, and DJ even suggested that we should have had her come up anyway, just to be there. Unfortunately, she lives too far away to expect that of her. She gives so much to this production as it is, I can't expect her to just hang around to hold my hand while the world around me falls apart.
But like all the other productions, we got through it, and this movie is going to really be something unique. I've been cutting scenes as we go along, so I'll settle into the Edit on Monday and probably get it wrapped by Wednesday so that World at Large can finally see what we've been up to the last month.
I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th Of July. "Independence" really means something to us, it's sort of our mantra, and so we'll be celebrating the way all good porn companies do: With lots of meat and friends who like to fuck on film.
Have a great one!
- Mark