The sports industry in recent years has witnessed a rise in sports documentaries. The video of Max Verstappen’s Formula 1 car being repaired in Hungary received 3.2 million views on YouTube. Why did 3.2 million viewers see a Sports documentary about a formula 1 car being fixed? The answer, however, is anything but straightforward, and our Pandora’s Box for understanding the world of sports documentaries is a simple YouTube video.
The Thrilling Aspect of Sports Documentaries
Sports brands are vying for the attention of their fans in a screen-swiping world where everybody perceives everything in extremes. All sports fans follow their teams on Instagram and decorate their rooms with posters of their favorite players and teams. This unwavering passion, nevertheless, has always been a one-sided romance. Sports teams want their supporters to be involved with them consistently. Buying new merch and front-row seats for the game is now a relic of the past. To radically alter the dynamics of engagement, the sports industry has built a tiny window through which fans can peek into professional action.
Football clubs have permitted the use of documentary cameras in the dressing rooms, on the training fields, and in the manager’s offices. Fans receive a documentary production of the season with a closer look after each season, allowing them to share in the tension, decisions, heartbreaks, and victories of their favorite players. Sports documentaries on teams like Manchester City, Juventus, and Bayern Munich have been made available. An eight-part documentary series on cricket showed Australia’s terrible situation following the ball-tampering event in 2018 and their recovery from the scandal.
Sports teams want their supporters to experience the rush, feel what players feel when their hearts are broken, and be in the thick of the action. By introducing cameras, the sports industry is keeping its followers interested in their production and content. When a team pulls off a miracle, fans are curious to hear motivational talk delivered by the manager, collaboration of players, tough decisions, and victory against all odds. Sports documentaries are works of cinematic art; on screens, the protagonists and antagonists are on the playing field, and supporters don’t need a fictional story to root for their heroes. Sports documentaries draw viewers’ attention since everything that happens is real. The excellence of athletics, film production and editing have come together in these documentaries.
Fans wanted to experience the anxiety, desperation, and tragedy that was about to unfold when Max Verstappen’s car broke 20 minutes before the start of the race. They especially wanted to learn how the engineers coordinated those 20 minutes to repair the car. The ten-minute documentary offered viewers a transparent look at the scenarios, decisions that were made, and radio communication inside the Red Bull crew. For the audience, the video’s creation and editing changed the playing field.
Scripted drama is fantastic, and we have all experienced nibbling on popcorn while completely engrossed in the plot, but unscripted drama also makes us hurl our popcorn buckets and bite our nails, which is a quality of cinema that the sports industry greatly relies on.