On getting the NXT digital team to work on this:
“We’ve got to figure out how to make this work now, but we had a hell of a team, and we started to put some stuff together. And we came up with some ideas, and then one of the tricks became, as you’re beginning to put this together, there’s only so much bandwidth of technology that can go around.
So we lay out all this stuff, come up with this concept and ideas, and we finally get to a place like some of this stuff could work. This might be good with this design team that’s going to build out this little set, and I get to our tech people and I’m like, so how many people do I have in a crew for this, the camera crew? And they were like right now I got you one camera, and I’m trying to get you a second one, and I was like that don’t work.
So I called up higher than that and was told yeah no. We’re shooting WrestleMania right now. Like I can get you one. I’m trying to get you a second.
So I then went to Vince, and I pitched him the concept and the idea. He’s like, ‘I love it. That sounds awesome.’ And then I said, ‘well problem is right now, I have one camera.’ He’s like, ‘well you can’t do it with one camera’, and I’m like, ‘well, I know.’
So I said I have a solution on it, but I don’t know that anybody else is going to be in favor of this and my solution was to use the digital team from NXT, Jeremy Borash and a team of digital shooters that we use there. A different format.
I said, look we can shoot it with them and we can do it cinematic style and I could bring a bunch of cameras and I can shoot all at once. I’ll shoot it like a film. I’ll shoot it in a different format. And you know, I believe we can create something special with this, and I don’t know I think most everybody else was against it.
Vince was like, ‘well, I don’t see we have much choice. So that’s what we’re going to do’.”
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