Dusty and the Hard Camera

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Did anyone notice how when Dusty was cutting his promo he wasn't constantly facing the hard camera, he kept moving between each side.



Part of the reason WWE send talent to developmental is to drill in their head camera placement and where WWE would like them to be facing. which I think is a mistake. I mean WWE film with a multicamera set up. The hard camera is a good place to cut to when they need to, but they have enough cameras on the ground that they should be able to get them in place and get the needed shot when something happens not facing the hard camera (and if the cameras don't get the shot from a decent angle on some occasions it is what it is, it's a live event not every shot is going to be right and in fact this adds to the presentation in my opinion)


I think Dusty's promo actually looked alot better because he wasn't facing the hard camera all the time and the ringside cameras managed to follow him well enough when he was looking the other ways, ok alot of the time he was at an angle and you couldn't see his face but I think this looks less contrived and more natural.

[Pushed to the Moon]

I agree. They should address the whole arena and walk around. I think Shawn Michaels tends to do it as well.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I think the difference here is whether you can trust a guy to be able to be aware of camera placement while cutting his promo. Shawn and Dusty are veterans of the days when they had to write their own promos anyway, whereas new guys 'wouldn't have the skills' for that, in theory.

[Chip]

I think this is in part why the audience has begun interjecting themselves into the show much more often. Barely anything on the show is done for the live audience in terms of promo, everything is directed at the camera. I can't help but feel part of it is the audience saying "yo, we exist dudes, talk to us, we bought your f***ing merch"

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Sept 18, 2013 6:52:22 GMT -5 Chip said:

I think this is in part why the audience has begun interjecting themselves into the show much more often. Barely anything on the show is done for the live audience in terms of promo, everything is directed at the camera. I can't help but feel part of it is the audience saying "yo, we exist dudes, talk to us, we bought your f***ing merch"

It's true, it must kinda suck to pay quite a bit of money to go to an even and stare at the back of people's heads for hours on end.

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Thankfully, Dusty comes from an era where half of the audience wasn't staring at people's backs for the entire show.

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Sept 18, 2013 6:52:22 GMT -5 Chip said:

I think this is in part why the audience has begun interjecting themselves into the show much more often. Barely anything on the show is done for the live audience in terms of promo, everything is directed at the camera. I can't help but feel part of it is the audience saying "yo, we exist dudes, talk to us, we bought your f***ing merch"

I went to Raw 1000, which was my first live WWE taping since 1997. I just couldn't believe the start-and-stop feel of the show. Every time a commercial break happened, everything just came to a dead halt, and sometimes you even had commercials playing on the tron.

There's just no way to keep a crowd's energy and interest up when you're doing it like that.