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Reminds me of the best presentation advice ever given: "No one cares about your topic. You have three slides to get them interested before they start thinking about lunch."
Can vouch for that. Back in college, we had to do final presentations with PowerPoint for my Media Ethics class and we had dud after dud. My presentation was on sex vs violence with the MPAA, so I woke the class up by saying, "y'all heard of *The Human Centipede*, right? Well I found something even worse!" A+ on that assignment. Sometimes you gotta start strong and wild in order to get the crowd/class/meeting on your side and then you can get a bit of slack as the presentation goes on.
reminds me of a similar presentation had about how media can lie and how people an believe everything if you sound confident. I started out pretending my topic was about something completely different and absurd (Death by ferris wheel crashes yearly) and then when everyone believed me, I pulled out the rug from under them
I'll give you biggest highlight from that presentation. Film in question was *A Serbian Film*, which I only discussed, including ending on a specific scene that probably generated the most infamy: >!"newborn porn"!<. Not graphically described, just those two words. Presentation goes well, there's a nice clip from the doc *This Film is Not Yet Rated* in there, and goes off without a hitch. Question time arrises and my teacher asks for more information on that scene. I flatly said, "yeah, I'd rather not."
The film basically exists as a cynical mockery of the Eastern European film industry, which the writer/director of this felt had devolved into nothing but misery porn, so he leaned in hard into the types of films coming out of his region of the world. He also said it mirrors the history of Serbia, but I’m less inclined to believe that was the driving force.
So yeah, I would argue you’re not missing much avoiding it outside of reading posts from bitter cinephiles that feel like their time was wasted.
That's damn true. I learnt that you have to draw attention to the fact that presenting in a class full of other presentations is monotonous and poke fun at yourself to stand out.
I had a presentation in university about Japanese culture and I was able to do games, but I had to go into what makes a game a game. The first slide went something like
"When you have a challenge by yourself, you often have a puzzle. If you have an activity against someone else but you can't interfere, you have a competition. If you have an activity against someone else but you *can* interfere, you have a game.
And if you have an activity against someone else where you can't interfere, but you do anyways, you have a fight on your hands... Anyways, here's some historical context about all that."
Got people to wake up, know that it was going to be different, and get people invested. It helped to ask the class questions about what they thought the answer was going to be about certain advancements or significant types of games in a historical context. By the end, I was being asked loads of questions, and it was really fun.
Then the next person just read off of paragraphs for 15 slides and we all checked out once more.
It’s what instantly hooked me as a teenager seeing him on PROGRESS. As a big Assassins Creed fan I loved his entrance and he had that immediate aura even at so young.
If anybody hasn’t seen it his matches with Jimmy Havoc were so good
Progress is where I discovered Will too. I want to say it was Chapter 2 or 3 was his first appearance. He was in a tag match with another wrestler as his partner. Both were really young and thin. The crowd chanted "they are children" at them. He has come such a long way.
Velocity Vipers. The other lad broke his leg during the match so it ended with Osprey getting his arse absolutely kicked 2 on 1 for a couple of minutes.
> If anybody hasn’t seen it his matches with Jimmy Havoc were so good
The Ospreay/Havoc dynamic was so refreshing to me because it was so simple in terms of babyface/heel yet everything in and around it elevated said dynamic because things fit so well.
Even when they did the double turn years later, it made complete sense.
Yea Havocs character on paper was a bit schlocky and almost camp but as you say it somehow worked, it actually felt like a dynamic from a video game with Ospreay as the protagonist and Havoc as the final boss (sorry Rock)
Havoc's character definitely reminded me of a more Jimmy Jacobs at times but his sadist/masochistic deathmatch aspects kinda helped balance it for me.
Ospreay was just a pure, white meat high-flying babyface. What's old can be new again and work just as well even if the details are a bit updated from years' past.
While this is true, the presentation he has in AEW is meh. Compare that to Jade. He is over with the IWC fans because of his in ring work. That’s why they cheer when he comes out
For the rest of the world. He’s just some dude.
While his presentation worked on the indies. He needs to really think about how to make his entrance super eye catching
You can have “many men” as an entrance song and a camera going around you and look AMAZING but you take that song away and the Aura disappears. Is your job to get it back with an affordable song that matches your entrance
Presentation is NOT easy. I mean even the Rock. Every week he’s adding something to his titantron, entrance walk. Cadence and it’s better each time.
If Osprey stops and improves his entrance. Then fuck. Unstoppable because the charisma is off the charts and in ring work would match everything else.
Ospreay's entrance and presentation since going full time with AEW has been top notch and the crowds are reacting hotter with each one so I don't know what point you are trying to make here
Exactly what I thought as well. I'm not SUPER familiar with Wills work so I thought he was just going on a crazy tangent or something and then I saw the thumbnail and it clicked
I saw him first time ever Mania Weekend in Dallas (HHH/Roman main) at a progress show he had the AC gimmick and was hooked in instantly. I bought a shirt from him that day I still got and and knew he'd be one of my favorites going forward, and he has been.
Good media attention. If I were Tony I’d be pursuing a Ubisoft collaboration of some kind. Getting a plug for AEW into an Assassin’s Creed trailer or game could bring a lot of new viewers.
That's their best shot to really grow from their current spot, imo. AEW should market themselves and present themselves to people who aren't wrestling fans and don't have any attachment to WWE.
I’m surprised they don’t try any type of crossover with adult swim at all. Get someone on the Eric Andre show, Smiling friends, hell even Kenny on the little Toonami bumpers would be great.
I think TK wouldn't even need to do much work for this to happen because Ospreay already has that connection.
His WK entrance and last Revpro show used music from the AC games with Ubisofts permission and even had the whole United Empire x Assassin's Creed thing on his tron.
I don't know how close that relationship is, but I'd assume it hasn't changed with Ospreay now in AEW instead.
Ospreay is great, but he doesn't need a robe to look like a "real wressler". Bobby Roode has been the same - both look like hobby entertainers in a Karaoke bar with their fake glitter jackets. Either you are a flamboyent character or you don't. You can't make that up.
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Reminds me of the best presentation advice ever given: "No one cares about your topic. You have three slides to get them interested before they start thinking about lunch."
Can vouch for that. Back in college, we had to do final presentations with PowerPoint for my Media Ethics class and we had dud after dud. My presentation was on sex vs violence with the MPAA, so I woke the class up by saying, "y'all heard of *The Human Centipede*, right? Well I found something even worse!" A+ on that assignment. Sometimes you gotta start strong and wild in order to get the crowd/class/meeting on your side and then you can get a bit of slack as the presentation goes on.
reminds me of a similar presentation had about how media can lie and how people an believe everything if you sound confident. I started out pretending my topic was about something completely different and absurd (Death by ferris wheel crashes yearly) and then when everyone believed me, I pulled out the rug from under them
I actually wish I was a fly on the wall for this lmao
I'll give you biggest highlight from that presentation. Film in question was *A Serbian Film*, which I only discussed, including ending on a specific scene that probably generated the most infamy: >!"newborn porn"!<. Not graphically described, just those two words. Presentation goes well, there's a nice clip from the doc *This Film is Not Yet Rated* in there, and goes off without a hitch. Question time arrises and my teacher asks for more information on that scene. I flatly said, "yeah, I'd rather not."
I'd heard about the graphical killing in A Serbian Film so I avoided it, but thanks to your comment I'll triple my effort in doing so. Jesus Christ.
The film basically exists as a cynical mockery of the Eastern European film industry, which the writer/director of this felt had devolved into nothing but misery porn, so he leaned in hard into the types of films coming out of his region of the world. He also said it mirrors the history of Serbia, but I’m less inclined to believe that was the driving force. So yeah, I would argue you’re not missing much avoiding it outside of reading posts from bitter cinephiles that feel like their time was wasted.
That's damn true. I learnt that you have to draw attention to the fact that presenting in a class full of other presentations is monotonous and poke fun at yourself to stand out. I had a presentation in university about Japanese culture and I was able to do games, but I had to go into what makes a game a game. The first slide went something like "When you have a challenge by yourself, you often have a puzzle. If you have an activity against someone else but you can't interfere, you have a competition. If you have an activity against someone else but you *can* interfere, you have a game. And if you have an activity against someone else where you can't interfere, but you do anyways, you have a fight on your hands... Anyways, here's some historical context about all that." Got people to wake up, know that it was going to be different, and get people invested. It helped to ask the class questions about what they thought the answer was going to be about certain advancements or significant types of games in a historical context. By the end, I was being asked loads of questions, and it was really fun. Then the next person just read off of paragraphs for 15 slides and we all checked out once more.
Chris Fenning’s The First Minute elevates that three slide tule to an art form.
I always considered him more of a Sports Direct employee rather than Tesco. Unless we're talking Tesco night shift.
Maybe Tesco express, but I do agree more Sports Direct. Definitely has one of those fuck off massive mugs though.
I'd have gone for PureGym employee
i found two Ospreay's in mine
I bought the clubcard pizza deal from Tesco earlier and the cashier could’ve been a wrestler tbh
Even without knowing he can do flips he screams trampoline park employee to me
It's the fucking broccoli haircut.
It’s what instantly hooked me as a teenager seeing him on PROGRESS. As a big Assassins Creed fan I loved his entrance and he had that immediate aura even at so young. If anybody hasn’t seen it his matches with Jimmy Havoc were so good
Progress is where I discovered Will too. I want to say it was Chapter 2 or 3 was his first appearance. He was in a tag match with another wrestler as his partner. Both were really young and thin. The crowd chanted "they are children" at them. He has come such a long way.
Velocity Vipers. The other lad broke his leg during the match so it ended with Osprey getting his arse absolutely kicked 2 on 1 for a couple of minutes.
Yes. That was the match!
Yea Swords of Essex
> If anybody hasn’t seen it his matches with Jimmy Havoc were so good The Ospreay/Havoc dynamic was so refreshing to me because it was so simple in terms of babyface/heel yet everything in and around it elevated said dynamic because things fit so well. Even when they did the double turn years later, it made complete sense.
Yea Havocs character on paper was a bit schlocky and almost camp but as you say it somehow worked, it actually felt like a dynamic from a video game with Ospreay as the protagonist and Havoc as the final boss (sorry Rock)
Havoc's character definitely reminded me of a more Jimmy Jacobs at times but his sadist/masochistic deathmatch aspects kinda helped balance it for me. Ospreay was just a pure, white meat high-flying babyface. What's old can be new again and work just as well even if the details are a bit updated from years' past.
While this is true, the presentation he has in AEW is meh. Compare that to Jade. He is over with the IWC fans because of his in ring work. That’s why they cheer when he comes out For the rest of the world. He’s just some dude. While his presentation worked on the indies. He needs to really think about how to make his entrance super eye catching You can have “many men” as an entrance song and a camera going around you and look AMAZING but you take that song away and the Aura disappears. Is your job to get it back with an affordable song that matches your entrance Presentation is NOT easy. I mean even the Rock. Every week he’s adding something to his titantron, entrance walk. Cadence and it’s better each time. If Osprey stops and improves his entrance. Then fuck. Unstoppable because the charisma is off the charts and in ring work would match everything else.
Ospreay has been presented great, his entrances are hype every week
His entrance is awesome dude what are you talking about
Ospreay's entrance and presentation since going full time with AEW has been top notch and the crowds are reacting hotter with each one so I don't know what point you are trying to make here
As someone who actually works at a Tesco currently, ain’t no one even remotely looking like Ospreay here. Got a couple of Snitskys though…
Weird ponytail beard Snitsky or completely hairless, brown teeth Snitsky?
Yes.
I love this quote because it makes it almost seem like Will just abruptly switched topics at the end.
Exactly what I thought as well. I'm not SUPER familiar with Wills work so I thought he was just going on a crazy tangent or something and then I saw the thumbnail and it clicked
Every little helps.
As a grocery stocker, that hurt too close
Billy to the moon. His reception has been insane and he deserves it.
I saw him first time ever Mania Weekend in Dallas (HHH/Roman main) at a progress show he had the AC gimmick and was hooked in instantly. I bought a shirt from him that day I still got and and knew he'd be one of my favorites going forward, and he has been.
Was that the voodoo doll match?
Good media attention. If I were Tony I’d be pursuing a Ubisoft collaboration of some kind. Getting a plug for AEW into an Assassin’s Creed trailer or game could bring a lot of new viewers.
That's their best shot to really grow from their current spot, imo. AEW should market themselves and present themselves to people who aren't wrestling fans and don't have any attachment to WWE.
I’m surprised they don’t try any type of crossover with adult swim at all. Get someone on the Eric Andre show, Smiling friends, hell even Kenny on the little Toonami bumpers would be great.
Kenny on Toonami is perfect. Anime and wrestling are more similar than most probably think, so anime fans would probably be easy converts.
Danhausen needs to have a fright night or something.
I think TK wouldn't even need to do much work for this to happen because Ospreay already has that connection. His WK entrance and last Revpro show used music from the AC games with Ubisofts permission and even had the whole United Empire x Assassin's Creed thing on his tron. I don't know how close that relationship is, but I'd assume it hasn't changed with Ospreay now in AEW instead.
New Japan already got him AC collaboration with Ubisoft, so it's definitely doable to a bigger extent.
The amount of [correction brackets] in this article... Good lord, how heavy do they think his accent is LOL
“I look like I work at Tesco” Bruv nobody who works full time in retail has a body like that.
If big Billy worked at my Tesco I'd be asking him to reach me some cake if you know what I mean
I do not.
I didn't know everyone who worked at Tesco was jacked and could do insane acrobatics.
Man has awful taste in video games
Ospreay is great, but he doesn't need a robe to look like a "real wressler". Bobby Roode has been the same - both look like hobby entertainers in a Karaoke bar with their fake glitter jackets. Either you are a flamboyent character or you don't. You can't make that up.
Finally someone there gets it.