Assignment: Sporting Personalities
Create a short film about a famous sporting personality. Tell the story of their life, and their role in their sport.
Suggested techniques
You can do this using an on-screen presenter, or completely with voice-over, or even have the sports star narrate their own life. You could interview the subject in the style of a chat show.
Intersperse the presentation with still images and video if appropriate. You could do this as a studio presentation or lecture, and display the images on a screen behind the presenter, or else you can make the images go full-screen.
Add extra content on-screen by using text to complement what you're saying.
Add appropriate background music to create atmosphere, and ensure you have a striking title sequence.
For teachers: benefits to students
- This is likely to be a subject students are passionate about, and will engage well with.
- It gives students a perspective on history in sport, particularly if they choose an older person like Babe Ruth or Roger Bannister.
- Adding multimedia content enables the student to approach the subject in a richer way than just using written text and still images.
- Finding images and music to enhance the presentation requires detailed research.
- Providing narration builds confidence in speaking without needing to do it in front of an audience or camera.
- Creating a multimedia presentation helps develop presentational skills and requires the student to consider what information is best presented using the different media: spoken, written, or visual.
Suitability
- Ages 14+
- Suitable for groups
- Sports, current affairs, history