Over the past couple weeks, we have been getting everything in order to begin shooting. Last week we met Chris Cromartie, a 22 year old amateur boxer who trains at Wilmington Coastal Boxing. Chris gave us a tour of the gym, which he also manages, and filled us in on the recent history of it. Today we had a meeting with the coaches/gym owners and pitched our idea:
-Initially we thought we would be doing a documentary solely on Chris, but the coaches requested that we make the documentary more the gym than just him. We have no problem with it so, instead, we will be following multiple young, amateur boxers throughout the course of the semester. (Chris and the coaches are contacting the other boxers now to see who would be interested. I think they have 2 or 3 others who are already interested)
-As far as following the boxers, we will shoot several hours (on several occasions) of them training at the gym and sparing with fellow boxers.
-We also have a dates arranged to conduct sit-down interviews with the boxers and coaches. These interviews will be "planned to the T" with lighting styles that will accentuate a boxing equipment or posters behind the interviewees.
-Throughout the semester, we will be following the main subjects to their boxing events as well. Along with our footage, one of the coaches will be giving us footage from previous matches that the guys participated in (depending on the content this will be useful when it comes time for editing!).
-Towards the end of semester we will also be attending and filming one of the biggest events for the boxers which takes place during the Azalea Festival. (we will be editing by this point but we're hoping this footage could be a nice ending to the film)
-Aside from boxing footage we hope to have some sort of access to the subjects' lives outside of boxing so that we can have b-roll that appropriately fits over the interviews.
Since we have to have a completed product by the end of the semester, we plan to have 90% of our footage already shot by the end of March so that we have all of April to edit the film.
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