Jesse Jane.
Recently Jesse Jane’s been talking (NY Times – registration required) about getting corrective surgery to make her implants look less like dead Fraggles under the glare of a high-definition camera (she could also try eating food – it’d make her skull look less knobbly). Sadly for Jesse, the surgeon’s not the answer.
Porn’s problem is the close-up and though HD will make it worse, any camera placed close enough to define pores and body-hair will expose the kind of flaws you usually happily ignore because you’re getting some.
Jesse has more reason to be concerned than most because she works for Digital Playground. Joone her boss is a dedicated gearhead and uses the best equipment he can afford, real HD broadcast cameras, not the camcorder/desklamp rig favored by the gonzo crowd. She’s knows, as does the rest of the industry, the most perfect bodies are found on the youngest performers and is trying to find a way to stay camera-friendly and prolong her career (which is why Nina Hartley’s first HD feature’s going to be a real specialty interest).
The porn lifestyle doesn’t help. Smoking destroys the skin and make-up is clearly visible in HD. Performers fond of both look particularly bad up-close (as you’ll discover at the AEE show) but at least on TV the distances are reasonable, the lighting superb and the angles kind.
Until the jizz bizz has access to the digital vaseline used by the studios to make Kiera Knightly, Sandra Bullock and Cameron Diaz look flawless the best way of preserving porn’s ‘perfect’ illusion in HD is going to be younger performers, midshots and squinting. Meanwhile prepare for a lot of hasty, desperate and pointless surgery followed by a couple of unexpected early retirements.
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