Documentaries On Athletes

For my first project, I am going to do a documentary on a college basketball player which will document his daily routines on being a student-athlete.  Most, if not all people only see the games being played and not the "behind the scene" work that goes into the hard work of an individual who is an athlete.  For my research, I am going to find articles and documentaries on athletes, and also information on how to make a successful documentary video.

Searching for some examples about documentary films and how it can help me while making my documentary film, I went onto IUSB's website to look for scholarly journals at which I searched for "Sports Documentary."  I found an article called, "Height of Passion: A Film-Maker's Observation" and it explains the difficulty of making sports films because the focus isn't to attract sports fanatics, but to try and get the non-sports lovers to watch such documentary films on sports.

Hay, Rod. "Height of Passion: A Film-Maker's Observation." Communication & Mass Media Complete. 136 (2003): 182-184. Web.

Thoughts

For this class, I have been thinking about doing a few things for my projects.  I am interested in doing commercials of pretty much anything.  I don't have a particular idea of what kind of commercial I want to do but I have done one before for another class and it was fun to do.  Also, I was thinking about doing a short documentary of a basketball player at IUSB and to video tape "behind the scenes" of the life of a basketball player which most people don't know about.  Interviews are another thing that I am interested in.  I like to edit video and I like to use iMovie and I would like to do more stuff with after effects.  I have 3 videos that I have made for other classes that are on YouTube that I have uploaded.  If you would like to check them out, go to www.YouTube.com/kheatherly34 and they are called: "IUSB Mens Basketball Pre-Season" "Kyle's Project T336" and "Shane_Steven".  My first after effect project is also on my YouTube page which is called HeatherlyProject2.