Well, for those who don't think the models did well here they are entitled to their opinion of course. It bums me out though that this scene had so much potential that it could have delivered on. It won't be winning any awards on the technical aspects.
Direction, choreography, camera work, lighting (and to some extent those in the design and promotional side) were not in sync here. I could be wrong, but the camera man seemed to be winging it most of the time. They had the rehearsal part with the still cameras. But it seemed like once the scene started for real there was not much thought as to how the lighting would be or where the video cameras would be panning to.
Having Colin cumming with his face hidden and his dick underneath Mark made it difficult to catch (and see) both of his cumshots.
A big deal was made in the promos about Mark sucking two dicks simultaneously. As far as I know David only did that once...in one of the Torin and Steve videos. I loved it! I'd love to see more of that with the straighter models.
On the home page next to the new video the promo says, "Watch and see how he (Mark) does at taking two dicks at once!" They shouldn't have even mentioned it. It got my hopes up and then it was a total non event. The only "proof" we got that Colin and Jimmy's dicks ever touched or got sucked at the same time was extremely brief. It consisted of watching the back of Mark's head bob up and down a couple times.
As soon as Colin jumped behind Mark and behind the chair for that segment, that's when the director should have immediately asked him to step around in front of the camera. (Even if that part needed to be edited out later.) As it was, that segment was given a few brief seconds. Like it wasn't very intriguing or important to the viewers at all. If time was an issue in the length of the scene or in the editing process I would much rather have gotten 30 seconds or more of that and had it taken out of the 6 minutes of Jimmy pistoning in and out of Mark.
There are very few promo pictures posted on the video page anyway. If there is a glaring example of something that doesn't happen in the video...i.e. kissing, rimming, double cock sucking...those still photos shouldn't be posted. It's better for everyone that way. Better for management and better for the viewers. Nobody is misled into thinking they are going to see something they are not. One or more still photos in the promos would never be missed.
Direction and technical aspects are not usually a problem here. Usually it's the models themselves and their performances that make or break a scene. But the technical aspects are the only things (in my opinion) that kept this from being a 5 star video. The models gave it their all.
You're singing my song Tampa, I've been talking about this for weeks. I think the direction and camera work since the re-launch is sub par and amateurish. They fail to capture some of the most basic things in a good way that all porn consumers demand. That sort of thing is taught in the first week of training at any filmography 101 I would think, but they fail to deliver on this more often than not.
I've said before that I sometimes think that perhaps Clay, and the camera people are actually straight, and aren't aware of what gay porn consumers want to see in a gay porn video. We WANT to see them getting naked, we WANT to see their dick in every possible angle, we DO NOT want them to hide images from us that we most want to see. We WANT to see the interactions close up, and we WANT to see the cum shots in the best ways possible. We don't want any of these things to simply be shot as though they're merely an afterthought.
I think the guys in the scenes are doing a fantastic job, they're doing what they're asked and they do it well. I actually love Jimmy's assertiveness, and love that he has started taking on more of a directorial role because to be quite honest, he is more interesting to listen to and watch than listen to clay and his monotone. Although Clay seems to have gotten better than he was at first, but he would still win no personality awards that's for sure.
The guys themselves in this scene, were great. I loved Jimmy from start to finish, and I think he is a nice guy and he's friendly and personable. Not to mention hot, and he has a beautiful smile, a HOT body, and he's extremely good looking.
Colin has a laid back, friendly personality too and you can tell he's a cool guy. I also LOVE Colin's body, and I LOVE his long legs. I could look at him for hours, just looking at his beautiful body and those beautiful long legs of his.
I've never been a fan of Mark, but he is very necessary though because someone has to get fucked. And he does it willingly, and takes it like a man for the most part.
Logistically, 3ways are difficult to both watch, and I'm sure film. The more bodies and people and appendages, the more you have to try and capture and you're never going to make everyone happy no matter how hard you try, because someone is always going to be be slighted in terms of camera time. And it's inevitable, the guys I want to see most in 3ways and orgies are always the ones who get the least camera time.
I do find it rather strange that we have so many missed opportunities though in terms of so much of the action literally being missed and/or ignored by the camera work, that is really annoying and frustrating. I think it's important to have someone present when filming these scenes who is gay, and gets off on watching hot gay sex, so that they know what viewers want to see and can make sure the hot action is captured on camera and not completely ignored or just an afterthought captured from a distance.