Yesterday I was watching the recent TNA PPV and I realised exactly what was wrong with the TNA product. It is the direction and production of their output that makes it look shoddy and second rate compared to WWE. I appreciate that their budget is minscule compared to WWE's, but there were some terrible unforced errors by TNA, that are not in anyway cost related.
5 minutes into the broadcast they had promos for all of the upcoming matches, in which they flashed the match type up on the screen. These titles were simply white writing on a black background, simple. anyone could make them on Powerpoint or word or paint, anything, without any problems. Except TNA, who wrote Jersey Steet Fight. To miss the R out of Street is ridiculously unprofessional and uneccessary. That mistake shouldn't have been made at all.
During said steet match, the action went into the crowd. It was completely obvious from what the commentators said and the nature of the match that this was going to happen, so why didn't they have a camera man in the crowd, or use the high angle camera and point and zoom? Instead they filmed from ringside with members of the crowd repeatedly getting in the way.
Finally, the commentators, who are awful by the way, have their mics turned up so load, that when the crowd are getting behind something, instead of feeling the atmosphere, I get to hear Don West having an orgasm at FULL BLAST. It's terrible.
TNA has better matches, better wrestlers and dare I say it better storylines than ECW and maybe even the other two programmes, but as long as it looks like a 16 year old Media Studies student has filmed it, it is not ever going to entice people to watch. It looks amateur and would not impress a channel surfer. Does anyone else notice this?
5 minutes into the broadcast they had promos for all of the upcoming matches, in which they flashed the match type up on the screen. These titles were simply white writing on a black background, simple. anyone could make them on Powerpoint or word or paint, anything, without any problems. Except TNA, who wrote Jersey Steet Fight. To miss the R out of Street is ridiculously unprofessional and uneccessary. That mistake shouldn't have been made at all.
During said steet match, the action went into the crowd. It was completely obvious from what the commentators said and the nature of the match that this was going to happen, so why didn't they have a camera man in the crowd, or use the high angle camera and point and zoom? Instead they filmed from ringside with members of the crowd repeatedly getting in the way.
Finally, the commentators, who are awful by the way, have their mics turned up so load, that when the crowd are getting behind something, instead of feeling the atmosphere, I get to hear Don West having an orgasm at FULL BLAST. It's terrible.
TNA has better matches, better wrestlers and dare I say it better storylines than ECW and maybe even the other two programmes, but as long as it looks like a 16 year old Media Studies student has filmed it, it is not ever going to entice people to watch. It looks amateur and would not impress a channel surfer. Does anyone else notice this?