Find Out What POV Porn All About
POV pornography is where action is captured using cameras from the point of view from actor. Lets face it, most of us don’t want to see the guy making the O face anyhow.
In season 2 of HBO’s series The Deuce pimp Larry is taking credit for inventing POV. He suggests to let him shoot the scene and make up lines on the fly so that the consumer can see what he is seeing.
This is a popular style of porn which breaks from the traditional filming convention. The camera crew outside of a scene and the action takes place in ‘third-person’.
The use of POV has been quite specialized over the years. Many independent studios, producers and directors create content in this style. Growing demand and better camera technology has seen more studios adding POV scenes.
The XRCO and AVN awards include trophies for Best POV Sex Scene, Best POV Production, Best POV Series and Best POV release.
Digital Playground, Jules Jordan Video, Evil Angel and Digital Sin are big players in the POV genre.
According to recent AEBN VOD annual insights, POV porn is viewed for the shortest amount of time. The average viewer watches POV clips for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. It seems that this kind of porn helps get the viewer get off even faster. By contrast, amateur clips seem to take the average viewer 15 minutes on average to enjoy.
What’s the Appeal of POV porn?
The rise of POV is because the viewer can feel more immersive and get more of a sense that they are involved.
Scenes from blowjobs at this angle are impressive to watch. Those hungry, upward-looking eyes is where a lot of standard porn misses out on.
With advances in Ultra HD or Virtual Reality, POV porn can offer a very realistic experience. Fans of this style report that VR, and with the Fleshlight offer the closest thing to actually having sex while watching porn.
Chances are that you have already seen some camerawork shot in this way. A full scene filmed in POV is definitely something you should check out.
A Brief History of POV Porn
Pov was popularized in Western porn by John Stagliano of Evil Angel studios in the 1980s and 1990s.
Before Stagliano’s style, porn was filmed using static cameras and wide shots to accommodate the action in a scene.
Notable directors that favor this style of pornography include:
- Tom Byron
- Christoph Clark
- Ben Dover
- Erik Everhard
- Manuel Ferrara
- Jules Jordan
- John Leslie
- Rodney Moore
- Ed Powers
- Rocco Siffredi
- Joey Silvera
- Randy West
Japanese POV Porn
Japanese Hamedori is point of view pornography believed produced before Stagliano produced the Buttman series.
Hamedori style films dated to early 1980s. The term was only coined in 1988/89 when the style was popularized by the AV director, Company Matsuo.
Hamedori is similar to gonzo and POV porn. It uses the technique of an actor (sometimes director) operating the camera in a more loose and mobile way to a traditional filming method.
Matsuo developed his own style of POV porn. He created his videos using amateur actresses and preceding the action with intimate chats. ‘Getting to know’ the performers before a sex scene made POV action would be even more immersive.
These are very popular. The prequel to a hardcore scene with candid and natural chats are seen in the work of many current studio content. You can see this kind of material particularly well demonstrated in many BDSM films.
How is POV Porn Filmed?
This style of filming is achieved by using a range of different techniques.
Main shooting is performed by one of the actors or a dedicated third -person camera crew who films.
The action is shot by the performer themselves, this involves them either:
- holding a camera (not ideal as this can be subject to the ‘shakes’ at critical times), or
- fitted with a head cam.
Basic head cams do not produce the best results. They are affected by small amounts of motion. New technology in this field enables performers to be fitted with a sophisticated camera. This camera is mounted on a helmet and is able to stabilize the filmed images much better.
When a cameraman is used to film POV, this can demand some awkward angles from the main performer. The right shot is often needed over the shoulder or from above them.
The benefit of this technique that the crew member is not a part of the action and more likely to be able to keep the camera still.
Depending on the position, some studios also use more static rigs to suspend the camera in a position above the performer to catch the right shots. The downside of this is that the action is quite static which works for scenes featuring oral sex but not so useful for the more acrobatic of positions.
With virtual reality the scenes are more static. The action is filmed using sophisticated cameras that must be fixed in position to capture the whole scene.
There are other techniques which, when combined and edited together will create a mix of angles and shots. Though they may all be POV, there is some cutting required to piece these together. For this reason, POV is sometimes considered to be quite ‘jumpy’ when it comes to a scene change.
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