Joe

Joe

I asked Joe to talk about his passion for football as for as long as I’ve known him I know about his love for football and Arsenal.

I decided on Joe, because I know that asking him to talk about his memories on football would show good memories and emotions on his face. He talks about how he first got into it and where he has come with it, and all the way through the film he looks and seems happy.

I did plan to film this outside, so I could film him playing football. But the week I was able to film him, the weather was not suitable. So instead we filmed it in his bedroom. This tuned out to be a better location as I was able to film his surroundings that were covered in football memorabilia. He was also able to refer to subjects around him.

As he is a shy person I had to ask Joe a few questions to get him to talk, but once he answered them he would talk about more.

I like how the ‘Joe’ film turned out as he talks about the sites that his memories are from. By watching it, the viewer can tell just by how he speaks about it and by how he looks, how much football means to him and makes him feel good.

Joe Transcript

Joe Transcript

I’ve always liked football just not as much as recently. Last 4 years or so. Yeah I used to play when I was younger, but not properly, I never played as much. And I stopped playing then. I used to have little kick abouts from time to time with friends but it wasn’t until I was 16 that I finally joined a team. I played right back as well I was a defender. But yeah, left that team then because it was under 16’s. Left school as well and went into sport recreation. Went met a few boys who were on a team, asked me to come join their team, which I did. And I finished top scorer for them on the 1^st season. Even got a trophy over there, next to the television.

Yeah, and it was fun playing with 11 a side with them again being back out there, having a laugh but it comes to a point where I’ve had enough of it because they could never get a full team. They were really unorganised. They weren’t very good either. So Then I had a lot of injuries as well that season. Damaged ankle ligaments, torn a muscle in my knee, torn a muscle in my thigh. So I took a year out to recover.

And then my mate phoned me up one day asking if I wanted to come play for Llanrumney. So I did. Phoned me up 45 minutes before kick off, I was still in bed, but I went down and it was fun. Scored a hat trick and we won 4 – 2. On my first time. So I played for them the whole of the season, and finished up top goal scorer again.

And this is my second season with them and we are much better than last season. We got to the quarterfinals in one of the caps, unfortunately lost 5-3. I think it was a close game. Against a team 2 divisions above us, which isn’t bad.

[When asked about why he supports Arsenal]

Ah that’s weird I really don’t know why. Because my dad supports Man United, my 3 brothers support Man United, my mum supports Liverpool and my 2 sisters support Liverpool. And I’m just in the middle with Arsenal. And I don’t know how it all came about. It was when I started to take note of football more. When you’re little you only know a couple of teams really, you don’t really watch football, you just support who your parents supported. But as you grow older you start to learn more about football and I was just always attracted to Arsenal. And over the years it’s become a bit of an obsession but I love it all the same.