A Promo Film for the Nike-Backed Super 5 League
Film and Photography for Sports Leagues and Brands
This is a sixty second promo film I shot and edited for the Super 5 League, the five a side league in Hackney for women and non binary players of all levels. The league was founded in 2017 and was named FA Grassroots League of the Year for 2019/20, and in 2020 it worked with Nike, Pro:Direct and SEASON zine on a limited run of fifty shirts to get itself through the pandemic.
I filmed it and cut it myself, which is worth saying because it is unusual at this level. Most grassroots leagues get footage from one person and an edit from another, and what comes back is a highlights reel with a track on it. Doing both means the decisions hold: what gets held on, what gets cut, what is left out entirely. The two photographs underneath are from my work with Goal Diggers FC, one of the Hackney clubs in the same scene.
Shooting stills and motion on the same job sounds efficient and mostly is not. They want opposite things. A photograph wants the peak of a movement and a shot wants the whole of it, and you cannot chase both in the same minute. So I split the session rather than the frame: a block for motion, a block for stills, and neither gets compromised to feed the other.
More football: Goal Diggers FC in Hackney, grassroots girls' football with APYFC, and the Nike x Rebel Girls day. See commissions for league and brand work, or the wider sports photography portfolio.
If you run a league, a club or a campaign and need a film and a set of stills from the same day, get in touch.