Yes, that’s right.
We’re making a product. Customers buying our product is how we can afford to pay you, our Shoot Producers, other team members, and for expenses like flights and accommodation! That means, we need to make a product – shoots – that customers like.
In our shoots, we want to incorporate models’ real lives, their hobbies, preferences, experiences, life stories – this is what adds vibrancy and “realness” to shoots… but we are also aware of what elements of a women’s life our customers want to focus on, so we are selective in what we ask models to share.
While our product is designed to appear how young women live their lives, that’s not always the case. For example,
✅ In the “real world” you prefer to keep your long hair tied back unless you’re sleeping. We ask you to let your hair down for the shoot.
We’ll never ask – or expect – you to lie or make up stories, but we will be selective. For example;
❌ Maybe you’re right into dogging – that’s cool, you do you – but that’s not what our customers want to believe about how models spend their free time.
✅ We ask you not to talk about dogging in a shoot. Instead, we’d explore some other sexual practises you enjoy that our customers are more comfortable with.
Our “paradigm” (the “world” our models inhabit) is reasonably specific, but there is room for variety. We do not expect every model to “fit the same mould” in most ways… but we do in some ways.
For example, our customers pay us to see feminine models…
🤔 You tend to wear loose clothing that hides your breasts and hips day to day.
✅ We’d prefer to make the shoot of you wearing more-feminine clothing. Not skin-tight leather, but… more form-fitting than dungarees, you know?
A practical example with Steph
The examples have been simplistic so far, and people are complex. So let’s consider a more realistic scenario…
👩 Steph is is a nurse 👩⚕️ who smokes pot 😮💨, is a dominatrix ⛓️ as a side gig, and is a Pantera fan 🤘 (and there’s a lot more to Steph than this, of course!).
As for every model, only some parts of Steph’s life are suitable for inclusion in an abbywinters.com shoot (and perhaps, she only wants to share some parts, too?). Let’s imagine Steph is comfortable sharing about all of these aspects.
👩⚕️ Nurses tend to be caring and considerate people, so we’d definitely want to talk about her nursing training and practise in the shoot. For example, what drew Steph to nursing? What subjects at uni did she enjoy / find challenging? What she enjoys about nursing? How has it changed her as a person? Who inspires her? We might ask her to take her own blood pressure, show us how to make “hospital corners” on a bed, stuff like that.
😮💨 Pot smoking is seen by most of our customers as either boring or bad. While some customers smoke pot and would enjoy seeing a model talk about her pot smoking, most customers dislike shoots with models talking about being stoned. So, we would not ask any questions about pot-smoking, and if it came up in conversation, we’d steer the conversation away from it (depending on what was said, we might edit out that part of the conversation, too). Some of us are pot smokers, we’re not “against” pot smoking – we just need to focus on making what our customers want.
🤘 Some customers may be Pantera fans, and enjoy that Steph is also a fan. We’re unlikely to have any customers who actively dislike Pantera – many would just not be aware of them, or simply not be a fan. We’d ask Steph to discuss how she was first exposed to the band, how the music makes her feel, her fave songs and albums, memorable concert moments and similar. We want to show her passion!
⛓️ Steph’s a dominatrix. Customers of abbywinters.com are often customers of other types of adult entertainment, but we do not aim to be “everything to everyone”. Many customers are uncomfortable with “other” sexual practises, and we don’t want to piss them off by “forcing” them to engage in stuff they don’t like (because then, they will stop being our customers!). So, we’d probably not discuss this part of Steph’s life.
It’s normal to compartmentalise our lives like this. The model probably does not tell her nursing patients about Pantera or her dominatrix work (and vice-versa), and that’s ok. Similarly, at abbywinters.com, we want to explore aspects of the model that are “on paradigm” and what our customers want to hear about, and simply not draw attention to the rest.
Paying customers are rare in the industry and tend to pay for things they really like, so we’re careful to make material they are most-likely to enjoy.
Sometimes, we break our own rules. About a third of the time we’re “punished” for it (that is, customers dislike it, and choose to cancel their subscription, go looking for something that is more to their taste). A third of the time, customers love it and ask us to shoot more stuff like that! The other third, customers entirely ignore it.
It’s difficult to find a paying customer, and easy to lose one, so we’re very careful in what we do.
Asking you to do “other” things
There are also things we’ll ask you to do that are perhaps not things you’d do day-to-day, but that you’re open to trying. For example;
✅ You did ballet 🩰 for a few years in your early teens, so we might ask you to demo some moves you recall.
✅ You’re an accomplished ballet dancer 🩰🏆, so we shoot a lot of that. Then, we ask you to try some freestyle funk – it’s not something you’re an expert in, but you appreciate the style, you’re comfortable dancing other styles, so you give it a go.
There’s some stuff we would not ask you to do, based on what you have shared about yourself. For example;
❌ You admit that you’re not a dancer at all, and that dancing makes you quite self-conscious. We would not ask you to dance anyway.
