Couples in Los Angeles who find adventure lacking in their love lives have a new way of breaking the monotony.
A local company has built a state-of-the art studio complete with various fantasy rooms, in which professional movie makers will film the lovers in fulfilling their various fantasies, the company said on Tuesday.
Live Acts Video, which opened only three months ago, is gradually growing in its popularity, as couples from all walks of life come to experience performing in front of the camera, Chad Bender, says the company's marketing director.
According an article in the Los Angeles Times, Live Acts Video has been inundated with business since it opened its amateur porn movie facility in November. The company's Web site promises to help people turn their fantasies into reality while ensuring complete privacy in a compound with the atmosphere of a luxury spa.
Lodged in a nondescript two story office building in Beverly Hills, the sexy studio features several fantasy sets: a Gothic bedroom with stained glass windows and antique bed, a gleaming, sterile-looking doctors office, a dungeon that exudes an air of baroque pleasures and sado-masochistic indulgences, and even a pseudo barn where couples and anyone else willing to pay the price can cavort for the camera amid bales of straw, old farm equipment and rustic Americana.
The company also plans a flexible fifth studio that can be transformed in a jiffy into an office, locker room, clothing store changing room or whatever other fantasy interior the client fancies.
Frank Keshishian, the owner of Live Acts Video says it is the first business of its kind in the world. Even with prices ranging from US$330 to US$575 a session the company has been inundated with customers, he says. All customers get the use of costumes, props and even basic scripts for each session, which generally lasts about an hour.
"It's not just about having sex," Keshishian insists. "There's a lot of role-playing, there's a lot of scenarios. When they're acting, I find that our clientele is much more aroused than they would be in a regular situation. They do have a better time, and they do have better sex. It's a total escape from their reality. It's allowing them to be someone they normally aren't."
The Silver package, the least expensive, lets customers record their session in complete privacy using concealed, hand-operated remote controls.
With the Gold package, a professional technician seated in a separate control room guides three cameras and selects zoom shots.
The Platinum package provides a professional cameraman "in the same room filming scenes as close as the client likes," according to the promotional literature.
The cameraman, who previously filmed porno-movies, even acts as an ad hoc director. "I tell them, `Don't look at the camera. Keep your hands busy, never lay them on your side. Be verbal,'" says Bishop, an affable former adult-film industry cameraman. "I tell people, `Enjoy yourselves.' When they're having fun, you can tell. And most people are having fun."
To assuage customers fears that their intimate movies might somehow reach the thriving market for amateur porn videos, Live Acts issues each client a written privacy guarantee that only one videotape or DVD copy of the session will be produced and given immediately to them.
"We're here to stay in business," Keshishian says. "We don't play games with extra copies. It'd be a nightmare with liabilities."
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