Tweeting Wednesday football players

I've been trying to think of other people we could interview and I think if we could get a football player saying something that would be good. I'm not too sure how to contact the players but I know that a lot of people including footballers are on Twitter so I found out who plays for Sheffield Weds and then searched for them on Twitter I actually found a few of them so I sent them all a tweet asking if they had any thoughts on Tango.

After a while one of them tweeted back to me, see below:

I'm really happy that I got one tweet and even though it's not an interview it will be good to have the comment come up on the screen during the documentary when we have the montage which will have quotes etc in it as well.

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1. 1. Feb 19Hannah Bushnell ‏@HannahMB87

      @JohnsonReda Hi I'm a student doing a documentary on Sheffield Weds fan Tango & was wondering if you'd mind telling us your thoughts on him?

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   Feb 26Reda JOHNSON ‏@JohnsonReda

   @HannahMB87 tango is the 12 man .he is the wednesday spirit.he is a model for all weds fans.coming to every game and singing.he is weds legd

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First shoot - Saturday 23/2 at football ground

We started our first bit of filming on Saturday as that's when the first match was - kick off at 3pm Hillsborough. Me and Luke met Paul and Jacob who went down earlier to film the first walking sequence of the poetic documentary which involved Tango walking down the road towards the Hillsborough stadium (not seeing his face) and then him stopping and turning to look up at the Sheffield Weds Emblem on the front of the ground.

Once we'd all met up firstly we tested the sound equipment again - lapels, rifle so we wouldn't be messing about once we got to Tango. We got a few long shots of the stadium from the view of the park quickly and then made our way to the Hillsborough club where Tango usually drinks before the match starts. Luckily one of the people in charge allowed us to go to a function room upstairs where it was quiet so we could interview Tango, me and Paul both asked the questions that I had previously come up with.




Once we'd finished the interview we went our separate ways - Paul made his way to the stop of a nearby hill as he knew it well and said he could gets some shots of the crowd going in and out of the stadium and also try and capture some sounds and atmos of the crowd.

Me, Luke and Jacob had a quick lunch and then made our way inside the stadium early to see if we could get any pictures of Tango coming in and taking his top off but unfortunately he arrived quite late. During the match we tried to take pictures of him and even moved seats to get closer but with the cameras we were using we couldn't really get any decent, clear images and Tango also seemed to be having a quiet day which was a bit disappointing but we will try again next week. We also tried to capture some sound of the crowds while the match was going on using the small flip cams.
After the match we met up with Paul who said filming went OK and he managed to film the people going in, although it wasn't quite the crowds he hoped as people seemed to be going in in dribs and drabs.

Treatment

Working title: TANGO

Length: 2 minutes and 5-10 minutes

Format: Documentary

Hook or tag line: There’s Only One Tango Man

Short synopsis (25-50 words):

What is the film about?

The film is centred on Tango Man (Paul Gregory) a well known Sheffield Wednesday fan (who takes his top off) and who the fans share mixed opinions of. The 2 minute aims to show what Tango is most known for – being rowdy at football matches and then in the 10 minute we hope to explore this character deeper and delve into the man behind the big persona and belly and maybe show that he is not just a noisy football hooligan as some people might perceive him as.

Mid-Length synopsis/outline (250 words):

What is the core subject matter of your film? How will the story unfold? What are the themes/issues/arguments you are trying to uncover? Who are the key contributors? What makes them interesting? What will we learn about them? Use visual language the aim is to bring the story alive and the characters off the page.

The film is going to be about Tango who is an avid supporter of Sheffield Wednesday football club and who has built up quite a name for himself over the last 2 decades for his antics at the matches. It all started in the 90’s when he began to take his top off at every match and because of his bald head (similar to that of the advert) was then given the name Tango Man and this then he has become a bit of a celebrity due to his boisterous behaviour at matches of which he never misses a game. The story will begin a bit ambiguously by showing a man walking down the street of whom we know nothing about he will then stop and the camera will pan up to reveal behind him the Sheffield Wednesday emblem on the stadium from this it will then cut to a fast pace montage showing what he gets up to on match days with quotes/snippets from newspapers about him being banned etc and maybe sound bites over the top of fans/mates opinions of him it will then end with an empty stadium with the sounds of Tango and the crowd slowly dying away over the top. The 10 minute film will then observe him outside football, his home life – what he does for a living, what kind of a person is he when he’s not at games, what he thinks about himself and the bad press he gets. I also want to include as many different interviews and opinions as possible on him from different sources including friends, fans, rival fans, family, people who work at SWFC (stewards, players etc) basically as many views and people as we can get. From the research I’ve done I feel that are very split opinions on this man so I would like to find out for myself (after seeing him myself at football matches) what is he really like is he just a very passionate man who gets carried away or he is someone looking to cause trouble and grab attention.

Analysis of approach (500 words):

How will you make this film? What will it look and sound like? What is its style? What are the techniques used? What works were inspirational to the film? What works does it resemble? What is its mood? Its ambience?  Demonstrate enthusiasm and a distinctive visual/aural voice here. Include references to TWO films that you have watched as research.

I want to really get involved with this film in terms of really getting stuck in and getting into the thick of it – I want to show as many different scenarios as I can to really build up a true and whole picture of Tango. This will mean going to matches, interviewing him and anyone else that may have an opinion or thought, going to his home town of Wolverhampton and trying to find out as much about him as possible and as far as he will let us.

I want it to be fun and lively to represent what his character is with lots of sounds of the crowds and ambient noises and also the band that also play at every match. I want the 2 minute poetic film to have contrasts so it starts relatively slow and then builds up to the montage of action and also use split screens to emphasise the energy of this man and also of football matches themselves. I think the 10 minute film may be a bit calmer as we want to show the other side of the character – a hard working man that will probably lead quite a normal life away from the football games. I still want it to be quite pacey though so when he’s being interviewed it might cut to him at a football match or doing something else and also inter-cut with the views of other people so there isn’t just a long interview. The other week I was watching The Shooting Gallery on Channel 4 which shows a few short documentaries about a different subject each week and I happened to catch one about sport and in it was a short documentary called The Smell of Football (Daniel Musty) about a very passionate and famous fan in Portsmouth and I like the way it was set out as firstly they showed him in the library as his normal day job is a librarian, it then shows his home with all his Portsmouth memorabilia that’s fills the room and then he starts to get ready into his very flamboyant outfit which includes a wig, fakes tattoos, face and much more – which is one of the main reasons he gets quite a lot of attention; the documentary then ends with him at the football stadium. I also quite like the mood of the film because the fan is talking about different elements of being a fan and his passionate throughout the whole film even over the shots of him celebrating (in his crazy outfit) in the crowd which is quite a contrast to his calm voice over the top. I think this film will be similar to ours in the way that we too want to show his mad, passionate side but also show beneath there is a very calm, rational and relatively normal man. There’s Only One Barry Fry is a feature length documentary that follows Barry Fry and his time as Peterborough United’s manager. What I liked about this documentary is when it starts there’s a shot of a door that says home team and then a light goes on and then you are in footballers dressing room but no one’s in it and there’s no sound just the footballers kits hanging there. Barry Fry’s voice then comes in over the top of different cutaways of the dressing room and it has quite a poetic feel about it as I like the use of lots of different cutaways to help build up an image of football and the narration over the top.

References:

1)     The Shooting Gallery

              http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-shooting-gallery/4od#3478423

2)     There’s Only One Barry Fry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMx6LDc4-Nw

Filmmaker biography (50-100 words) :

What kind of documentary maker or filmmaker are you? What are the themes in your work? How do you approach work? Do you have any awards?

I have not yet established myself as a documentary filmmaker yet but I like the idea of documenting people or a subject who are/that is maybe quite well-known and have a certain name for themselves or is perceived a certain way and then trying to give people a new or different perspective on that person/thing to what they already thought they knew. I think a good way to approach a documentary is to be open minded and try and include as many sources as possible to try and gain an all round view on something as it’s always interesting to hear different sides and opinions from all sorts of different people.

'There's Only One Barry Fry' (1997)

There's Only One Barry Fry is a fly on the wall documentary, with Sean Bean as voice over, that follows Barry Fry through the 1996-97 season at Peterborough Utd (Posh) after becoming the new manager of the team and also the new owner.
I think what makes this documentary so compelling and good to watch is the fact that Barry is such a large character, he is very open and frank about everything and certainly does not hide his emotions, especially in the dressing room.

I liked how they showed all aspects of his life, the game side - in the dressing room with the players, on the pitch, the business side of it - in the board room, making new signings and then at home with his family  I think this gave an all round view and you got to know all sides of him and how important football was to him and I think because of that it made him a very likeable person because even if he did make mistakes you could certainly see his passion and what he had sacrificed and personally put on the line to help the club.

They followed him through a season and they made each game Peterborough played such a big part of the documentary which I think really added to the tension for the audience with the way they showed it. The first thing they did was showed him in the dressing room before each game where he would normally be quite positive. Then when the game was in play they would focus on him at the touchline where he'd be shouting and swearing and enduring a roller-coaster of emotions as his club scored goals and let goals in. I liked how they used a lot of close ups of his face at this point because as part of the audience you really got a sense of what he was going through. They also used cross fades of his reactions throughout the match which again heightened the sense of emotion, and most of the time, the despair he felt. The music played a big part as well as they used opera music over the top of his close ups which enhanced the sense of dread and doom for Barry and his team, it also meant they didn't have to show them losing on the pitch because you could already gather this from the close up shots of his facial expressions and the music.

There was also much use of cutaways and establishing shots of the football ground inside and out and things around the football ground, for example during the build up to a match it kept cutting to a car park, which had a train line behind it, and each time they cut back to it the car park would be a little more full each time and there was always a train going past in the background.

They also seemed to make a not so interesting football ground and area look quite interesting with the range of cutaways because I live in Peterborough and it kind of showed me a whole different side or way of looking at it.




                            

Tango Man - Research

Paul Gregory  aka Tango Man – Research

•  This is what someone has wrote about him on the Myspace Tango Man fan page (the same info is also on other internet sites):

“He's big, this fan. His name is Tango Man. Sheffield Wednesday, England, look fondly on fan Paul Gregory who has come to be known as "The Tango Man". Paul first came to the club's attention during their triumphant march to winning the Rumbelow's Cup in 1991 when he stripped his shirt off to reveal his ample figure against Derby County in sub-zero temperatures. In 1993, on a trip to Crystal Palace, he took with him a large orange hand, the opposing Palace fans duly christened this half-naked, orange handed figure "Tango Man", the similarity to the character from a British TV commercial, being obvious. His devotion may appear extreme, risking everything from ridicule to hypothermia, but he loves his club, so anything goes - usually the shirt. Since then he has become a figurehead for a very, very noisy group of fans. In fact, Sheffield's finest was once accompanied in his strip act by another Wednesday devotee, a far slimmer version, who was automatically dubbed "Diet Tango-man". In fact, whole rows of topless men have been spotted at Sheffield Wednesday games”

Source - http://www.myspace.com/335961992 - Accessed 8/2/2013

                                                                                                                                        

·         Public quotes/opinions about Tango Man:

“What a twat!”

“What a legend!”

“About a million cliches rolled into one.”

“What an embarrasment he is to Sheffield Wednesday!! More than three thousand FANS braved the cold that day not only him. I’m sure if I was to take my top off and call myself after a soft drink I would be ejected from the ground for sure.”

“hes probably been going to the matches longer than you have been born to be fair love.

uto legend.”

Source - http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/miscellaneous/60581/the-football-snapshot-sheffield-wednesdays-tango-man-braves-the-cold.html - Accessed 8/2/2013

• I found this amusing someone drew a map of the Hillsborough ground layout and they even included where Tango sits in it:

                           

Source: http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/170913-stadium-plan-for-the-part-timers/ - Accessed 8/2/2013

•        Article:

 Sheffield Wednesday fan 'Wheenie' will miss Barnsley vs. Sheffield Wednesday

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffi...game-1-5178077

A DISABLED Sheffield Wednesday supporter will miss the Owls’ crunch derby game with Barnsley because his famous friend has been banned from the match.


Barnsley FC will not allow Paul Gregory - aka Tango man - into the stadium for Wednesday’s visit on Saturday, December 15.

That means wheelchair-bound Wednesdayite Alan Wheen, known to fellow Wednesdayites as Wheenie, is likely to miss the game, too, as Tango acts as his carer.

Mr Wheen, a diabetic who had his leg amputated by surgeons 12 months ago due to complications caused by his condition, relies on his mate to pick him up and take him to games.

But as Barnsley won’t allow Mr Gregory - who is famous for stripping to the waist at games - to gain entry to Oakwell it means Mr Wheen will have to miss out, too.


The 54-year-old, former pub landlord in the Hillsborough area who ran the Burgoyne Arms and Travellers Inn, has been left upset by Barnsley’s decision.

His wife Susan told The Star: “Paul has been a great mate since Alan lost his leg. He calls to pick him up for away games. 

“If Paul didn’t take him then he wouldn’t be able to go.”

Barnsley general manager and club director Don Rowing said: “I can confirm that the individual named as Tango has been banned from Oakwell. 

“We took this decision after considering our own experiences at previous games together with current intelligence we have received.”

But Mr Gregory, 50, a transport manager who lives in Wolverhampton, feels Barnsley have no reason to ban him.

He said: “Ok I do banter a bit with away fans, take Forest last week I was chanting at the Nottingham lads a bit and they did the same to me.

“I’m warmly welcomed everywhere I go - every where that is except Barnsley.

“I have never been arrested at Oakwell, nor have I been ejected from the ground. I can’t understand why they are banning me.

“It’s not just me they are punishing but Alan as well. There’s just no justification for it.”

Source: http://bbs.barnsleyfc.org.uk/showthread.php?178267-Sheffield-Wednesday-fan-Wheenie-will-miss-Barnsley-vs-Sheffield-Wednesday – Accessed 8/2/2013

Final Idea - Tango Man

People and Interviews I would like to include in both 2 and 10 minute documentaries:


Now we know Tango (Paul) is happy to take part in the documentary we have been looking at other things we would like to try and include to help build up a good view of Tango.

• Paul wants to ask the BBC Look North news presenter Harry Gration if he would like to be interviewed about his thoughts on Tango as we know he is a big sports fan and also a Sheffield Wednesday fan.

• Joe knows someone, Steve Lambarth, who he said is a big Sheffield Wednesday fan so it would be nice to get views on Tango from other Weds fans perspectives. I would also like to interview fans of other clubs to see what they think of him as I want to try and build up a non-bias opinion of him in the football world.

• I know that SWFC also have their own band that attend every week and they are also the England band so i would like to see if we could get an interview with them and maybe get us to play us some of the Wednesday songs that we can also use as background music.

• Football players would be another good avenue to go down, getting interviews or comments of what they think of their super fan. Also anyone else that works at the club - stewards, manager etc. 

Group meeting 2

Today me, Paul and Luke had a meeting (Joe and Jacob were in Berlin) to discuss what we needed to do next now that we had Paul's (Tango) consent. I decided the first thing we needed to do was firstly discuss what are intentions were with Tango, for example what we want to film of him, how we're going to approach the documentary - what we want to show and how and also the sort of things we want to ask him.
 I wanted to do this so we can contact him as soon as we can and inform him of what we're going to be doing and seeing how far we can go with him - what he will be comfortable with. Once we know this information we will be able to plan our 2 and 10 minute docs in greater detail because at the minute we don't know what we can and can't include.
Once we know Tango is happy with our idea I also want to find out what his match day routine is - how he gets here, where does he go, where does he sit etc and also does he ever come to Sheffield on non-match days.

I also discussed with Paul what I'd like him to ask the football club - if we can have permission to film and if not can we take still and record sound instead etc because having permission for this will also determine much of our plans for the documentaries. If they say no then we could then look at possibly asking other clubs that SWFC will play away for their permission - on previous post  have listed all home and away matches.

I've also asked Paul to try and get in contact with the SWFC band as this could be a good option for music in our film. I've found that they have a website for the England band but they originate from Sheffield Weds and also play at all of their matches too -  http://www.englandband.com/index.shtml.


The angle I want to approach this documentary with is I want to try and show an unknown perhaps nicer side to the infamous Tango man who is probably seen as a bit of a football hooligan and loud mouth who can make a nuisance of himself. While researching him I came across conflicting stories about him - some showing a more negative side with him swearing and being banned from matches (no reason really stated) and others more positive saying he has a disabled friend who Tango always takes to the matches and that he is more of a peacemaker than trouble maker - footage on YouTube posted by fan shows him trying to calm some friction between police and lary SW fans. If he will let us I think it was be interesting to find out about more of his personal side and the man behind the big belly, that he likes to get out at every match. I still want to show the side as most people will know him for but I want to contrast it with the other side.

My idea for the 2 minute poetic piece was to start off with an image of Tango (dressed normally) walking down a street and while this is happening there will be a voice over the top saying this is Paul Gregory and then carries on telling the audience a bit about him which could possibly random facts and info about him or maybe about what he does for a living (Transport Manager). The aim for the first 30 seconds or so is not to give anything away about the football side of Tango. After the voice over has told us a bit about Tango he is going to stop walking and look up and the camera will then pan up to show the Sheffield Wednesday stadium and a the voice over will then say something like this is Paul Gregory also known as Tango man and that will then go into a montage of him doing things that he is known for e.g. at the match chanting and shouting, taking his top off, newspaper article quotes about him, possibly still photos and then it will end on a shot of the Kop end at the football ground (where Tango sits) when it is empty and over the top there will be the sound of Tango singing and shouting at a match.

A good thing about filming Tango is from the pictures, videos and what I've seen and heard myself I know he will be quite a character and also that this will not just be him playing up to cameras because this is his personality anyway.

Things that could be included in documentaries:

• Interviews - Tango, friends, fans, someone/spokesperson from SWFC, a football player...
• Footage within and around the ground on match day
• Sounds within the ground - atmos, band
• Photos/stills
• Newspaper article quotes, headlines, pictures of Tango - copyright?
• Footage of Tango travelling to Sheffield - Supporters coach, train, drive?
• Footage within his home/home-town Wolverhampton (working, shopping, socialising, hobbies etc)

'The Smell Of Football' - Daniel Musty (2012)

I saw this short documentary on a programme called The Shooting Gallery which showcases a range of different documentaries each week and the week I watched it it just happened to be about sports and I watched 'The Smell of Football' which was about a Portsmouth super fan. It started with him in the library doing his job dressed in ordinary work clothes and then it shows him at home and all the Portsmouth memorabilia he has, he then transforms into his Portsmouth fan outfit and is shown on a match day - at the pub, going in to the match and during the match.

I like how they show the transformation from normal week day to weekend where he transforms in to this big colourful well-known character because you see him at work in a library and it is such a contrast to his weekend persona when he becomes the super fan. What I also like is how he is narrating all the way through and through this you find out he is always the super fan, it doesn't go away during the week, it doesn't depend what league there in, his live is following Portsmouth.

I felt that this piece fitted in to a poetic style of documentary because of this way it was filmed and it also didn't contain sync sound because he narrated over the top and there was also gentle music in the background  which built at certain points in the film.
There were lots of cutaway shots to help paint the picture of this man and his life - in the library there were close up shots of books, in his house there were close up shots of his memorabilia and then of his clothes when he was getting ready like his big blue and white (Portsmouth colours) clown shoes, putting his Portsmouth stick on tattoos on to his face and then at the match there were a range of different cutaways of things you see at a match like programme sellers, burger vans, people queuing, the football ground, rowdy fans etc.

These shots have given me a lot of inspiration for how I want our 2 minute to be filmed because I want to include loads of cutaway shots that help paint a picture of what Tango is like and also establish a context and tell a story. I also like the use of close ups as I think they are intimate and when you're trying to tell a story about someone you want it to be intimate so the audience can identify and really get a feel for this person.
I think this is a really effective way of getting a point across of how something is without saying what it is or explaining it, it's nice just to watch all the visuals and take it all in.

At the end there was a shot of him from behind walking away from the stadium after the match and even though it's quite simple I liked the way they built it up towards the match with all the fans and colours and things going on then at the end it had all stopped and everything was quiet again and he was just walking home to start his week and his ordinary job all over again - until next week that is.

I also noticed that they had used colour as well to give it this quite white/hazy-dream like quality and this was quite effective and for me also added to the poetic feel of it. To me it portrayed football being like something so great - it's like a dream to him and it's this precious, special event that happens every week. I guess you think of white being good or God-like and to this man football is everything it is probably like a religion to him.



This is what I found on the production teams blog who made the documentary, I really liked the shots so it's interesting to know what camera they shot on, also they mention capturing special moments which I think is really important and key in documentary, you've always got to be on the lookout for something unexpected.

Very big day for us today. We filmed the main parts of our documentary for Channel 4 which involved an early start getting ready with John before heading into Portsmouth for the pub sequence, Fratton build up and the football match. We shot the doc using the new Canon C300 which was a true dream to use. The image quality off this camera is incredible and it's small and light enough for us to get in the middle of the action.

The filming went really well. We got all the shots we were after including a few certain special moments which I don't think anyone could have predicted! The fans were great and Portsmouth even won the game 3 nil!

Source:

Millstream Productions [Internet] http://www.millstreamproductions.com/blog/2012/08/04/filming-our-channel-4-documentary - Accessed 6/2/2013

Production Information for next meeting

Paul informed me today that he has had a reply from someone who works at Sheffield Wednesday who said they have managed to track Paul Gregory (Tango) down at that he has agreed to be part of our documentary and she has also passed on his number to us which is great news so I've now come up with this list of things we need to start discussing when we next meet up and things we can be getting on with - I have posted it on our Facebook page so everyone can have a look and refer back to it. I have also listed some questions we could possibly ask him, along with it are Sheffield Weds fixtures for the next couple of months which I think is useful to know and some important dates for us.

Documentary – To Do

1.       Email Sheffield Weds thanking for tracking Paul (Tango) down and number also need to ask:

·         If we would be able to film him during a home match (just Paul, crowd and band)

·         If we could also film in the ground when empty

·         If can’t film during match can we record crowd atmos, band etc instead

·         Contacting another football ground to ask their permission e.g. Peterborough

2.       Discuss exactly what we potentially will require of Tango:

·         This includes what, how, when, where, why we want to film him so he needs to be clearly aware of the purpose of our film – his football fan persona and his outside persona.

·         This could include things like football life and home life – on the way to a match, at a home match (Saturday), at pub/friends, at home, at work etc.

·         Questions we intend to ask him for interviews – come up with list of questions as group.

·         Interviewing/asking questions about him to his friend in wheelchair and possibly other friends.

We need to establish most of this so we can pass on the info to Tango ASAP so he knows what to expect and to see if and what we have permission to do.

3.       Start to think about locations and shot lists for 2 min poetic doc – what shots we want to get and also what sounds we want to get e.g. establishing shots of empty ground, sound of crowd etc.

·         Paper work –  treatment, Contributor & subject research, contributor consents, location recce info & photos, shot lists, sound lists, schedule/shooting schedule, equipment list (what camera are we going to use, dolly, stills camera), risk assessments

4.       Getting in contact with the Sheffield weds/England band

Important Dates:

·         Tues 19^th Feb – Pitch and Treatment hand in

·         Mon 13^th March – 2 min Poetic Doc hand in

·         Mon 29^th April – 5-10 min Doc hand in

Interview Questions:

·         What made you become a Wednesday/Owls fan as you live in Wolverhampton?

·         How long have you been a Wednesday fan?

·         How do you feel about everyone (Owls/other football fans) knowing who you are?
d     How do you feel about the name 'Tango man' that the fans have given to you?

·         Do you like being quite a famous icon in the footballing world?

·         Would you say you’re a bit of an exhibitionist?

·         When did you start taking your top off and what made you do it and then continue doing it?

·         How do you think people perceive when they see you behaving the way you do – taking top off, images of you swearing etc?

·         Why do you think you have been banned from some matches?

·         Do you ever think they’ll come a time when you will calm down and maybe not take your top off anymore etc?

·         Do you not feel the cold when you take your top off?

·         There’s a video of you on YouTube trying to calm down a bit of friction between football fans and police at a game, would you say that’s a more accurate view of who you are and you’re more of a peacemaker than a trouble maker?

·         Have you ever been in with trouble with the police at a football match?

·         What has been the highlight of you time as a passionate fan?

·         What has been the worst time?

·         If football didn’t exist what do you think you’d be doing instead?

·         What is your view on fans that pick out footballers and abuse them? Have you ever done it?

·         When you’re there shouting at chanting things that might be seen as offensive are you taking it seriously or is it just football banter?

·         Have you lived in Wolverhampton all your life? If so why not support them?

·         Does football take over your life?

·         Have you got a family, if not do you think that’s to do with your passion for football?

·         What do you do for a living?

·         Do you think you’re a different person at home to what you are on a match day/at a match?

·         How would your friends and family describe you?

·         Does it bother you when people say or write negative things/articles about you?

·         Do you think people have got the wrong idea of you from what they see/hear at matches and what’s written about you?

·         What do you do when the football seasons over?

Sheffield Weds Fixtures:

Tues 19^th Feb – Birmingham Away

Sat 23^rd Feb – Crystal Palace Home

Sat 2^nd March – Notts Forest Home

Tues 5^th March – Watford away

Sat 9^th March – Leicester Away

Sat 16^th March – Cardiff Home

Sat 30^th March – Barnsley Home

Mon 1^st April – Bristol Away

Sat 6^th April – Blackburn Home

Tues 9^th April – Millwall Away

Sat 13^th April – Leeds Away

Tues 16^th April – Blackpool away

Bill Nichols - 6 Modes of Documentary

Expository Mode -  These documentaries tend to have a voice of God or narrator directing the audience, they tend to 'assume a logical argument' and tell the audience what is right so it leaves little room for an audience member to come to their own conclusion about what they're seeing. Nature documentaries and the news are very much based on this way.


Poetic Mode -  Poetic documentaries are more subjective and approach something from a more artistic and creative angle and try to find an inner or different truth from those documentaries that aim to show something as complete fact. They rely on things like colour, mood and tones, textures, sounds and rhythmic qualities.


Observational Mode -  Is best described as a 'window on the world' or 'fly on the wall', observational documentary is as it says simply observing or watching something or someone. People think that the best way to see something in it's truest form is to just watch it without getting involved or influencing anything. One well known convention of this type of documentary is use of handheld cameras which has a shaky quality to it and makes the footage look raw and like it has just happened - nothing has been staged. Direct Cinema and cinema Verite from the 1950/60's are prime examples of this type of documentary.


Participatory Mode -  Opposite to the observational style the participatory normally includes the director or filmmaker in the documentary and they will play quite an integral part by maybe following someone around, asking questions and almost become a part of the subjects life for the duration of the documentary. Rather than not influencing or getting involved with the subject they will directly engage with them/it.


Reflexive Mode -  This mode acknowledges how a documentary is made and that it is impossible for it to be an untouched truth so to speak because it gets affected by so many different processes e.g. camera and editing and so it accepts it and will even make these things known to the audience by actually having and showing them in the film itself. It admits to the audience this is not the truth but a reconstructed version of it. 


Performative Mode -  The filmmaker is deeply involved and this type of documentary is usually subjective the filmmaker and the film might depict their personal journey. It does not set out to preach truth or a perspective but acknowledges the emotional and subjective aspects. They might also be autobiographical films.