2. Type Of Documentary
This is a mixed documentary. The documentary includes interviews, a narrator, archive footage and real life
observational footage of football hooligans. The documentary includes footage of different football hooligans’
typical daily life.
3. Themes
The main theme in the documentary is football violence. However, much of the football violence comes from
arranging the meet – ups through social media. The hooligans will arrange their meet ups before the match day on
a social media group chat such as Facebook. Once arranged, the fans will usually head down to the location of the
game, watch the match and then attend the arranged scrap between each teams hooligans.
Clothing is another theme, during the documentary a hooligan explains how the clothes they wear relate to
football hooliganism, its easy to identify who and what makes a football hooligan through the clothes they decide
to wear. They all take clothing very seriously, all want to pick out expensive and a certain type of clothing which
represents them as a hooligan.
4. Narrative Structure
• The narrative is a non-linear. The narrative is obviously based around football hooliganism in the current world of
football.
• Throughout the documentary the camera follows the lives of some of the most well known football bandits and
hooligans around. The scenes show the hooligans during fights, as well as planning meet ups and talking about
past experiences with football hooligans of other football teams.
• The narrative also includes footage of the families of some hooligans who have a different point of view of
football hooliganism and contrasts highly to the way hooligans look at football violence, etc.
5. Camerawork
• Several different shots are used throughout the documentary, the general shots that are used regularly are
medium close ups, close ups, and medium shots for interviews. Long shots and POV shots are also used regularly
for archive and observational footage of the hooliganism and the footage where the camera follows the bandit
walking towards the stadium in preparation for the fight.
• Establishing shots are also used at times, one is used to show the stadium and location.
6. Mise-en-Scene
• Clothes are a big theme throughout the documentary, one scene is of two hooligans shopping for clothing
which represents their lifestyle and their hooliganism, the mise- en -scene obviously relates to a big theme
of the documentary in clothing.
• The interviews take place in natural locations, typically in the homes of the interviewee’s.
• Archive footage of football violence and boxing footage – which is a smaller theme of the documentary as a
few interviewee’s relate themselves to boxing.
7. Sound
• The narrator throughout the documentary is a male speaking standard English.
• The narrator is used throughout to guide the viewers. He introduces scenes which aren’t obvious to the
viewers and makes the documentary more understanding.
• Diegetic dialogue is used throughout the documentary of the interviewee’s.
8. Editing
• The editing is used to make the footage look smooth, straight cuts are used regularly as they are
conventional. Jump cuts are hidden by used certain transitions at times and including interviews when the
shot moves from one to another.
• A small amount of archive footage is also used, which just shows previous fights which the interviewee’s
have been involved in before.
• Graphics are edited into the documentary, specifically towards the end.
9. Archive Material
As mentioned, only a small amount of archive material is used. This is used just for showing the scenes of
previous fights between the interviewee’s and other football hooligans.
Footage of the police on horses and their involvement with football violence is also used, which isn’t live
footage, however not too old and still an example of archive footage used.
10. Graphics
• The name of the interviewee is put on the screen during the interview.
• Graphics are also used at the end of the documentary where they use an image, and write a short sentence
saying where/what some interviewee’s are now doing after this documentary.
