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Post by NWA Fanatic on Mar 11, 2016 18:42:33 GMT -8
We need promos. I really don't understand why that is so hard to get. Talent want to be paid for their work. They're not gonna got the extra mile if they're not gonna get some more green from the promoter. Even though we like in a world where everyone just about has a smartphone with a video camera.
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Post by dkm on Mar 11, 2016 18:47:59 GMT -8
You can get a decent HD video camera and tripod for under $300 if you look for sales and deals. Curtains are cheap to hang behind you and a lot of simple video editing software comes with computers. It's an investment most should make.
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Post by JADEN on Mar 11, 2016 22:02:20 GMT -8
We need promos. I really don't understand why that is so hard to get. Talent want to be paid for their work. They're not gonna got the extra mile if they're not gonna get some more green from the promoter. Even though we like in a world where everyone just about has a smartphone with a video camera. Make it part of their job.. If they don't do it then pay them less or don't use them
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Post by NWA Fanatic on Mar 12, 2016 6:14:09 GMT -8
You can get a decent HD video camera and tripod for under $300 if you look for sales and deals. Curtains are cheap to hang behind you and a lot of simple video editing software comes with computers. It's an investment most should make. Now a days you don't need an expensive camera to cut a promo, hell remember David was a little confused with your video that you shot at an indy show a few months ago, it looked professional quality.
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Post by josephd32 on Mar 12, 2016 7:34:14 GMT -8
I don't. Most of them are shit quality and are recorded on a smartphone or what have you. Also, most promo guys in the indies aren't great. And this is why many wrestlers and most promotions don't bother with doing promo videos, and why there is no investment made in getting better equipment when promotions are already struggling for cash, because they figure, nobody is going to watch anyway.
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Post by philvarlese on Mar 12, 2016 8:02:32 GMT -8
When we ran the Force One Training Center, I was responsible for promos. We'd take a bunch of the guys and sit them down around the ring. I'd pick 2 students, and tell them they were working a program, and then give them 30 seconds to come up with a 60 second promo. We'd time them. The first few weeks that we tried this, it was a disaster. Over the weeks that followed, most of them became quite good at cutting a promo on the fly, and even getting their timing down to a one minute promo.
It's not difficult, unless no one has worked on it with you. The DAWG promotion always makes sure that each worker cuts a promo for their upcoming shows. I look forward to them because in most cases their workers can promo with the best of them. Same is true of most of the Smoky Mountain workers.
We had a kid who was one of my favorite wrestlers back in the Force One days. He had a great look, and could move well with lots of high flying along with his technical proficiency. His one drawback was that his promos not only sounded forced, but when he spoke, he sounded like he had a handful of marbles in his mouth. Strange, because when we were just BSing, he didn't sound like that at all. I spent considerable time trying to work him through it, but it never happened.
He ended up working for a pretty good promotion, ECWA and was one of their belt holders for many years, but he could never get much beyond that, and I attribute it to his lousy promos, and God forbid you hand him the mic when he was in the middle of the ring.
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Post by tonybrooklyn on Mar 12, 2016 10:18:11 GMT -8
"I am not interested how it looked. I am interested in how things sounded." This may be the best line ever when it come to wrestling. Crowd reaction is everything. At my events, I watched the crowd more than the ring action. I didn't need to see the match to know if it was good or not. The crowd told me everything I needed to know.
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