Response to the brief

Film: A fictional video that can be no longer than two minutes. Initial idea: sports documentary involving football. this would follow someone getting out of the car and stepping on the pitch for training, in this scene I would use over the shoulder shot or a POV (point of view) shot. The camera would then proceed to follow the player as he trains, this would have a variety of shots including extreme long shots, medium shot and also close ups. This would all lead up to the player facing a problem, for example this could be an injury. The target audience for sports documentaries is typically men which have an interest in the specific person that they may see as a role model. However the sports documentary may attract anyone who has an interest in the person or the team in the film. Similar films that are available include... - Senna(2010) this followed a Brazilian formula one driver. - Red Army(2014) this was about the Soviet Union's famed Red Army Hockey team. - Pumping iron(2013) followed a bodybuilder. - Cristiano Ronaldo: World at his feet(2014) a documentary on a famous footballer. Alternative football documentaries include... - Hooligan(2012) - Green street(2005) Both of these films follow the 'dark side of football' and the violence involved in football. After consideration I have decided against basing the film opening on football and changing to a cricket theme. This is because I feel there is a wider opening to create something interesting involving cricket. Typical conventions of a sports documentary: Genre: They typically follow the main character/sports person, they include both 1st person and 3rd person, with interviews with friends and family of the person. It is a common theme for sports documentaries to involve a narrator, this is to keep the information relevant and in full so the audience get the whole picture instead of more than they care to know. Narrative: There is no typical hero/villain or princess in a documentary, there aren't any characters as people in the film play themselves or are played as by an actor. The majority of documentaries involve multiple strands and all are portrayed in a order and are mainly in chronological order. Also there is not a plot to the documentary as it follows the life of the persons events. Sound: Diegetic - interviewer and interviewee conversations, crowds cheering, commentators in the flashbacks to games/past events. Non diegetic - Overlaid narration, over exaggerated crowd noises and music/theme songs may play. Editing: Flashbacks and flash-forwards to key past or up and coming events. There could be slow motions or fast forwards, this could emphasis how important something is/was. Audience: The audience would be anyone with an interest in sports or a certain sports person. Sports documentaries would use reception theory where information is encoded by the film producer, this is where all the information is given to the audience and they therefore don't question what has happened.