Game experience improvements

CandyCanes

Caniac turned Jerkiac
Jan 8, 2015
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You'd think that sort of stuff would be relatively easy to do without a whole lot of money spent on it. For instance, the Bulls have been doing these little vignettes of their top prospects for the last two seasons. The series is called "The Arrival" and generally shows the player's pre-game routine from arrival to the ballpark to right as they take the field. Something like this would be, in my mind, pretty cool for the Canes to do.



Oh it definitely is easy to an extent. I've said this before. But for a few years now the Charlotte Checkers video content is 100x's better entertainment wise and production wise than what the Canesvision staff is doing. And the Checkers have a budget of a damn minor league team... Canesvision production is severely lacking in creativity and content.
 

tarheelhockey

Offside Review Specialist
Feb 12, 2010
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Oh it definitely is easy to an extent. I've said this before. But for a few years now the Charlotte Checkers video content is 100x's better entertainment wise and production wise than what the Canesvision staff is doing. And the Checkers have a budget of a damn minor league team... Canesvision production is severely lacking in creativity and content.

I think Canesvision does OK when it comes to stuff like the pregame intros and the player retrospectives. It’s the routine in-game stuff that feels really flat and is often badly timed.

Some of this stuff doesn’t even require a budget or originality. The kiss cam is a classic for a reason... everyone stops and watches, and it’s easy to make it awkwardly hilarious. Same with “here’s a toddler dancing for the camera”. It’s an easy laugh for anyone with a soul. Players answering awkward questions. Jeff Skinner being in a social situation of any kind. Local celebs trying to explain hockey slang. Stuff like that, whether or not it’s one guy’s cup of tea at a given moment, at least it actively entertains the crowd 30 seconds at a time.

To me, when it’s 4-1 and you can hear a pin drop, that’s the stuff you have in your back pocket to lighten the mood. Not “make some noise” and inspirational film clips that just condescend to the few thousand hardcore fans who are gutting it out.
 

Navin R Slavin

Fifth line center
Jan 1, 2011
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I think Canesvision does OK when it comes to stuff like the pregame intros and the player retrospectives. It’s the routine in-game stuff that feels really flat and is often badly timed.

Some of this stuff doesn’t even require a budget or originality. The kiss cam is a classic for a reason... everyone stops and watches, and it’s easy to make it awkwardly hilarious. Same with “here’s a toddler dancing for the camera”. It’s an easy laugh for anyone with a soul. Players answering awkward questions. Jeff Skinner being in a social situation of any kind. Local celebs trying to explain hockey slang. Stuff like that, whether or not it’s one guy’s cup of tea at a given moment, at least it actively entertains the crowd 30 seconds at a time.

To me, when it’s 4-1 and you can hear a pin drop, that’s the stuff you have in your back pocket to lighten the mood. Not “make some noise” and inspirational film clips that just condescend to the few thousand hardcore fans who are gutting it out.

Some self-awareness would be nice. When we give up that backbreaking goal in the third, play this:

 

Boom Boom Apathy

I am the Professor. Deal with it!
Sep 6, 2006
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Per the Dundon article on NHL.COM

On the fans' in-game experience
"This is entertainment, it's almost like a TV show, and it's not up to the standard that I want it to be. It's the music and the timing and the video playing. There's a hundred little things you've got to do to change that. We've got to look at what everybody does, and there's some equipment we need that we're going to buy. There's a bunch of ways to do it."

On improving in-game operations
"I'm bringing my entire (game-production) staff with me to Dallas this week. The (NBA) Mavericks are going to host them and the Stars are going to host them, and we're going to see how they do their in-game production. I've been to some of these other arenas and we've contacted some of the other teams and everybody's very helpful. We're all in this together, right? ... What I've told them so far is let's get to best in class and then we'll figure out how to be better."
 

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