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.