Adeline Lafouine on filming

How she described professional production and her own independent work.

Working for a production

Asked about her profession in 2020, Lafouine said that a production hires her for a professional shoot. She described an acting element and rehearsing some scenes. A filmed performance takes place around a camera and lighting, with instructions from the people working on the production.

Independent filming

In the same interview, she distinguished those commissioned shoots from material she made for her own blog. She described the latter as less directed, rather than following the working methods of a professional set. Her author biography also includes making adult films among her activities.

A professional and a public persona

Lafouine said that professional production had been incompatible with her former government job. She also discussed the difference between her public performer persona and ordinary daily life. Her account of filming concerns a specific part of her work, with its own collaborators and conditions, rather than a description of everything she does.