To clarify this article, I write a case study for a model paid in revenue share NOW (if you see this article online it means we are still using this system).
Let’s imagine the Female Performer Jane came to work for us for 1 scene from the UK.
We bought her a flight ticket for $300.00.
Our driver will pick her up at the airport and bring her to our studio the day after she arrives.
The day after, our driver brings her to get her STD test.
In the afternoon, the same day of the medical test she shoot her Scene #1
The scene is a gangbang with pee with 5 boys.
The day after she rest
The following day she shot her Scene #2
The scene is with another girl and 3 boys
The next day the driver brings her to the airport and she goes back home.
Accounting Scene #1
Base Revenue for Female Performer: $700,00
Base Revenue for all the Male Performers: $500,00 ($100,00 for each performer)
Basic Cost: $590,00(*1)
To the Total Cost of the scene wll be: $1.790,00
The Female Performer will find $700,00 in her account on our Release & Accounting System (*2) for the Scene #1
Each Male Female Performer will find $100,00 in his account on our Release & Accounting System for the Scene #1
Accounting Scene #2
Base Revenue for Female Performer: $700,00
Base Revenue for all the Male Performers: $300,00 ($100,00 for each performer)
Basic Cost: $590,00(*1)
To the Total Cost of the scene wll be: $1.590,00
The Female Performer will find $700,00 in her account on our Release & Accounting System (*2) for the Scene #2
Each Male Female Performer will find $100,00 in his account on our Release & Accounting System for the Scene #2
So, overall, a few days after the scene is released, the Base Revenue of both scenes is available in the account of the performer into our Release & Accounting and the performer can request a payment.
Now, when the scene is released (*4) on Pornbox, each performer will be linked to the scene using the Collab. module on sheer: this is the so-called Additional Revenue.
The additional Revenue is shared in this way:
– 35% of PROFIT to the Female Performer
– 35% of PROFIT to the Male Performer
– 30% of PROFIT rest to us.
Let’s imagine a few days after the performance (*3) the Scene #1 goes online. Two weeks after the scene went online, it generates a payout of 4.000,00 (*4)
These are the calculations that will be done (totally in automatic using the Collab. Module into the Sheer System)
First, we detract the production cost to calculate the profit
$4.000,00-$1.790,00= $2.210,00
So $2.210,00 is the profit and it will be spreaded to the Sheer Account of each performer using the collab module using the next percentages:
35% goes to the Female Performer -> $773,50
35% goes to the Male Performers -> 154,70 for each performer
30% is our profit -> $663,00
So, in a few words, for the Female Performer this is the overall:
She will get her ticket paid, she will get a driver and accommodation, she will get tested.
She will shoot her scenes and for her scene she will get a Base Revenue of $1.400,00 (for both scenes) available for payment soon after her trip.
Two weeks after Scene #1 will go online, she will get additional money, in the case of the example, another $773,50 deposited in her Sheer Account.
Two weeks after Scene #2 will go online, she will get other money (I do not think it is necessary to write again all calculation, this is just a practical example of how it works
(*1) Basic Cost for the specific case: (½ of her ticket -$150,00-, ½ of her medical test -$90,00-, editing of her scene -$100,00-, location cost -$100,00-, organization -$100,00-, Makeup -$50,00-
(*2) Money deposited on the account of a Performer into our Release & Accounting System are available for payment about a week after the performance.
(*4) In the first 14 days the scene is online, the Sheer System will calculate a long term, projected 3-year monetary value for the scene. If the calculation will increase in time, the projected 3-year monetary value will increase. $4.400,00 is a totally made up number)
(*3) A scene can be released a few days after the shooting or a few months.