What makes a Great Performance?
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June 28, 2020, 17 回复
This forum is an echo chamber for varied tastes, but one thing many of us seem to agree on is that some performers have “got it”, but some haven’t. A few performers have sold enough cards to get an immediate Take2. Many beautiful girls don’t sell enough, in spite of rave reviews and appearing to do all the right things. We all claim to want different things (big breasts, small breasts, real breasts, bare feet, xxx, tat-free, redheads, the list goes on), but then an awful lot of us instantly buy all Belka’s cards. And Nici, Avery and Sasha, and in the past Melisa, Valeria, Gloria, Hilary, Lucy – all instant Take2s. Our personal peccadilloes sell cards to individuals, but not in Take2 quantities.
So what is it that makes an instantly successful card series? It’s not physical beauty that we are all drawn to, either face or body – there are plenty of examples of beautiful performers without a Take2. It’s not necessarily the good dancers, the pornstars or the pro strippers. Whatever it is, if we could bottle it and send it to Totem, we’d enjoy more good shows and they’d make more money.
Well we can’t bottle it and Totem don’t know, when they book a performer, how she’ll turn out. I don’t think they always know when she’s done a few shows. They just publish and hope for the best. But I suspect there are common characteristics in hit cards. Here’s my list for starters. Maybe the directors can coach the girls to be greater.
1. Engagement with the viewer, eye contact, camera engagement. The hit shows all create a link between the performer and viewer and it’s the eyes that do it.
2. Expressiveness, humour, playfulness, characterisation and play-acting. Maybe get the girls to define a theme and then act it out, rather than deadpan the strip. Maybe plan “surprises”, such as costume incidents, and tutor the girls to react and involve the viewer.
3. Variety, either in dance or mood. Sometimes driven by the costume, but the performer really needs to buy into it and have a list of things to do in her head when she starts. Different for each show, if poss.
4. A sense that they are enjoying what they do. Confidence and willingness to be explicit, even if they’re playing shy (really being shy never seems to earn a Take2).
Is this list correct and in a sensible order? What have I forgotten? Or is the ability to project personality, while stripping, innate and untrainable in the limited time available to the Totem directors? Or is it about something other than performance? This isn’t the thread for demanding more nun costumes or stuff specific to you, but what do you think makes certain card series winners?
