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
2)
There’s
Only One Barry Fry
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.
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