Some of our video series ask for an “interview” portion at the beginning of the video. The idea is to get to know the people in the video a little bit, and hopefully get a bit turned on, before the clothes hit the floor and everything becomes a suck and fuck party till the cows come home, the fat lady sings, and the neighbors complain to the cops. The interview should not be something to get uptight and stiff about. It should not be just a grilling game of 20 questions. We suggest some questions to ask, but the best way to look at this part of the video is to think about it as a conversation that is sexual and seductive. It should be a flirtation and a tease. In fact, this is a great time for slowly undressing and laying in a bit of foreplay.

The idea is to get to know the people in the homemade sex tape and allow their natural sexy personalities to sparkle. If it feels like a job interview then that is not very erotic. If you watch it and want to join into the sex yourself then you know it is going well.

Here are some tips for shooting better interviews:

• Have a conversation instead of just firing off a bunch of questions. This works if you are just a couple shooting your own homemade sex tape, or you are brand new to doing porn and want to be a star and shooting for a pro-amateur producer.
• Use body language, the universal sign language of slowly stripping and teasing works wonders and when it is hard to think of what to say then a bit of peek-a-boo will do the trick to keep viewers glued to screen and ready to masturbate like bonobo chimps.
• Keep the subject matter sexual. If you are talking about dirty laundry people will get bored easily, but if you talk about how you had to wash cum off your panties after your lover blew his hot load of cum all over as you jerked off his dick with them then that is sure to get people’s attention.

Last week, several potential Homegrown Video submitters asked if we are accepting amateur bbw porn. The answer is yes. All body types are welcome. We are particularly looking for what we will call “cupcakes” or females that have no shortage of curves, nice big natural boobs, juicy round butts (pictured above)  but we also like true bbw (more like the pic below). We are planning on launching a new series based on this particular niche so we have to start amassing content for it.

V. wanted to know:

Three Questions
- If i mail in a memory card with our amateur porn do u send it back once you’ve uploaded the material?
- Does every video have to have an interview before we have sex, or can just picture id and paperwork submitted be ok?
- Once i mail in my first videos and they get accepted how does my free membership begin, and how do i set up my account.

Homegrown Video has the answers:

We can set you up with a membership as soon as we receive your samples. Memory cards would be returned but you are also welcome to upload off the card from home without having to send in the card. Not every video has to have an interview, but if you don’t do an interview then we recommend getting some good tease or build up to the main action setting up a fantasy or something along those lines. Have fun with it. We don’t want necessarily a boring interview, we just want anything illuminates your personality and gives viewers a Picture ID and model releases however must be submitted for every scene you submit, unless everything you shoot was shot on the same day.

JP from New York wants feedback:

“Well let’s see, being that I am a New Yorker and realizing that most females in NY are not looking to go into a porn industry (amateur or professional) I decided to contact an adult modeling agency.  Unfortunately this negative stereotype about being a porn star is pervasive not only in the five boroughs of NYC but throughout the tri-state region as well.  OR maybe it is not the stereotypes!  I do strongly belive that New Yorkers consume porn but most do not want to be involved in it.  Another issue is that NY is research and industry driven.  Artists make very little here (salty peanuts) and CEO’s make the most.  Scientists make somewhere in between.  And porn stars are just hard to find.  And believe me Mr. Lake, I have tried!  Recently I posted ads both on craigslist and backpage.  I got only 2 responses in the past 3 months and even those girls who responded were unreliable.  They wouldn’t return phone calls etc…  Anyways so back to what I was saying.  I contacted the modeling agency and given the fact that I am trying to tailor the films to your company’s needs and goals (which actually I admire) I asked the guy to find me a newby who even though is professional techinically speaking is still genuine in front of the camera.  The cheapest girl I found in NY (through an agency) is 400 to 600 bucks per scene (which is 4 hours).  I also need to purchase a camera which is another 400 to 600 dollars.  I gues I am not sure of the best type to use so if you can recommend one (decent price) I would greatly appreciate it.  So that is probably 1000 dollars right there just on camera and a girl plus a hotel room would be another 80 to 100 bucks.  I think the girl would be the hardest to find.  What do you think?  Thank you!

Homegrown Video advises:

The best way to go if you are looking to make the up front costs more profitable and you don’t have a swinging group of friends that want to cooperatively produce amateur porn, working for free, and you have to use an agency then you have to learn how to stretch the dollar most profitably. If the model is charging a day rate, then it is up to you to see how much you can possibly shoot in that time, a solo, a b/g, a POV, handjob etc.. If you shoot stills with the video then that can be marketable as well. You are trying to figure out how to plant a tree that will provide many fruits for your labors.

Toward nurturing that goal you have to be very straight up and let the model know exactly what to expect. You need to be professional, respectful, and courteous to the models and deliver on all promises regarding time, pay,  and what is expected. Treat the models right and you will get the benefit of word of mouth should any of their sexy friends decide they want to get in on the action.

Curvy Amateur Girls 21 – This series is for women with curves, but is not necessarily bbw. We are looking for big natural boobs and nice round butts. Women with a little meat on the bones are perfect; no skinny little minnies allowed.

Well Hung Amateurs 26 –  Guys with less than 8″ inches need not apply… and no measuring tricks because we know them all! An exception to the rule might be a guy with a super thick dick but usually we are looking for scenes with guys that have huge cocks fucking chicks with small, tight pussies.

Amateur Anal Attempts 34 – The less experienced the better when shooting scenes for Anal Attempts. We want to see all the preparation and especially the initial insertion shot. If the guy goes up her ass and starts banging away before her butt is ready then we know you are cheating…

Handjobs Across America 42 – Try your best to keep it fresh and unique. The scenes that work best have some element of risk or risque involved. Just sitting there getting a hand job on your couch and shooting POV is just too formula. Try and be creative!

Cherries 88 – Young and pretty co-ed types are what we look for in this series. The less tattoos and more fresh and innocent the better.

Deepthroat Virgins 46 - Once again, like Anal Attempts if it looks like the girl has taken a cock deep down her throat a million times before then that is not as intriguing as the earnest young slut that is doing her best to learn the skill in order to improve her erotic repertoire.

Backyard Amateurs 35 – With Summer season looming, now is the time to get your freak on in the great outdoors. We want hot sex caught in the beauty of nature, beaches, woods, yards, etc. but if you can get away with some sneaky stuff outside then that is great too.

Natural Bush 62 – One of our most popular series and always in need of good new scenes, we want hairy pussies and the hairier the better.

Cream Pie 79 – Another staple of our library, people love good cream pie videos. Maybe because they are sick of watching guys have to jerk themselves off to cum or maybe be because people just more easily identify with cumming in the pussy or ass than they do pulling out and jerking off.

1. At Homegrown Video we are only human and sometimes we get bogged down – we always try to get back to people asap, at least to give a status report, but we deal with quite a few submittals these days so sometimes it is tough to get on the phone. Using email or our support ticket system is the way to get the speediest reply.

2. Even if we turn down a particular homemade sex video, that doesn’t mean that whatever you shoot will not be worthy. We always try to give feedback that will help you do better and earn more with us.

3. Don’t read our guidelines and feel obligated to shoot an anal sex scene or gang bang or something that you really would not be into doing without a camera there. You need to be happy and sexually enthusiastic without anxiety or misgivings about doing what you are doing. Do what you like and or whatever you feel curious about trying. Make shooting your homemade porn and adventure and the way to make sexual fantasies come true.

4. Don’t let the paper work and business end bother you too much. We have to do things this way to keep everything on the straight and narrow. Protecting our legal rights also means protecting your legal rights.

5. At Homegrown Video we may not be the fastest or pay the most but

Homegrown Video will purchase content from amateurs that previously published the same content online under certain conditions. If the content was only sold through an online clips store or just on a small personally owned and managed amateur porn site then that is ok. In fact, we will make it a point to create another agreement granting you back the rights to continue publishing in those places. If you have your own site, then all we ask in return is for you to also sign up to our affiliate network and promote Homegrown Video in return which is a win-win because you get to take advantage of re-tooling the content and getting more promotion as well as a percentage of the sales you generate too.

Our affiliate program, if you want to sign up and promote Homegrown is HERE

EXGF refers to a specific niche of amateur porn; it should look like it was made at home and probably never intended for anyone else to see… only, whoops! An evil ex-boyfriend decided to be a dick and put it up on the internet! Oh the shame! Oh the horror! In truth, real homemade porn shot at home with no help from a third party camera person or video producer where a couple is shooting themselves for their own personal enjoyment, the type of content that Homegrown Video originally became famous for, demonstrates exactly what EXGF should look like – very amateur, and perfect in its imperfections. However, since more professional porn producers also want to be able to submit this style of content for consideration, we provide the following tips on how to create authentic EXGF style content.

The problem producers have when trying to create EXGF content is that they are accustomed to trying to make the lighting perfect, the camera framing just right, and want to direct the action because that  is what they think looks best. However, the whole  purpose of EXGF content is to make it look like the video a couple made while they were still boyfriend and girlfriend and which “slipped out” and found its way to the internet for – Oh MY GOSH – all the world to see.

Therefore, these are the rules to follow when creating EXGF content that will look authentic:

• Do not direct the action at all. In fact, just give the camera to the couple and send them off to whatever room in their house or apartment that they want to have sex in and let them shoot themselves. Let them be and leave them to their own devices to do whatever the heck they feel like doing sexually speaking. Tell them they can set the camera up on a tripod or use handheld shots or a combination of the two and show them the basics of how to operate the camera. Don’t worry about the lighting and use whatever light is available.
• Get the models to shoot themselves using their own cellphone cameras
• Don’t shoot in a hotel or on a set in a studio. That won’t look like it is homemade. Homemade has to mean made in the home.
• Don’t go for studio lighting for still shots. The idea is to get shots that look like an average, non-professional camera, snapshot. So forget the typical porn star poses and just get real, casual, spontaneous and amateur. Once again, put the camera in the model’s hands and let them shoot themselves.
• Shooting non-full nude shots about town is great – tease and flashing are a bonus,  especially in public – and if it is something that looks sexy but wouldn’t get censored on Facebook that is IDEAL.
• Keep it real. The more real and raw and less posed and perfect that it looks the better

The most frequent question Homegrown Video gets asked is “when will I get paid?” The answer is always going to be based on how soon we need the content in relation to when it will appear in publication, either on our website or on DVD. There are some handy tips for getting your homemade sex videos “fast tracked” so that you can potentially be paid much faster than average. A “fast track” video is a sex scene that we determine needs to be purchased and published ahead of normal month to month plotted releases scheduled for publication on our sites, as well as ahead of DVDs. We make that call on whether or not something is fast track worthy based on a few criteria.

• If you sold us an amateur porn scene and we received tremendously positive response to it and our members are clamoring for more, then we might request more videos from you to fast track
• If we have an upcoming DVD release scheduled and remain short a scene or two from our usual number per DVD, then we need to fill those slots asap. To take advantage of this we recommend checking this site regularly to see the notices we run for content we need in order of priority.
• When we receive content that is or might be tied to a public relations mainstream media wave that we want to ride, then we will move on it quickly.
• If we think a scene or an amateur model is going to be a huge sensation and quickly be swept up and become a big star, then we will buy as many scenes as possible before the star maker machinery ruins everything

JCLI Films, a semi-amateur porn production company wrote with a slew of questions:

To whom it may concern:

I just finished reading through your guidelines for video submissions, and I had a couple of quick questions regarding video submissions. They are as followed;

Do we get paid on submitted videos before or after they are edited?

Does your listed average of $20 per minute refer to the length of the video we submit, or the length of the final edited video?

Are masks or other forms of anonymity allowed in certain films?

Are we allowed to create our own music, and use it in the video? What would the process be to give you the rights to use this music?

Would we be able to submit videos/pictures/ID/consent forms in the form of an E-Mail? If not, would everything in the form of DVD work?

Do you accept submissions of solo male videos?

What is the maximum amount of videos we can submit within a given period of time?

Do we need a membership to Homegrownvideo.com in order to submit videos or view our own submitted content?

Are you able to administer payment in the form of PayPal or direct deposit to a bank account?

Thank you for your time, it’s really appreciated! If you could E-mail me back with responses to these questions as soon as possible that would be great! Looking forward to working with you and have a great day!

Homegrown Video never minds questions about making and submitting amateur porn replies:

Great questions, happy to help.

1. We pay on videos after an agreement is reached and when they are slated for release. We do not publish anything unless you have received payment since that is our best form of verifying Agreement/Acceptance. The $20 a minute is simply an average to give a rough idea and would be based on the average of the full raw material and the finished edit.

2. Masks are allowed as long as we get some footage without the mask. We will cut that out but we need to be able to make sure that the face on the ID is the same as the face behind the mask.

3. If you create your own music then we may or may not want to use it. If we use it then we would have to get a release to use it.

4. IDs, as long as they are high quality scans, preferably Jpeg or pdf format, are acceptable to email. DVD is also acceptable.

5. We do not take solos of males and only rarely take solos of females these days.

6. The maximum number of videos to submit is up to you. We don’t have a limit. It comes down to whatever you are comfortable with sending because we may want to use some right away, others later, so our budget will dictate what we spend. If we don’t use a scene we send it back. If you don’t want to wait for a scene to get purchased then you are welcome to take it elsewhere.

7. You do not need a Homegrown membership to submit. In fact, once we accept any video then we give you a lifetime membership to the site where you are welcome to self promote and generate more interest in your videos to our members.

8. Paypal or wire transfer are both ok.