Project soccer

Report of the project work days

On the first day each group got two Indian pupils, so our group consisted of 6 people – Christian, Jan, Sören, Fynn, Gaurav and Nishant. After being told what rules are given for those three days, each group went to their room and started to do the project working. We started to plan how we create the video we wanted to present at Wednesday evening, which already took a long time. After two hours we thought we were finished and started a table soccer tournament. The match plan and the table are here: 

While playing our tournament, we noticed that we just have not enough scenes, so the video would be too short. So, after the tournament, we went on planning the following days and thought of which famous scenes we could enact. After writing the daily report, the first day was finished.

On the second day we met at 8:00 am at school and went to the sports hall, where we put our clothes and shoes and the laptop in the conference room. We had more than 15 jersey kits there. We started the first scene – it was the second goal of Helmut Rahn in the 1954 world cup final. We thought of which players are important for the video, then allocated everyone to his role and started to enact this maybe most important event in German football history. After some bad attempts we had a very good one which we wanted to put in the final video. So we went back to the conference room and suited other jersey kits for the next scene – which was the most controversial goal in football history in the 1966 world cup final, scored by Geoff Hurst. We decided to make this scene into two, the first would be the cross and the second the attempt on the goal. Again we had many bad attempts, but we also made a good one for both scenes. The third scene was the goal of Gerd Müller in the 1974 world cup final. Just like the two scenes before, we had bad attempts and good attempts, and finally decided while suiting the clothes for the next scene which attempt should be presented in the final video. The last scene of the day was the penalty kick of Andreas Brehme in the 1990 world cup final. We worked like we did the scenes before and finally just had to write the daily report to finish the day – almost. Because at home Jan cut everything together we did so far, that took a long time.

The third day was like the second one, just with other scenes. First we enacted the goal of Fabio Grosso in the semifinal of the 2006 world cup, then the goal just one minute later in the same game by Alessandro del Piero. Both scenes took a very long time until we had a good attempt. The next scene was the second goal of Mario Balotelli in the semifinal of the 2012 European cup and his famous celebration. We did this already in the afternoon; also we did a little addition for the scene of 1966. After finishing our work on the sports field we were driven home and Jan cut the video material together, inserted the original scenes and the audio tracks.

Here are some impressions of our work on Tuesday and Wednesday: