Paid Members chokeout Posted September 16, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 16, 2016 Entrance videos in nxt are shocking. Most of them are templates bought off a website and have the generic default font. Really bugs me how little effort is put into them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Doesn't bother me at all considering how good the product itself is. Ā I see it as they need somewhere to go with it once they're on the main roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 Considering how outstanding many of the entrance themes in NXT are, it is a bit odd that most of the entrance videos are so low-rent. Ā I guess very little creativity goes into any of the videos for main roster guys nowadays though, which is a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 I think it's they don't want to take away from the entrances of workers. Ā If people in the audience are more focuses on watching what's on the big screen why use the money on pyro and lighting and music and working on an entrance routine? It's like the screens are there much like they are at big sports games for the cheap seats to see these days, nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 A great video can really enhance a wrestler's entrance, not distract from it. Look at Nakamura's for the best example. When the screen goes dark then his name flashes up in great big red letters and you see his silhouette in front of it, that's a spectacular visual. Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Watching this weeks episode, and a really good match between Drew Gulak and Itami, but this was the first week that I really noticed Itami's left arm since coming back from the surgery. It's noticeably smaller than his right arm now, although not to Mr Wonderful levels. He also seems to some awkward loose skin right his surgery scar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 (edited) I think it's they don't want to take away from the entrances of workers. Ā If people in the audience are more focuses on watching what's on the big screen why use the money on pyro and lighting and music and working on an entrance routine? It's like the screens are there much like they are at big sports games for the cheap seats to see these days, nothing else. What's the point in having the screen then? You really think WWE are going, "Don't make those entrance videos too flashy, we want the focus on our pro wrestlers!"Ā WWE are all about presentation. Edited September 17, 2016 by Your Fight Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 As I said within my quoted comment for a big screen use for those in the cheap seats to see the action rather than pay a ton of cash to not be able to see anything from a distance. It helps if you actually read what you're quoting instead of acting like a tit. Nice use of italics though, misrepresentation on pro wrestlers though, we all know they're sports entertainers... Ā It is what it is. With the likes of Nakamura it adds to the entrance more than a bunch of clipped together images of him kneeing people in the head would, with some using basic clip art graphics isn't as cool as D'Lo Brown hitting the Lo Down on a bunch of guys while the video skips to the sounds in his track, but if people are putting tons of money into Bobby Roode having a rotating platform or marketing John Cena's salute as a trademark of his gimmick with the towel and such as well, why would they want fans to be paying any other attention away from that. Ā The entrance ramp and screen having the Raw graphics or someone's name pop up in big lights gives people the idea who they are, then their character builds from that. Otherwise we'd end up with Dolph Ziggler doing a tribute band in his entrance video to get over the whole rockstar stealing the show thing he's hoped to be for the last 5 years. Ā WWE are all about presentation though, you're right about that, but why waste a ton of money in one area that characteristically was just a 30 second loop video when they can put that extra money their spending into HD interactive ring aprons and ring posts, pyro, lighting and the likes. Ā There's good presentation and then there's going over the top and it looking utter shite, like 6 sided rings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 (edited) big screen use for those in the cheap seats to see the action rather than pay a ton of cash to not be able to see anything from a distance. Ā Thatās clearly not the case though. Weāre discussing NXT, an intimate environment where they stick the logo up on the massive screen during matches. Ā Nice use of italics though, misrepresentation on pro wrestlers though, we all know they're sports entertainers... Ā I used āpro wrestlersā intentionally to highlight that very point. Ā WWE isnāt about wrestling. Itās an entertainment showālike say Cirque du Soleil. Itās not just about the performers but the whole package, and the production values you come to expect from a show like that or WWE. Entrance videos are part of that.Ā Cirque du Soleil would just be another circus show if it was the performers in a tent and nothing else. Youāre telling me the production values arenāt also part of the show? Edited September 17, 2016 by Your Fight Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 (edited) Shydad, I don't know if you even know what point you're trying to make there. By the logic that they wouldn't want entrance videos taking attention away from the wrestlers, why would they even be installing LEDs to aprons and ringposts? Edited September 17, 2016 by Arch Stanton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonworden Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Not sure if I was imagining it on the main shows recently but havent entrance videos started to be phased out in favor of more graphic/ logo based stuff on the screen. I certainly have seen it with Owens and Balor recently and i'm sure a few others.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted September 17, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 I'll be honest I'm probably not sure what point I'm making. Trying to pack for a masters I'm trying to budget for, I'm like a bear with a bad head. Apologies Fight Site. Ā I think to some degree I went with RAW/SmackDown over NXT as a reason for the lack of graphics as its as noticeable on the bigger stage much as Simon mentioned above as it is the smaller one for NXT but considering we're in a NXT thread maybe it was a point out of nothing. Ā I just don't believe graphics on the screen make a difference and take a lot away from the wrestlers themselves but I'm finding it impossible to explain. Ā With the led lights though on the ring, I have the attention span of a newt but with lights guiding me towards the ring and with the HD cameras and such it gives it such a nicer presentation in regards to that and the cirque comment above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavemanLynn Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 The wrestler's name in huge gimmick letters on a theme background does much more for me than the usual filtered reel of movez everyone seems to get on the main roster. I love that most of NXT's entrances are based on camera work, smoke and lighting. Dillinger, Blake and Murphy, and of course Nakamura are all brilliant examples of this. Samoa Joe and his big fat angry murder face. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted September 22, 2016 Awards Moderator Share Posted September 22, 2016 Thoughts on this week: Ā Samoa Joe continues to be ace on the mic. That little standoff with Regal on the ramp was tense as anything, I thought Regal was in real trouble for a moment. Ā Is this Oney Lorcan guy signed? I hope not, because I don't think much of him at all. He's got a fairly rubbish look and I'm not that keen on his matches either. He certainly shouldn't be going toe to toe with Aries. Ā I am intrigued by Dan Matha though. He looks tall. I like that. Ā I've already forgotten who won the Billie Kay/Aliyah match. Ā Andrade vs Alexander was a great TV match but if they're still going with Cien as a babyface they're really making it hard for themselves continuing to put him against people the crowd like more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I believe Lorcan is signed, he used to be known as Biff Busick on the indies and got signed at the same time as Swann. They gave him a win over Dillinger and he cut a really bad promo afterwards, like not even a "what were you thinking?" promo - just a "well, you clearly can't talk" promo. I like his in-ring though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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