Tennis Documentary

 Tennis Documentary

By Dylan Grodner, Starring Nicole Dgani



    Nicole and I are both very good friends and we wanted to work on a film together. Turns out, although we are very good friends, we didn't know each other's favorite hobby. It ended up taking some time to think of what we like to do and what we could make a film on. After thinking about it we chose Nicole's favorite thing to do, tennis. It really didn't take much planning besides coming up with questions because they were all things Nicole could answer on the spot which is why we didn't focus too much on a script. Although there was not much planning, there were some questions asked that even Nicole hadn't thought about. When asked about her inspiration for tennis, she first answered "I don't know. I don't think I have one". Once she thought about it more though, she came to the conclusion that it is between playing with her friends, her father pushing her to play and try a new sport, her siblings all playing tennis, her coaches giving her advice on how to get better, and lastly her overall love for the game. This is a sport that Nicole explains she's begun to love over these past two years of playing. Once we started videoing Nicole, we started off with the A-Roll portion of her talking. Later, she videod herself playing tennis at one of her practices as the B-Roll. I think the quality of the B-Roll came out alright but the overall happiness and energy in Nicole's voice when talking about her love for the sport makes up for it. She is so engaging when she talks because she always talks with a smile and sounds so happy talking about playing that it almost makes the viewer want to try to play a match of tennis. Overall, I think this film ended up coming out very well. Although there were struggles along the way, we perceived and made it into a very fun film to watch.

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