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set up with growth of NFL in UK (use Wembley clips)

follow husband and wife duo who set up this club and want to grow the sport in another direction (womens AF)

Recruitment day as the climax/ the time we are aiming for to recruit more players

Final being him now having his full squad and getting ready for the season

interviews

Warren and Jackie
Tara plus 2 other players

Other elements
the struggle for funding and getting a new head coach

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Notes from Meeting with Warren Smart. Chairman, founder, and head coach at Wembley Stallions AFC

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Notes from Meeting with Warren Smart. Chairman, founder, and head coach at Wembley Stallions AFC

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From 3rd November to 21st December indoor training on Wednesdays

5th November open day – academy and women

19th November senior open day

Great Britain’s second-ranked team reached the world cup women’s

Currently 150 players

LPOSA Hussain close ha1 3ql

Ealing Trailfinders ground for training

Three challenges

1. Recruitment/turnover

2. Maintain the club to serve a community

3. Elite development

The national league split geographically plays 10 games – senior (middle tier)

Women’s conference of 6 play home and away- only 19 teams in the whole country
Women currently play a 7 a-side team- currently have 16
Aim to have 30 registered to play 9 a side

Currently one of the top 5 teams in the country
GB players go through a trial-based system

Established- December 2013

Wembley stallions- billy the stallion

Search Wembley NFL stallions come up

Warren use to work in TV and film so is really on board with the idea and wants to give me full access to the club as well as archive footage

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I really want to follow the story of the women's team and their successful team GB players. I also want to show themes of the struggles the club face with recruitment (coaches and players)

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My original idea was to look at how NFL UK has helped increase participation and the overall quality of American football being played in the UK. I have clips from the first NFL game this season at Spurs as well as getting footage at the Wembley game in two weeks. I would try and interview someone who works at NFL UK but not sure how this idea would be shown.

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Our Womens Team are back at training and will play 'Contact football' in the BAFA National Women's Football League (NWFL) Div 1 South.

If you're new to American Football , no worries newcomers can join at any time. Contact recruitment@wembleystallions.com for online registration.

2022 NWFL Schedule

May 21 @ Birmingham - Did not attend
June 11 @ Hertfordshire (0-2)
June 25 @ HOME (1-1)
July 16 @ Kent (1-1)

Finished 2-4

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Wembley Stallions - American Football Team

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Our Womens Team are back at training and will play 'Contact football' in the BAFA National Women's Football League (NWFL) Div 1 South. If you're new to American Football , no worries newcomers can join at any time. Contact recruitment@wembleystallions.com for online registration.

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Questions for meeting with Warren and Jackie 

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Questions for meeting with Warren and Jackie 

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1. Have you got any archive pictures of the women's team? (when it first started for example)
2. Are you both happy with being interviewed?
3. Times for Wednesday training and the recruitment days?
4. Any idea who else would be a good interviewee? looking for about 3
5. Will you be having any potential interviews or meeting for a new women's head coach as I would like to film that as a micro theme?
6. Aim is to get a nine-a-side team. how many do you play for the men's?
7. What were the three top teams you mentioned before?

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The Stallions Women are a successful, friendly team who train and compete to better themselves as individuals and each other as a unit. Training is every Saturday 12-2pm and Wednesday 7-9pm , come down and try it out! Pre-registered athletes only due to the current restrictions.

Competitive Women's American Football is the fastest growing area within American football in the UK. The Wembley Stallions are keen to offer American football for women and Head Coach, would be happy to hear from anyone wishing to try out the sport.

We currently compete in the BAFA National Women's Football League (NWFL) which is the national competition for women's tackle football. It is run as a series of tournaments from April and culminates in a championship tournament in August.

Our Womens Team will return to training and will play 'Contact football' in the BAFA National Women's Football League (NWFL) Div 1 South. Until then to keep updated with off-season news and activity in the team sign up below.

If you're new to American Football, no worries we get a lot of people who have never played before. Contact recruitment@wembleystallions.com for online registration, or complete the form below.

All are welcome

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The Stallions Women are a successful, friendly team who train and compete to better themselves as individuals and each other as a unit. Training is every Saturday 12-2pm and Wednesday 7-9pm , come down and try it out! Pre-registered athletes only due to the current restrictions.

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Who are you and what is your role in the club?

When and why was the club set up?

What were your initial goals for the club?

How have they changed now 10 seasons on?

Within the club what are the main struggles and issues you face?

What is the most rewarding aspect?

When was the women’s team established?

How has the women’s team grown since then?

What are you dreams for this team?

How much potential do you see in this team?

What needs to be done by governing bodies to help the increase of participation?

Why should people get involved with american football as a whole?

Why should people get involved with your club, with Wembley Stallions?

Where do you go from here?

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Notes from meeting 2 with Warren and Jackie

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Notes from meeting 2 with Warren and Jackie

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Tamarra- young mum with a men’s player
Tara- GB
Delphine- 17 young player

7-9 wednesday at Ealing

9-1 LPOSA

Linking with universities

Birmingham lions number 1
London warriors
East kilbear pirates

Tonye.dokubo- AF coordinator for the BUCS
86 women in universities on mixed teams
@bucs.org.uk

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The two main interviews have been completed as well as footage from a training day and a recruitment day have been filmed. Just the interviews with players and possibly another two sessions to film.

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Interviews with a new head coach didn't happen during my filming period, therefore, were not something I was able to access.

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These are the notes I have made from the rough cut feedback.
Notes. (X means completed)

1. Black background white text graphic X

2. Shot of Warren's badge more still X

3. More upbeat music X

4. Name tag warren when we first see him instead X

5. Bring Jackie in under actuality shot with key point name tag in footage X

6. Blend interview with b-roll better X

7. Avoid the dissolves X

8. Can take away the question but not on money struggles and women's question X

9. 10:47 sort audio drop X

10. More shots of the girls before Sam's interview X

11. Reframe Sam interview, less headroom X

12. Graphic for the trial day before warren talks about the pitch X

13. No single shot cutaways X

14. Shot of girls jogging, don't include the reframe/zoom X

15. 18:50 black frame remove X

16. Ending, graphic? X

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Two player interviews have been filmed. I would have liked to have gotten 3 however that was not possible due to people putting themselves forward. I would also have liked to get the interview with Tam at a different location but due to logistics and Tam having a young family it just was not possible.

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This was my final filming day. I completed another interview with Tam. A third was not possible due to volunteers. I captured as much as possible as this is the peak of my story.

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Completed the two main interviews with Warren and Jackie as well as shots of the container discussing equipment.

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I went to another gym session at Ealing. I completed an Interview with one of the players Sam. I would have liked to have gotten another, but only male players were there. I also focused on filming Warren and Jackie together and Jackie in action.

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Filmed a training session in the gym. Lots of shots of the women in action as well as Jackie and Warren

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Filmed the first rookie day with the girls and under 19s team. The day went well however I would have liked to get an interview with one of the players, however, due to weather and timing, this was not possible today. I will do this at another gym session or rookie day.

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1. Sort audio X

2. Music under graphic and trial up until the chat. X

3. Sort jump cuts X

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Using the Gibbs reflective cycle I will reflect on the process of filming and editing Respect All,  Fear None. This will follow the six stages of Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion, and Action plan.

During FB666 I planned, organised, filmed, and edited my own documentary on an American football team based in Wembley. I focused on the husband and wife duo of Warren and Jackie and their goals for their women's team.

It was a process I really enjoyed and took valuable lessons from. I learnt how to work with new people and organise a more extensive project. I was able to arrange meetings to establish ideas and a route we would go down with the film. Filming and editing were something I hadn’t done a lot before. I hadn’t used the cameras before this process so I had to learn quickly. I feel like I did this well. I also hadn’t edited anything to that length before and I learnt a lot whilst editing. Filming and editing were two things I didn't think I enjoyed before making this documentary, however, I feel this has changed and I have found I enjoyed the process as well as developed my skills greatly.

The main thing that went well during this process was my two main interviews with Jackie and Warren as I was able to get a lot of content from these interviews that provided me with a range of angles for the documentary. Filming them first was also useful as I was able to film gym sessions and rookie days accordingly to match what I wanted to use from the interview. Also, the number of filming days that I had access to was very helpful as I could constantly review footage and start the editing process and see what I needed to film next time to fill in any gaps. Something that didn’t go as well was I would film and cut the clip off too quickly which would mean sometimes I miss something that could be useful or the clip wouldn't be long enough for a still or would not have proper entry and exit points for transitions. I did do this towards the end of my filming process as I began to notice when reviewing footage that this was needed.

If I was to repeat this process there are a few things that I would do differently. I would film clips for longer. I would also use the archive footage of the women however there was trouble getting this and more time was needed. I also would get another interview with one of the players and ask about Warren and Jackie's role at the club and how important they are however due to filming days and there not always being a lot of women at some sessions this, unfortunately, didn’t happen.

Overall I am very happy that we are able to film a documentary before we film one for our dissertation as it was a real eye-opener into how the process works and allowed me to make mistakes and errors that I will not make next time. I am also proud of myself for what I put together considering I had not filmed or edited anything like this before.

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This is part of the contract all players, guardians, volunteers and coaches at Wembley Stallions need to sign. This includes marketing, publicity and PR which covers my filming. Everyone at the club has signed this, and no one has opted out of filming rights. Warren also made everyone aware of the documentary filming and no one said they were not ok to be included in the film.