3 Questions about smokingsweeties

Hi guys, I wanted to ask you 3 simple questions about SmokingSweeties:

1. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD KEEP doing?
   
2. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD STOP doing?
   
3. ¿What SmokingSweeties is NOT doing, and SHOULD START doing?

Fran wrote:Hi guys, I wanted to ask you 3 simple questions about SmokingSweeties:

1. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD KEEP doing?
   
2. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD STOP doing?
   
3. ¿What SmokingSweeties is NOT doing, and SHOULD START doing?

1. Keep focusing on the darkside/heavy smoking girl with outstanding quality, keep the addiction in focus.

2. Not use girls that dont fit in to the next door girl category, including girls with loads of makeup or even worse, stereotypical silicone breasts.

3. Smoking Sexies could have been a great alternative for all of us seeking some more skin, I dont know why you gave it up (low payoff I believe?) but with some time and PR (should do itself....) and a few good shots tightly aligned with the original site, or even as a section on the smsw site I really think that the concept is what is lacking.
Not pornmovies, just less t-shirts This is now a rather well acclaimed site. I really cant see why section/sistersite with less clothing should fail. But you Probably do...Just my 5...

1 Stop
Exhaling into directly into the camera
Outdoor Shots - never that great
Using models who are not very accomplished chain smokers - we want those who have a big habit and it is clear that they are committed smokers
Background studio noise such as TV and music at times - distracting

2 Start
Better fashion - some leather would be good
More on the multiples for sure and a variety of double and triples with nostril exhales
Close ups on the multiples
Quoting the daily consumption of the models

3 Continue
Use of popular models - we know who they are
Recent 'Chimney' scenes
More subtitles - always interesting to hear what they have to say
Better range of questions around smoking habits
Side shots so we can see the exhales with good studio lighting


Love the site - reall great and watch for news daily. Thanks so much. HOpe this helps

Love Irene

Keep
- overall quality of models and filming
- concentration on heavy smoking images and sounds, not nudity
- a surprising "artsy" innovation now and then (though I might not be a fan in every single case)

Stop
- smokers who have started only recently (less than say 5 years)
- smokers who are not really at ease with their smoking
- any kind of "fakes", over-correction of images, unnatural behaviour

Start
- more (extensive) interviews, subtitled or not (Vanessa was great!)
- more models who truly understand the art and pleasure of smoking (again: like Vanessa; but also Sara, Dessi, Alexia, Raquel and a few others)
- maybe a cigar once in a while...

Keep up the good work!

Fran wrote:Hi guys, I wanted to ask you 3 simple questions about SmokingSweeties:

1. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD KEEP doing?
   
2. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD STOP doing?
   
3. ¿What SmokingSweeties is NOT doing, and SHOULD START doing?

1 Stop
I completely agree with these which have already been listed:

- Exhaling directly into the camera (Hate that)
- Outdoor Shots - never that great
- Using models who are not very accomplished chain smokers - we want those who have
a big habit and it is clear that they are committed smokers
- Background studio noise such as TV and music at times - distracting
- smokers who have started only recently (less than say 5 years)
- smokers who are not really at ease with their smoking
- any kind of "fakes", over-correction of images, unnatural behavior
- any model from wearing a bra
- group shoots (I prefer solo models)

2 Continue

- Heavy smokers with many years experience
- Interviews
- Great lighting and clear audio

3 Start

- More attractive models who are older (Helen, Valeria, etc.)
- Much more nudity and transparent clothing (with no bra)
- More talk about the sensation of inhaling deeply, and the feeling of smoke in the lungs
- More frequent updates, if possible for you. (I know it's not your main job, and the editing takes a long time)
- More FRANCHESKA (and finally with bare breasts)

Thanks for your great work Fran.

Fran wrote:Hi guys, I wanted to ask you 3 simple questions about SmokingSweeties:

1. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD KEEP doing?
   
2. ¿What is SmokingSweeties doing that SHOULD STOP doing?
   
3. ¿What SmokingSweeties is NOT doing, and SHOULD START doing?

Hi!

keep:
- I dont agree with not shoing models who started not long ago: Rym, AnnaMC and Adriana are all young but very good smokers: I like them, because they smoke like someone who is addicted, and who likes to smoke, and they are at the point now, when they only feel the upsides of being a smoker, they enjoy satisfing cravings, they getting very used to it and the not yet feel the health effetcs, and despite they heard all the warnings, they propably dont fully understand them, and ignore them. And i like the thought that if they continue like this, by the time they start to feel them, and the will definately feel them after a like a decade, it'll be probably too late for them, and they wont care. It'll be still possible for them to quit, but it'll be very hard and i think they will choose not to. And young regular smokers are very attractive, in ways they are more attractive than 30+ long itme smokers, and similary these long time smoker are more attractive in other ways: you should feature buth, and keep the balance.

- This is the only site where I can mostly believe what the descriptions say, and what the models say during the interview. Keep this up, and keep it real: reality is more valueable: its better if the say they smoke a pack, than if they say the smoke 3 packs and it is not beliveable by their smoking performance. Smoking a pack in a heavy stiley results in a very stong addiction too: i smoke 10 cigs a day in a style like the models here, and even this leeds to a serious hard to break addiction. Also, anyone who smokes about 10 a day, can smoke 1-2 cigarettes very heavily and convincingly: but only a true heavy somker can smoke 4-5 cigarettes in a row in a heaví style: so please, more scenes, where girls chainsmoke 4-5 cigarettes without cuts.(i know this in my example, i cant smoke chainsmoke 4-5 cigsarettes in a row properly)

- Overall, this is by far the best SF site in the web, so please keep up the quality, and as the previos poster: there is no such thing as too many Franchesca videos (or Jen, or Rebecca or Valeria and Ines)

- Interviews are great: every model should have an interview video, even if it is subtitled, with detailed smoking history, future quitting plans and description of their addiction
- I like that this site is not focused on nudity, so you can keep it like this, but on the other hand its good to see nude heavy smokers on occaison.

Stop:
- i dont like scenes where they smoke multiples, it is just not natural. I cant imagine a real life situation where a girl would smoke multiples. And these scenes are noticeaby "awkward", its visible that its not natural for them and hard to even manage to take normal drags from each cigarette. Its much better to smoke those 4 cigarettes in a row.

- I also dont like group scenes, its much better when you can focus on one good model.

- there are a few videos with not that great smoking, only with a hot, but usually "bitchy' girls with too much makeup of fake breasts: i dont like those.


Should try:
- there are very few full body shots. There should be more
- Not only full budy shots, but there are very very few videos where the legs or feet of a model is visible. I have a little foot fetish too, so is miss this a lot, but I think even without foot fetish it is a good thing to see the whole body of an attractive girl.
- Its hard to do believeably and i see how it can be hard to arrange too, but I'd love videos, where a heavy smoking girl REALLY does not somke for a few(the mode the better) hours, and then lights up on camera.
- I know that this is a hobby of yours, but with the situation that this site is soo much better than the others, its a real pain to wait for new updates, I dont think that sales would go down on videos if you tried to release more frequently. But If you cant releae more frequently that fine too, just please dont stop what you are doing:) I know its a stupid thing for a customer to say, but I would by your videos even if they costed more.


So all in all thanks for the questions, it's nice that you ask your customers things like this, but the thing is is you keep everithing the way it is its still THE BEST

best regarsd,
heldengoo

heldengoo wrote:
- I dont agree with not shoing models who started not long ago: Rym, AnnaMC and Adriana are all young but very good smokers: I like them, because they smoke like someone who is addicted, and who likes to smoke, and they are at the point now, when they only feel the upsides of being a smoker, they enjoy satisfing cravings, they getting very used to it and the not yet feel the health effetcs, and despite they heard all the warnings, they propably dont fully understand them, and ignore them. And i like the thought that if they continue like this, by the time they start to feel them, and the will definately feel them after a like a decade, it'll be probably too late for them, and they wont care. It'll be still possible for them to quit, but it'll be very hard and i think they will choose not to. And young regular smokers are very attractive, in ways they are more attractive than 30+ long itme smokers, and similary these long time smoker are more attractive in other ways: you should feature buth, and keep the balance.

I totally agree. I like experienced smokers but I must say that if Fran had only chosen these women, we would not have seen Lucy, Anna Mc and other sexy girls. The most important qualities are the beauty of the model and her smoking style. Long experience is not essential. A mix of experienced smokers and new talents is the perfect combination.
I disagree with those of you who have asked Fran to stop filming group scenes. In my opinion only one model videos are often boring. It is great to see a group of sexy women who chat and laugh together while smoking heavily. Smoking parties are a joy to watch.
Topless scenes are good if the model has beautiful breasts. I don't like too little breasts. The same is true for fake breasts. I don't like everything that is not true. Fake cough is another thing that turns me off.
Keep filming girls like Vanessa, Rosy, Sara, Anna Mc, Raquel, Andrea, Lorena, Eli, Franchezca, Alexia. I would also like to see some models of the past again, for example Marta, Rebeca, Carol from Spain, Mireya, Encarni, Jen, Dessi, Iveta and Valeria. It is great to see a model again after a long time. This is the proof that the model has not quit smoking. New faces are always welcome but make sure that new models are heavy and enthusiastic smokers. Girls who wants to quit or feel guilty can stay at home.
Multiple smoking is not realistic but from time to time can be fun. By contrast, I don't like your smoking machine. I prefer to see a girl who smoke with her hands.
Interviews are always interesting but ask your models not to tell lies. Girls with a raspy voice should always speak. Try to find new girls that have this type of voice.
I am not interested in nudity but I would like to see more scenes where the whole body of yours models is visible, especially if they have a beautiful body.
I would like to see more updates but I understand that this is not your main job.
Thanks for asking our opinion. Keep up the good work.

The most important is already said in this topic, but I have something for this question:

¿What SmokingSweeties is NOT doing, and SHOULD START doing?

I love high-res pictures of smoking girls (about 4-5 MPixels). You could provide it as a package with the videoclip (at a higher price) so that anyone could choose if he want's the pictures or not.

Thanks guys, I'm taking note of each one of your suggestions. Don't stop shooting suggestions about what I should 'continue/stop/start'.

Recently I made many shootings that I'm editing now, and I see that I still made some faults on my recent shootings that doesn't match your suggestions but some of your dissagrees. But as I see there is an audience for every scene/model.

The last shootings I made I've used a lot of natural light with (without the help of electric light) not black backgrounds. Take it as a personal challenge of me as creative, not thinking on selling but in experimenting. The smoke was not so visible as previous shoots, but it gaves a natural feeling, specially on skin tones, naturallity of the scenario. I have been tired of artificial backlighted scenarios, and I needed a break to experiment with natural light. However I will go back to strong backlights and old school techniques.

Also I've experimented with wide angle lenses (24mm-35mm) doing close up on the face but the full body is still visible (as a webcams works), as I was also tired of using tele lenses (usually 70-200mm) that give an anamorphic vision of the model. I'll love to hear your comments when I release those wide angle close ups. I have used it on bed scenes, where the camera sits close to the model giving a sense of 'laying right at you' on the bed. I'm sure you will be pleased.

I see an interesting conflict of likes/dislikes on some audiences, and it is the RAY (right af you) exhales agains profile cone exhales. Here is a divergence of opinions, as I received many emails asking for RAY exhales, as if this is a fetish on itself. Many others hate RAY exhales. I'll keep combining both styles on upcoming videos with the right models, but giving preference to profile cone exhales.

And finally, yes, I see that the main point is the model, how commited and addicted is, and this is the centerfold of everything. Also interviews is a common request, but I've repeated the same questions to the models again and again. So i'll open a new thread on this forum, asking you for suggestions about new questions that can be made to heavy smoking models.

Guys, please don't stop suggesting here, I'm tracking this thread even if I don't answer, and each one of your opinions is considered and will influence my future shootings.
I truly appreciate your feedback! Thanks!

First what I do not like (this is shorter):

- outside: If a smokingsweetie is smoking outside often the smoking sounds are not very good and some intimacy is missing in my opinion.

- distracting sound: What I want to hear are smoking sounds only, or a smokingsweeties' voice talking about smoking, but not any distractions like TV, music, traffic etc.

Now to the long list of what I would like to see more :-) :

+ tar stained filters: I absolutely love seeing the cigarette filters of hard smoking smokingsweeties turning darker and darker, first yellow, then light brown and finally dark brown, nearly black (like in the great Sephora video). The point is that I would like to see the *change* from pure white to dark brown, meaning that the camera angle needs to correspond to the angle of the smokingsweeties holding their cigarettes. I also like it very much if they show their dark brown filter directly to the camera from time to time.

+ multiple drags without exhaling: Many of the heavy smoking smokingsweeties take multiple drags but exhale the smoke of their first drag through the nose while taking another. This is great, but it is even greater to see them take one *huge* drag after the other without exhaling in-between, until they finally exhale a huge amount of smoke in many exhales.

+ drag, inhale and exhale sound: One of the major reasons why I come back to smokingsweeties all the time are the superb smoking sounds which are a major ingredient to make a smoking clip work for me. I love the sound of a smokingsweetie inhaling the smoke deep into her lungs and of exhaling the smoke through her pursed lips, I like the different sounds of different kinds of inhales (e.g. snap inhales), and most of all I like the sounds produced by the sheer power of dragging on their cigarettes. I like the crackling of the tobacco, but even more the kind squeaking or creaking sounds - these are the best!

+ hard drags, deep inhales: I love smokingsweeties taking one hard drag after the other with long and deep inhales without pausing in-between.

+ fast smoking: I like it when a smokingsweetie smokes really fast, with deeply inhaled drags, exhaling only now and then, until the smoke of the whole cigarette has been inhaled in record time (and then take a look at the tar stained filter). It is possible to do this in less than a minute. I would love to see and hear something like this in smokingsweeties quality:
www youtube com/watch?v=Hou74e0hYeg&feature=share&list=PL808691389FA31F56

+ "natural" multiples: I love to watch smokingsweeties smoke multiples whenever one can see that they enjoy it and smoke their cigarettes with the same enthusiasm and long and heavy drags as a single cigarette. I know this cannot be done by all smokingsweeties, and two or three cigarettes is the limitation for it to work. I was a bit disappointed by Franchezca smoking three at once, as she wasn't smoking as vigorously and did not seem to enjoy it. But it was exceptionally to watch Andrea or Vanessa smoke three at once (but not five at once - Vanessa had difficulties and did not drag as hard).

+ feet: I know, this is a site showing smoking fetish. But as I have a serious double fetish I am happy about every time I can see the feet of a smokingsweetie, e.g. bare feet with painted toenails or feet and legs inside coarse fishnets, while watching the smokingsweetie smoke like a fiend. It does not need to look deliberate, but I would be very grateful if you would consider showing a few feet "just by chance" while smoking. E.g. I would love to see Franchezka's feet or Vanessa's feet or Gwen's feet or Sephora's feet or Judit's feet or... (and I would love to see Sephora and Judit again!). Of course, I would like some more foot specific stuff mixed with smoking, but I doubt I will get it... ;-)

+ first cigarette after some hours with none: I would love to see a smokingsweetie who is a very heavy smoker just after not being able to smoke for some hours during the day, just before she is able to smoke the first cigarette for a long time. I long to see her grabbing for a cigarette, lighting it and greedily taking one long drag after the other to satisfy her cravings. This would be a good time for power smoking, fast smoking and multiples smoking. An idea which could work out really great: The first cigarette given to the smokingsweetie could be a very, very light one. I would like to see her face as she is disappointed with the cigarette but tries to get as much smoke out of the cigarette as possible. After that cigarette she may then have very strong cigarettes, perhaps even multiples...

+ craving: Next to seeing smokingsweeties craving their cigarettes I would love listening to them telling how it feels to crave for smoke - best told after some hours without smoke, before she is smoking her first cigarette. I would like the description to be very detailed (Spanish with subtitles will probably give more detailed), telling how she feels in her lungs and in her body when the craving starts, when it becomes stronger and how it does feel, when the cravings finally are satisfied.

+ long neck, pinned up hair: I would love to see the long neck of a (blond) smokingsweetie with pinned up hair from diagonally behind while she smokes heavily (giving a good view to the tar stained filter as well!).

+ long slender fingers: I love seeing a cigarette rest for a moment (while the smoke is inside the lungs) in a long and slender hand with long and slender fingers (showing the tar stained filter?!) - of course I wouldn't mind if the hand rested next to her long and slender toes...

Fran, I hope you can find some inspiration in my detailed descriptions. I'm longing to see the results...
:-)

Continue Doing:
-Switching to interviewing models in their native language with subtitles has been a great decision. Sometimes when models spoke in poor English they did not have the language to speak well of their feelings. With the subtitles, the translation is there but we get to see the model in a more natural, authentic personality.
-Featuring great audio and terrific lighting
-Featuring the popular models on the website, Jen, Vanessa, Andrea, Dessi, Helen (who i heard quit) etc.
-Focus on heavily addicted models or those that have a powerful smoking style.
-Focus on girls who inhale properly from their chest/stomach and breathe in lots of air to push the smoke deep inside.
-Featuring coughing and obstructed lung sounds, exploring the dark side of the fetish during the interviews
-Powersmoking with both quickly smoking cigarettes and consecutive drags without breathes of fresh air. Also chainsmoking.
-Lung holds lung holds long holds, I want a model that buries the smoke deep and does not let it out.

Stop Doing:
-Featuring models who do not inhale deeply or who have not been smoking very long, with exceptions to models such as Anna MC who inhales and holds the smoke so well you'd never know.
-Outdoor/public shoots because the audio and lighting is never able to be as strong.
-Multiple model shoots, unless perhaps it is a way to audition 5 brand new models, once I like a girl I want to only watch one per video
-Advertising the speed at which a model smokes the cigarette when the video has been edited, I am a post-production person myself and I understand what editing can do, so when the camera cuts sometimes I know a model has waited longer to drag than in the video, so it loses it's meaning. If you're going to advertise the speed a model smokes, make no cuts that aren't simply switching camera angles until the cigarette is complete.
-The cigarettes suspended from strings and the smoking deviceRosy used in her last video was a neat idea to try, but I would simply prefer more straightforward smoking to these tricks.

Begin Doing:
-I would like to see models asked more about how smoking has affected their health, if they notice side effects or negative effects, how much they cough etc
-Ask the models about their daily routine as it pertains to smoking, if they say they smoke 30 cigarettes a day, I want to know when they do most of that smoking.
-Focus on themes to each video as they relate to people's special interests. For example, some people like feet and request that, so if you have a video with feet, have that be a big part of the video instead of just something done in the middle. Since everybody is in to different things and you'll never satisfy everyone with one video, focus on a niche for each release instead of having 3-4 different things you try to appeal to. Release one interview/video focused entirely on the darkside, another entirely on glamour, don't mix the two, that way fans of each get exactly what they want and not just some of it.
-Releasing short preview clips so we know what we are downloading, this would help me in my purchasing decisions, sometimesI buy a video and do not like what I got based on the description and it can make me more hesitant to download future releases.
-Hire me as you post-production guy so you can release more content quicker! (I'm an audio/video editer!)