Post by jim345 on May 21, 2011 4:48:59 GMT -5
ditching everything TNA or Impact Wrestling has been or currently is and what it's likely heading to be
Lose the traditional format altogether and try to come up with a show that might be different enough to get some viewers and establish itself as a wholly different entertainment product featuring a wrestling aspect.
Trim down to an hour. No more ppvs. Replace that with sells from DVDs of seasons of the show with behind the scenes extras you couldn't just get through saving the program on your d v r.
Move to Los Angeles. Set up in a studio. Because you can't fill up the small studio arena with the same type of fans that hankered the Impact production, you don't have a studio audience for the show. This is also why you don't tour, your name recognition or lack thereof doesn't allow you to fill arenas enough to compete with the WWE. No, you're a different type of product. A drama based fantasy action series shot in a different way than the WWE. Something more zoned in and focused like a SYFY original program or an FX show....
Just go with me, here.
The studio is not jazzed up any with cheesy lights and neon signs or logos. All there is is a black MMA mat and a spotlight. Yes. No traditional wrestling ring with wrestling ropes. No. I'm not talking about worked MMA matches. I'm talking about wrestling exhibitions, just like that take place in a wrestling show, only without many of the typical spots that use a wrestling ring. I.E. top rope moves and irish whips, etc. Would this be too different and off putting to the traditional wrestling fan, maybe? but that doesn't matter. We're going with something different here and aren't afraid of trying. There's no studio audience to rip on the product, and the internet isn't considered. All that matters is if new fans tune in to watch this product or not. Other non-grappling portions of the show are shot on locale around some of the more beautiful or "exotic" places in the 'City of Angels'
The name of the show doesn't have wrestling in its title. In fact you're not even a wrestling promotion anymore. You're a new kind of wrestling program, or more just a fantasy action series involving wrestling. Which I've already stated.
Back away from the traditional wrestling characters and roles and angles and promos and sports-entertainment skits and 'hilarity' or whatever. Do something new. And not reality based, like this series appears to possibly be. This isn't tough enough or an insider show like reaction.
Picture this as like a Comic Book wrestling fantasy or 'sci fi' style show set in modern day Los Angeles. Half shot in various locations around L.A. and this darkened studio arena with a single black MMA mat and spotlight shining dimly upon it.
Make your stars, not wrestlers and not a roster, are appealing to a wider television audience. Do this with it factor and character appeal. Something very similar to what the WWE is doing with their villainous 'masked' Cody Rhodes character.
Picture a rugged Kurt Angle as the Lex Luthor of this new show. Just an idea.
A cleaned up Bobby Roode, badass and with the raw sexual appeal of someone off a show such as Sons of Anarchy. A rebranded and polished Velvet sky as a siren of the series. Characters like Winter toned down or written better for and used in a more effective manner.
others even better also appearing in this product.
but 'pushed' in a different way. not in a traditional wrestling push kind of way, but in a character driven sort of way
Does this sound appealing at all?
The show of course is filmed, with one of the advantages of not having an audience being spoilers are never leaked. Through clever camera work and technique we see wrestling shot in a whole new way, leaving out botches and less flattering moments. We see sweat fly in slow motion and special moves executed seemingly to perfection. It feels like you're watching a fight from an action movie or a videogame. Leaving behind the typical structure of a wrestling match, pinfalls do not matter and the 'fight' or 'conflict' being shot is over and or decided in new and inventive ways.
Also, forgetting traditional wrestling things like championships and contenders, you leave the door open for fans to find the stars appealing for storyline and 'conflict' reasons, virtually taking away the whole "So and so isn't getting pushed, I hate this!" scenario. (not totally but more so than if you leave it as is)
Have a handful of big stars for the show, cycling in side characters with side storylines to keep everything fresh
Lose the traditional format altogether and try to come up with a show that might be different enough to get some viewers and establish itself as a wholly different entertainment product featuring a wrestling aspect.
Trim down to an hour. No more ppvs. Replace that with sells from DVDs of seasons of the show with behind the scenes extras you couldn't just get through saving the program on your d v r.
Move to Los Angeles. Set up in a studio. Because you can't fill up the small studio arena with the same type of fans that hankered the Impact production, you don't have a studio audience for the show. This is also why you don't tour, your name recognition or lack thereof doesn't allow you to fill arenas enough to compete with the WWE. No, you're a different type of product. A drama based fantasy action series shot in a different way than the WWE. Something more zoned in and focused like a SYFY original program or an FX show....
Just go with me, here.
The studio is not jazzed up any with cheesy lights and neon signs or logos. All there is is a black MMA mat and a spotlight. Yes. No traditional wrestling ring with wrestling ropes. No. I'm not talking about worked MMA matches. I'm talking about wrestling exhibitions, just like that take place in a wrestling show, only without many of the typical spots that use a wrestling ring. I.E. top rope moves and irish whips, etc. Would this be too different and off putting to the traditional wrestling fan, maybe? but that doesn't matter. We're going with something different here and aren't afraid of trying. There's no studio audience to rip on the product, and the internet isn't considered. All that matters is if new fans tune in to watch this product or not. Other non-grappling portions of the show are shot on locale around some of the more beautiful or "exotic" places in the 'City of Angels'
The name of the show doesn't have wrestling in its title. In fact you're not even a wrestling promotion anymore. You're a new kind of wrestling program, or more just a fantasy action series involving wrestling. Which I've already stated.
Back away from the traditional wrestling characters and roles and angles and promos and sports-entertainment skits and 'hilarity' or whatever. Do something new. And not reality based, like this series appears to possibly be. This isn't tough enough or an insider show like reaction.
Picture this as like a Comic Book wrestling fantasy or 'sci fi' style show set in modern day Los Angeles. Half shot in various locations around L.A. and this darkened studio arena with a single black MMA mat and spotlight shining dimly upon it.
Make your stars, not wrestlers and not a roster, are appealing to a wider television audience. Do this with it factor and character appeal. Something very similar to what the WWE is doing with their villainous 'masked' Cody Rhodes character.
Picture a rugged Kurt Angle as the Lex Luthor of this new show. Just an idea.
A cleaned up Bobby Roode, badass and with the raw sexual appeal of someone off a show such as Sons of Anarchy. A rebranded and polished Velvet sky as a siren of the series. Characters like Winter toned down or written better for and used in a more effective manner.
others even better also appearing in this product.
but 'pushed' in a different way. not in a traditional wrestling push kind of way, but in a character driven sort of way
Does this sound appealing at all?
The show of course is filmed, with one of the advantages of not having an audience being spoilers are never leaked. Through clever camera work and technique we see wrestling shot in a whole new way, leaving out botches and less flattering moments. We see sweat fly in slow motion and special moves executed seemingly to perfection. It feels like you're watching a fight from an action movie or a videogame. Leaving behind the typical structure of a wrestling match, pinfalls do not matter and the 'fight' or 'conflict' being shot is over and or decided in new and inventive ways.
Also, forgetting traditional wrestling things like championships and contenders, you leave the door open for fans to find the stars appealing for storyline and 'conflict' reasons, virtually taking away the whole "So and so isn't getting pushed, I hate this!" scenario. (not totally but more so than if you leave it as is)
Have a handful of big stars for the show, cycling in side characters with side storylines to keep everything fresh
