10 Ways WWE Can Shake Up RAW
3. Enough Sh*tty Production Already
WWE spends astronomical amounts of money on production yet still manages to produce some of the most vomit-inducing visual work in all of television. How is that possible? This is a company that makes huge amounts of money on television and has done for decades. You'd think that it would have learnt how to put on a good-looking television show by now?
First things first, the camera cuts have to go. Plenty has been written about the obsessive jumping from shot to shot to shot but that still isn't enough. It is the sort of thing that drives viewers away, many of them directly to the toilet to throw up. An exaggeration, sure, but the point stands. If you need to attract casual viewers, chaotic camera work is only going to achieve the opposite.
WWE is currently hampered somewhat by, you know, not being able to hold shows in different arenas, but would RAW look any different if it was held around the country? The set is always the same, no matter the arena, no matter the location. It creates a uniform feeling that bleeds through the show, making it immediately stale from a visual point of view.
The flagship show has a huge production budget. It needs to start utilising it.