Striking goals – successful soccer scenes in film.

What makes good coverage of a soccer game scene? What makes a particular scene successful or unsuccessful? These are some of the questions I attempted to answer in my research on scenes of soccer games. My purpose was to attempt to find a definition of what successful coverage was and which films achieved this definition in part or full. Through looking into this research I realised it is something I would need to dedicate a lot more time into. I haven’t come to a concise conclusion because I believe the piece I produced for this assignment was only a very small section of a very large topic. There are many other films to be researched and a lot of other questions arose while I conducted my research. Do I need to narrow my research down to one genre? Should I research specifically into womens equality in soccer films? Does the research get effected whether it is based on a true story or not? And many other questions.

The outcome I came to in this research was that there are some conventions that were constant through a successful scene. A successful soccer game scene is one that shows more than just the goals and more than just faces of the players in a tight shot. The scene will show either how it feels to be in the audience watching the game or how it feels to be a player. The scene needs to involve at least a few shots of the whole bodies of players, that lasts for more than a couple of seconds.

My full research piece can be found here: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/saskia-kostic/2020/05/29/research-project-soccer-scenes/

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