The subject that we have chosen as a
group is a sport documentary. It is about who football fans are like tribes in
the way they act. The reason we chose this is because Joe and I are very
passionate football fans, we enjoy everything about the sport, love to play and
follow it. To us this meant that we would be able to be more creative and
produce an amazing documentary as we already have a detailed knowledge of
football and its history. The sub genre that it would fall into would be
sporting history, general human history and hooliganism. Football hooliganism
is unruly, violent and destructive behavior by overzealous supports of football
club associations, this includes brawling and vandalism. That’s just a brief
overview of what we’re looking into, however if you look deep enough, you can
go a lot further.
First of all, a bit of background
information: The first recorded incidence of football hooliganism in the modern
game allegedly occurred during the 1880’s in England, a period when gangs of
supporters would intimidate neighborhoods, in addition to attacking referees,
opposing supporters and players. In 1885, after Preston North End beat Aston
Villa 5-0 in just a friendly match, both teams were pelted with stones,
attacked with sticks, punched, kicked and spat at. There was one Preston player
that was beaten so severely that he lost consciousness and press reports at the
time described the fans as “howling rough”.
The two most well know football
teams for hooliganism and football violence is Millwall and West Ham. As they
were possibly the worst football rivalry the BBC made three Hooligan
Documentaries and on BBC Panorama they posted a short video in 2009 of Millwall
Hooligans.
Quick stat: In the 2011/12 season
there was 1,215 arrests made inside the stadium and 1,148 arrests made outside
the grounds from all competitions in England and Wales.
Looking more in-depth, various
terms can be used to describe our documentary as we have not only incorporated
but also merged bags of ideas. The first term that springs to mind is
anthropology, which illustrates the study of human behaviour. To be more specific, to describe our
documentary correctly, it is under the category of social and cultural
anthropology. This is the investigation of norms and values of societies, past
and present. This does indeed links directly in with our study of human aspects
regarding sense of belonging, in terms of a common passion. The studies in
which humans come together; in matters of the up most importance – this is what
we could call tribes! The traditional tribal definition can now be applied to
many different aspects of contemporary society, including football. We have
bridged the gap - that so many have tried and failed - between football and
culture.
The documentary could also
potentially be considered as historical because in many ways it offers insight
and an understanding of what tribal life was like many, many years ago. This
has been achieved through the use of archive footage and brilliant narration
that is the voice over (VO). In relation to the VO, it is fantastically
scripted in such a respect that it sounds poetic connoting the art of engaging
the demographic. This story-telling type of narration will incorporate the
entertainment aspect of the documentary that will in doubtfully attract the
modern target audience. This ties in with Blumler and Katz’s Uses &
Gratification theory because audiences use the media for a particular purpose.
They believe there are main functions, these consist of concepts such as:
Entertainment, Education and information. These functions provided for the
target audience are all pursued by our documentary. The reason behind
incorporating so many elements is to attract a wide demographic and spark
interests into the audience.
Not only that but our documentary
is a sporting one as well due to the footage of football scenes, which would
appeal to a certain target audience of football fans. Along with this, it is
also factual based providing information for the demographic to be intrigued.
I think it will be challenging to
create a documentary on this sport history type subject because it is just
getting the right footage for the hooligans, tribes and to find any good
archived footage. Also our idea is very creative so it will be hard to get the
documentary edited perfect to how we have planned it to be, so we require the
best of our editing skills for this task too.
This was created by myself and Joe contributed.
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