Category: FC United

We’re now finishing off the mini-films and biopics; here’s a selection:

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the rest of our finished films by clicking here.

 

Having filmed our material Jim and Alex are now showing us how to edit using Moviemaker, it’s a really simple programme and we are getting some good results. Chuks our coach is also learning how to edit.

 

Framing a shot is very important and here’s Dom getting a little guidance from Alex. I think they are going for a mid-shot.

 This is Jack as Camera Operator and Jake as Director checking a shot.

Some people’s films are very personal, about how they got into football, often through the interest of their Dad or Uncle or someone like that, whilst others are about the skills. This is a long shot of a long shot.

 

It snowed this week so of course we had to film a snowball fight!

Look how professional Juppy is being protecting the sound equipment!

But we did get some real work done too. Here you can see the film crew – Sound Operator, Camera Operator and Director as well as Jacob and Zak being interviewed.

Work on the mini films starts in earnest. Each person having written their own piece, they then had to work in small teams to become film crews for each other’s’ pieces. The roles in our film crew are: Camera Operator, Sound Operator and Director – as well as the ‘talent’, of course, in front of camera; some people made natural Directors.

Alex Lawler joined Jim as our other artist on the project. Alex is an ex footballer and now an actor and filmmaker, he was in ‘Mike Bassett: England Manager’, lucky we had already said it was one of our favourite football films!

 

A physical team bonding event… gave us the opportunity to work off all the food from the party the day before! Here’s Jake and Zak leading the way.

Here’s the team lifting up Paul and Chucks the coaches…careful not to drop them!

We even all survived the climbing and high ropes work – easy!

 

The session was on the same day as the Christmas party and everyone was sporting very tasteful seasonal attire!

Writing storyboards for individual mini films was a chance for the group to put the new film making skills into practice. Everyone is making a one minute film, introducing ourselves and saying something about why football is important to us…..but first the Christmas buffet!