A Complete Guide To Filming Your Own Porn Movie! ( Updated For 2023 With New Content And New Movie Screen Shots! From Porn Doll's® Entertainment. )
Pictures ( To Make It Less Dull. ) Featuring - Larry Vinaver, Alexus Minotaur, Damien Godard, Chase Stone, Khloe Skye, and Serenity Kristan.
By Serenity Kristan.
All The Free Software You Might Need!
OBS Studio - Video Capture.
Windows Movie Maker - Video Editor.
IMovie ( For Macs ) - Video Editor.
Clip Champ - Video Editor With AI Auto Editing. ( Great For Short Music Videos. )
Singularity Viewer - Low Lag SL Viewer.
Hi, I'm Serenity Kristan. You may remember me from such Porn Movies as Electric Pornstars Star Wars Holiday Special, Night Of The Giving Head, Knight Rider's, Serenity Does Aerobixxx, and The Wrong Side Of Town.
I started in 2009, shooting a movie in a skybox at my Escort Club. Purely to promote it with a sexy video. I thought it was beyond me at first and it was maybe too hard to try. But the truth is, if you can frame a decent photograph in Second Life, you can also become a movie Director!
What You'll Need To Film SL Porn.
First off, you'll need something like OBS Studio. Which is a totally free Video Capture/Streaming Software. You'll need the Screen Capture elements of the program for recording Second Life. But it's cool to have software that does both. Click here to grab it! For Windows or Mac users. You can experiment with settings in OBS to get the balance of file size and quality you're happy with. Or just simply go with the default settings. You can even configure your own choice of hotkeys to start and end clip recording. This is useful for me as I got used to certain keys on my previous software. And I was able to just continue using them with OBS.
Getting Past Slow Frame Rates If Using Less Powerful Computers/Hardware.
I have a less-than-amazing PC for movie production myself. As a result, i have picked up a few tricks to enable smooth, decent frame rates when filming. My first tip which will improve things hugely, is to use the "Singularity Viewer" Click here! Rather than the much heavier on the system "Firestorm", "Black Dragon", or others. You will immediately notice so much less lag when you log in with Singulairty.
Another top tip from me is, You will be shocked at how much you can reduce the Second Life window size and still hit a 720p HD video file size. This also aids frame rates and speeds up everything in world. Animations, walking around, and how fast things rez. An alt with an empty inventory can also be a help as a camera person. If you yourself are not in the scene.
DVD-quality video allows a tiny reduced screen size of the SL Viewer. Around only 720×576 pixels! You can reduce Second Life to maybe a quarter of your regular window size to improve lag and frame rates further, and still achieve DVD-quality video.
To help your computer perform at its absolute best for filming. I suggest total control of your environment. Enclosed spaces or skyboxes give you higher FPS ( Frames Per Second. ). Higher FPS is the goal of any director in SL looking to produce attractive movies. You're helping your computer along, by not having it draw a whole sim or ocean. If you're laggy, a more simple environment is better. If you only call on your computer to draw a skybox interior at 4000m in the air in SL and not a stunning beach that draws on your graphics card and computer resources so much the better. So, don't use locations like a beach or any busy areas. Where your computer is constantly trying to draw water, people, and many other objects. Get away from all this, and all those scripts on the ground completely. Create a studio skybox high above it all. This will mean you are well away from most things sucking all your speed. Just have yourself there, and only "essential" avatars to the project. You can be creative with these studio sets, it does not have to be a limitation. In fact, building film sets and stages can become one of the most fun, and rewarding elements of the movie production.
You can also get a whole bunch of extra RAM to make your PC or laptop run
SL better, by turning off many unneeded features of your operating
system. "Adjust For Best Performance" will leave your operating
system looking a little less pretty, but all that RAM is now free to be
unleashed on your filming and the running of Second Life!
Framing The Scene.
Frame the scene you wish to film, just as if you were going to take a snapshot in SL. If it's a sex animation or dance, watch the whole animation through its sequence and make sure there is no bad 'Clipping or Clashing' of bodies, and that you have your scene nicely framed for the whole duration of the anim. Once you're satisfied you have it, simply hit the record button.
Editing Your Movie.
If you're a Windows user you can easily get hold of Windows Movie Maker Click here! If you don't already have it. It's totally free. If you use a Mac you have IMovie. My lovely hot friend and blog founder Emmanuelle Jameson made all her iconic Porn movies with this. Whatever you have you already have access to editing software right now. If you don't have it installed then you should be able to go and get your free copy, just google it. Some great movies have been produced on these free editing suites. Back in the day, i won Sexiest Porn Award's for best director and sex scene on a movie edited in Windows Movie Maker. So it's not always about high-end software and hardware.
Most editing software is set out in the same way. You'll see an import option for you to bring in all the clips you shot with Fraps/OBS Or your choice of Capture Software. Below the space allocated for your clips, you'll see a timeline ( a row where your clips will go ).
You simply add your clips to the timeline by dragging and dropping them in the order you want them to run in the movie.
If you watch any RL movie or TV show you'll notice scenes do not abruptly run into each other. One way to avoid this is to fade, or transition between your clips. In windows movie maker where you see "Timeline" bottom left, you'll be able to switch to "Storyboard" This also shows you the movie you're building in a linear row of clips, but it's in thumbnails, and you'll also notice smaller boxes between clips. These areas are for your transition effects, which you can drag and drop into place.
If you watch any RL movie or TV show you'll notice scenes do not abruptly run into each other. One way to avoid this is to fade, or transition between your clips. In windows movie maker where you see "Timeline" bottom left, you'll be able to switch to "Storyboard" This also shows you the movie you're building in a linear row of clips, but it's in thumbnails, and you'll also notice smaller boxes between clips. These areas are for your transition effects, which you can drag and drop into place.
Look for things such as "Transitions" and "Effects".Clicking on one and watching the preview window screen will show you just how they will look on your movie project. Transitions cover fades, wipes, and blends you can use to take things smoothly from one clip to another. Effects give you more artistic input and a more professional end result. You can experiment all you like before saving the final edit.
Transitions and effects in software are a matter of personal taste. But handled well they can add a lot to a movie. My advice is, don't go crazy with every novelty transition and effect. maybe use a more elaborate transition between locations in a movie or fresh scenes, but just use a simple fade between shots in one sequence. You don't want to distract too much, but a well-chosen transition wipe can introduce a new part of the movie nicely. Make them suit the mood and tone, and pace of the movie.
Transitions and effects in software are a matter of personal taste. But handled well they can add a lot to a movie. My advice is, don't go crazy with every novelty transition and effect. maybe use a more elaborate transition between locations in a movie or fresh scenes, but just use a simple fade between shots in one sequence. You don't want to distract too much, but a well-chosen transition wipe can introduce a new part of the movie nicely. Make them suit the mood and tone, and pace of the movie.
My editing software of choice is Sony Vegas. I'd also recommend Adobe Premiere. The Adobe one has the added benefit of linking up with Photoshop very nicely. Which is another software title you can utilize lots in a movie production. In every way from backdrops in movie sets to credits, subtitle style storytelling text, etc. I also use Adobe After Effects for polishing up video clips some more and preparing them for the editing phase.
Editing On Auto Pilot! AI "Hands Off" Movie Editing!
Windows users can now also download Clip Champ. For free! And it's in fact just been acquired by Microsoft for Windows in 2023. This will allow you to produce polished music videos or stylish porn sequences. These are often the type of Videos you'll see uploaded at places like Twitter. They are perfect for producing short movies and hot short Porn scenes. In either manual editor mode or by selecting AI mode! With AI chosen it's really just about dragging and dropping your clips and letting your PC and Clip Champ's AI do its thing. It's never been easier to become a Second Life Video producer!
Planning And Shooting A Movie.
Personally, i like to have a concept or a story of some kind. An example is my first-ever movie. It was 99% sex. But I thought, why is this girl having sex for 99% of this movie? Then I just added some text at the start to say she was lost, on the wrong side of town and escorted her way to her cab fare. This is not an elaborate story, but it gives the movie a little more than just another sex flick.
So keeping things simple like that is ideal for your first movie. Dance poles and other lively animations are all great for practice too.
Alternate angles, and "zooming in" can also hide things such as 'Clipping', bodies clashing together, or out of alignment. So take your time. Do not shoot the first thing you see! I have salvaged many shots by "hiding" the bad parts of an anim out of the frame.
An important thing to do is watch TV or RL Porn. But don't just sit back and enjoy as usual. Really, really look. Take note of how the pros edit and shoot. Try to emulate as much as you can. Timing, pacing, camera movement, shot selections, transitions etc. You'll start to see many differences between RL productions and some of the SL video you thought was terrible. Now you'll know why it was so bad, and you can avoid making your own!
Short Second Life Porn Video's - Social Media & The Next Generation.
I like to say we've seen a whole new subgenre of Second Life Porn Movies emerge in recent times. And it's hugely popular within Second Life communities on Social Media such as Twitter/X or even at hosts such as Flickr or Slushe which allow short Video Uploads. Just join our Sexiest Pornstars Community at Twitter/X and see it for yourself. I'm seeing so many amazing, and hot short videos. And they can be simply a 20-second clip, the duration of one Animation. Or even lasting the full 2:20 run time at Twitter/X. This genre of Second Life Porn has tempted some of the best Photographers on the scene into giving Video production a go. And some of the short films are stunning. With 100% of the creator's efforts concentrated on one short clip rather than a longer movie. We start to see quality really go up. And specialist lighting can also be used rather than a more generic 'safe' light for all angles which often has to be utilized in longer films. Making the whole shot much more like some of the top-end photography we've seen for many years on our porn scene.
This style of movie-making has got so popular i suggested a brand new Short Movie Category be created at the 2023 SX Porn Awards. And it was a very successful busy category this year! Which all makes becoming a movie director of note even more accessible. Combined with some of the advice above. And now with AI "hands off" movie Editing too in software such as Clip Champ. It really is the best time to start producing Porn videos in Second Life.
To Finish Up.
I could write until next Christmas about shooting movies in SL. Once you begin, if you're serious and interested and creative you'll be always improving and evolving. learning and developing. There is much more than I've covered here. This was aimed at getting you started. Nobody minds passing on tips and helping others in our community if they can. So ask away if you're stuck, listen to more experienced directors and you'll improve some more.
The best advice I can give is do not rush, plan everything, make it as good as you can. Everybody will respect you if you have done your best, I promise you. Others involved can spot effort and creativity a mile off, no matter where you sit on the learning curve.
The best advice I can give is do not rush, plan everything, make it as good as you can. Everybody will respect you if you have done your best, I promise you. Others involved can spot effort and creativity a mile off, no matter where you sit on the learning curve.
So, if you truly make something you are proud of, it will show through. I promise you you'll have all the excitement of the production, plus you will entertain us all! From experience, I can also pass on that if you're having fun, excited, or even turned on by what you're filming, the end product is even better. In a way you kind of have to have sex in the editing phase too! Selecting when and where you show off the sexy positions you captured on screen, and where those hot clips you filmed go in the timeline. Let the order you'd like to experience it your self-guide you in the edit. The more you enjoy that, the better the finished scene I find. It's both organic and orgasmic! If you get a fraction of that into the final video you've made some awesome porn!
( I guess you know I was horny if my sex scenes were good on screen now!? )
Serenity. 💋
I've Been Enjoying Making Second Life Porn Movies Since 2009. From the outset, I was Always Inspired to push myself to do better while having a ton of fun. My thoughts, and my Thanks are Always there for Fellow Movie Maker's who have always inspired me and helped me In times gone by - Hard Rust, Alexus Minotaur, Quinn Ying, and the lovely Jennnna/Emmanuelle Jameson.
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| 2009 - Sexiest Award Winning Movie - Paradise Isle - Starring Emmanuelle Jameson & Serenity Kristan. |
Love you Emma. Thank you for everything. x
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