When a wrestling fan thinks of ECW, the name Sandman often is included in the conversation quickly. He first appeared on ECW's (then Eastern Championship Wrestling) third-ever show in 1992 and also had the most matches (5) in the company's final year in 2001. Other than his time in WCW in the first part of 1999, he was an ECW mainstay.
One way in which ECW was able to evoke high degrees of emotions from fans watching on TV, despite Sandman being - in essence - a 7 year ECW veteran at the time of his unexpected return from WCW in the Fall of 1999, was to include different camera angles and different camera quality types in the same TV show segment.
At the time, ECW had its main TV production & cameras - seen with the ECW Video Crew t-shirts often at shows - do the main TV quality and home video quality production. Concurrently, ECW also had its "Fan Cam" video crew handle the house shows when there were no TV tapings. On occasion, however, both video crews operated on the same show.
From there, the main video production group (Ron & Charlie) sometimes intermixed the Fan Cam segments with the main video content. The result, when it worked, was to give different perspectives for the fans watching the video to capture the crowd's emotion. The above video (found on YouTube) shows this combining done well as Sandman's return generated such a crowd reaction that adding the "fan cam" footage (in this case from the location above the ECW Arena's original fan entrance area) conveyed just how much the crowd was into Sandman's return to ECW.
Below is the fan cam footage from that above-the-entrance location. Sandman's return starts at the 2:26:45 mark:
Compare the two videos and you will see how this mixing of camera angles, and quality of camera footage, was a rare thing which ECW did... but it worked well when it was done right.
That’s such a cool breakdown of how ECW used different camera angles, It’s amazing how the mix of pro shots and fan footage made the moment feel so real and emotional. It really shows how creative production can bring the fans’ energy to life.