Editing and Sound/Music in Football Hooligan Films

Editing - Editing in football hooligan films tends to involve lots of fast cuts due to the sheer amount of action that is taking place, mainly in the fight scenes. These types of scenes within football hooligan films are fast paced to convey the true carnage that is happening within these fights and the complete unpredictability. This also is used in unison with rhythmic editing as a lot of the time these scenes involve music and the editing is used to edit these shots together to compliment this music. Slow motion is also common place in these fight scenes for example in the Chelsea VS Milwall fight from The Football Factory.

This is shown in this fight clip from The football Factory in which the characters get involved in a fight with a rival teams firm. The use of fast paced editing with cuts makes it feel very realistic and as if this is a real fight.

I plan on taking inspiration from these films and using this type of editing within my film as it comes across as very raw and is realistic for the audience, which is something I really want to do as it separates the good and bad films from this genre through their use of editing.

Sound/Music - Sound and music in this genre is very diverse as there is a wide variety of sound techniques used, for example diegetic sounds are used quite a lot to enhance the experience of the football grounds and to show the greatness of these crowds. An example of this is from Green Street when the boys go to the West Ham and Birmingham match. In this scene there is the roar of the crowd which just makes the audience feel as if they are apart of this and makes it very immersive. 

Also the use of non-diegetic sound is very common in these type of films due to them using a wide variety of music that is associated with this culture such as rock music by bands such as the stone roses and oasis. Non-diegetic music is usually prevalent within the fight scenes for example to build up tension and create the atmosphere of how brutal and intense these really are. This use of non-diegetic music also opens up opportunities for a sound bridge to be used which is also a technique used in these films. An example of the non-diegetic sound is the opening scene to The Football Factory in which Supersonic by Oasis is playing to build up the excitement before the match and entice the audience into these characters world with the use of the music.