How can I control the Highest Posing Level percentage when the Editor actually selects it?

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How can I control the Highest Posing Level percentage when the Editor actually selects it?

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Typically, 70% or more of a competitors’ content is shot at the highest Posing Level, compared to only 50% or less in abbywinters.com shoots.
While abbywinters.com customers are known to appreciate a slower build up (exploring a model’s personality and physicality in her clothes), they are still subscribing to an erotic website, with an end goal of seeing models at the highest Posing Level.  To compete with competitors, it’s essential that the highest Posing Level targets are met.
For this reason Shoot Producers (SPs) are assessed in part on the percentage of edited content at the highest Posing Level.  However, Editors (not SPs) make decisions regarding what content is included in the final edit.
So, how can SPs have control over the outcome, when they are not making the final selections? 🤔

The Editor’s mandate

Editors have a simple mandate when editing for abbywinters.com;
Good content stays in, bad content is removed.
Editors make edit decisions regardless of the Posing Level of that content. Editors are not concerned with “helping” the SP meet highest Posing Level targets (or with “stopping” them from meeting such targets).
SPs knows what “good content” is, and control what they choose to capture. SPs dictate how many ideas and how much time is dedicated to each section of the shoot day.

SP captures too much clothed content in a park

Consider this scenario;

Model Mary is booked for an OL Solo shoot. She’s a talented rollerskater. She brings her rollerskates to the shoot, and the SP takes her to a near by park and gets some content there (great for MMaiA!).

The SP is inspired, spending a few hours getting a lots of upskirt and downblouse fetish content (Clothing Use!), as well as some impressive rollerskating action for Stills and Video. All the action covered is really high quality technically. Captueed from several angles, and is lit well. The model’s haveing a great time sharing her mad skillz!

The SP returns with the model to the apartment, sets up lights and rushes through the other Solo shoot requirements in the remaining time. Of course, the SP does not have time to explore all eight of the highest Posing Level poses in the necessary level of depth.

The Editor includes most of the excellent content shot in the park (on-paradigm, unique and high-quality). Unfortunately, some highest Posing Level content shot inside is discarded due to shadows created by the flashes in Stills, becasue the SP did not have time to perfect their lighting set up.

The final outcome: The clothed content created in the park is lovely, but the SP misses the highest Posing Level percentage (50% was required, they only hit 37%).

The SP either needs to spend more time capturing Open Leg material at the apartment, or limit the time they spend capturing clothed content in the park, to ensure the Posing Level % meets requirements.

The SP is welcome to suggest a Rollerskating Special Redux, or “bank” ideas for a Level 4 Solo (where there are fewer limitations). Taking the model to a location where she could rollerskate naked (or even in Open Leg poses) would also have resolved this.

ABOVE: SPs are conscious of the balance of content they are shooting as a whole. How much content is the SP creating at lower Posing Levels? How deep are exploring? How will this impact the final edited shoot?

Rollerskating shoot analysis

The SP in this scenario was correct to go outside with the model, but they needed to manage time better. Customers will appreciate each image and rollerskating clip as fantastic, customers are subscribing to an erotic site, not a rollerskating magazine! Roller skating action is not an “even” trade off for lack of Open Leg content later in the shoot.
Unique rollerskating content would have just as big an impact shown in 10 images and three minutes of video. SPs consider where time on a shoot day is best invested.
SP’s are encouraged to be creative when making Solo shoots – the Leveling System rewards and demands this – however that doesn’t mean that great ideas need to be long in delivery.
An ideal shoot would dazzle customers with lots of different flashes of creative excellence before moving on to the next idea. SPs may find it helpful to consider each idea that’s not part of the highest Posing Level (where ideas should always be explored in depth), to be a a single firework within a display.
Each firework stands out as it’s own “WOW!” moment – worthy of looking, but as that brief impressive thing fades, the next idea “shoots into the air”. Individual fireworks may be remembered as “the best bit” but it is the impact of the display (the shoot) as a whole that will dictate how enjoyable the watcher found the overall experience.

Planning to succeed

Planning a shoot in advance helps an SP to reflect on how well-balanced the shoot will be in terms of the number of creative elements they intend to cover at other Posing Levels and at the highest Posing Level.

When a model presents with multiple fantastic ideas for lower Posing Level content, SPs select only one or two ideas, the  ideas that they feel best able to execute on that day based on the location, weather, clothing, lighting and model’s grooming.

Consider dividing the day into sections. If shooting NDE or OL (where 50% of the edited content needs to be at the highest Posing Level), ensure two thirds of the time shooting is at the highest Posing Level – “tip the scales”. Similarly for EXP or INS shoots, set an alarm to ensure 50% of the shooting time is at the highest Posing Level.

Consider capturing the highest Posing Level thoroughly first on the shoot day, then using the remaining time for the lower Posing Level content.

Plan interesting and creative ideas that can happen at the same time as the highest Posing Level (Layering).