WCW had insane TV production work that you literally never saw anywhere else before or after. How the FUCK were they so goddamn good at that shit?
>>19791970>Makeshift scaffolding >Good productionLMAOOOOO
Old school pre-LED know-how combined with an enormous budget.
>>19791970WCW, notoriously great production
>>19791977>>19791984I'm talking strictly about the camera work. That was their bread and butter. They'd have pans, cuts, and transitions that you just don't see in WWE/AEW
Their use of fireworks was also top notch. Especially with how loud they were, it enhanced the theme and entrance of the wrestler. Prime example, Goldberg
Vince didn't get a clue until he talked to Dick Ebersol, president of NBC, about what would improve the quality of his television product. WCW had the Turner broadcasting machine behind it from day one adn when Bisch took over, he updated it ffrom the kiddy friendly Disney MGM studios and improved the sets and the look and everything. Its interesting to think of what the company would have loook ed like had it stayed around long enough to relocate out of the Atlanta and the South in general and move to Las Vegas like they were planning to. Imagine staying at a casino in the Las Vegas strip centered around WCW.
>>19791995The pyro was so fucking weird at times too. Sometimes it would be completely random, like so random that it often scared or surprised the wrestler on the way to the ring.
>>19792008Good pyro should scare the hell out of everyone in the building.
>>19791970WCW had cool, intentionally unrefined, grungy productionfelt like a biker gang was putting the show together
WWE has looked like shit for years>LEDs fucking eveywhere>35 cuts in between each punch>no more Raw/Smackdown sets
>>19791970WCW had great production. Expect on titantrons they newer fully figured that out. Sure the OG Nitro stage didn't have a titantron but many of their PPV sets in 1996, 1997 and 1998 had titantrons. And they just couldn't get them right.It's also funny how much cheaper their PPV sets were compared to Nitro. With PPV sets using the old WCW blue aprons and mats from the early 90s.
>>19792146And WCW Thunder's titantron's sucked because for some reason WCW insisted on using Black and White titantron videos there.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUt-CTgLMWw
>>19791970Bischoff had unique ways to use the camera, but unfortunately outside of it, WCW looked very cheap in comparison. Cool sets and I liked the Cam pointing at the guy while walking down (Buff was great at just cutting a promo), but there was a lot of stupid shit like random pyro going off, songs being poorly synched and shit. Still better than the tired formats from AEW and WWE today though.It's weird because at the start, AEW used some of the old WCW angles and it looked great, but then they just went full WWE lite with it.
I would have sex with this ring
>>19791970I don't know man, I always thought their arenas looked dim and smokey. Pyro is cool and all but I swear every week Nitro would have a haze during like half the show lol, don't remember that happening too often in WWF even though they had a bunch of pyro as well at the time.
