Shawn Michaels Comments on the Technology Advances in the WWE

In an interview with chron.com, Shawn Michaels noted that advances in TV technology allow performers to craft their moves not only with sufficient flair to appeal to fans in the upper deck but with slight nuances that appeal to fans watching on TV.

“You have to continue to hone your craft,” Michaels said. “I have found so much joy in the last year of seeing if I can tell a story and convey emotion and reaction without saying a word, as opposed to the days when I started having to use my entire body to get a point of view across.

“When I started, you didn’t focus so much on production, certainly not, gosh, down to the finest little detail of how you shifted your eyes or how you turned to somebody. A lot of the shots were far away from a still camera. There weren’t as many close-ups and intimacy.”

“We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye, because we know the camera will catch it,” Michaels said. “That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have.”...More?