This weekend Ironside will be competing in Nationals, and potentially winning the Championship! I went and filmed their Regional tournament in Boston a few weekends ago and was impressed with how well they have been playing since Worlds in Italy in August. They won the Regional Title in a crushing win over GOAT (a team from Ontario and Toronto). Filming them at Regionals was awesome and will be great B-Roll for the documentary.
I have been going through footage and logging specific clips I will use later on, but there is just so much to sift through. I put together a brief teaser, which I will show in class, which could also serve as an intro (with some voiceover added in, probably).
I’m becoming a little overwhelmed with how I want the story to come together, just because there is so much footage to go through. Compressing more than a week of footage into ten minutes will be tricky. The story is in there, I know. But right now I feel a bit like a stone-smith looking at a boulder.
I will be using Premier for the entire post production process, and am learning some useful skills in my 2D animation class that could be applicable for this documentary as well. This is mostly After Effects stuff like simple animations to demonstrate concepts viewers may be unfamiliar with (like how the field is set up, how the players cut on the field, different terms, etc.).
