LOS ANGELES – A group of adult entertainment industry veterans has banded together to teach others how to find fame and fortune in the skin trade with a project they call Adult Business Seminars: Teaching You How to Make and Sell Porn.Classes, the first of which are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles Oct. 9-11, are designed to give aspiring directors, performers and entrepreneurs a “jump start” in the industry, according to the founders. Instructors include Ron Jeremy, Shy Love, Nina Hartley, Bishop and Ben Kraus.
“To provide our students a legitimate and realistic experience, it is our objective that our attendees will have the ability to immediately apply everything they have learned,” Jeremy said. “This includes shooting their own live, hardcore sex scene using today’s hottest adult superstars. Students will own the rights to whatever they shoot. The tape goes home with them.”
Added multiple-award-winning director Bishop, “We will teach our attendees the mechanics of production. For experienced and non-experienced directors, we are confident we can provide immeasurable value to any individual who is creative and innovative. If your aspiration is to be a director in the adult space, this educational training is highly encouraged.”
Love, owner of Adult Talent Managers, said the concept is to go beyond the basics and provide students with more than just a “peek behind the curtain.” By employing well-known, successful, long-term industry members as teachers, ABS intends to give those who attend the seminars a solid foundation in the legal, technical, organizational and performance underpinnings of brick-and-mortar and online success.
“Even during today’s economic crisis, the adult industry is still a strong $10 billion-dollar-a-year industry,” Love said. “If taught correctly, anyone with passion and a little training can be a lucrative porn producer.”
Currently, the three “modules” offered by ABS are a home-study course and two “flavors” of classroom experience. The classroom versions encompass intensive, hands-on training in subjects including the creation of adult business concepts, developing production budgets, hiring talent, performer testing protocols, building a production strategy (camera placement, set design, sound and lighting), pre- and post-production strategies and essentials, marketing the finished product and monetizing content using multiple business verticals.
ABS offerings are open to the public, and instructors welcome everyone without regard to adult-related experience or lack thereof. Courses range in price from $499 to $3,999. An “early bird special” for the debut classroom seminar offers $500 off the regular price when students register by Sept. 9.
For more information, visit AdultBusinessSeminars.com.
