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This scene of me standing on a baseball field with my Mariners jersey talking about the history and fan culture of the Mariners fanbase felt essential in order to make the film feel more personal. Given my relationship with sports features both a historically successful team, and a historically unsuccessful one, I wanted to highlight both considering those differing perspectives led to the idea in the first place.

This image, which shows a graphic comparing 3 separate cities (Boston, Miami, and Cleveland) and the major trophies they have won through a motion graphic of the trophies falling onto a TV showing highlights (or lowlights) from their teams was one of the most fun but also most difficult parts of the process. It was certainly the most motion graphic editing I had ever done in a video software, as it was all done via keyframing in the video editor. I also couldn't watch the entire thing back until I rendered the full video given how many moving images were condensed into the scene, but I'm glad with how it looks.

While the quality of this photo isn't great, I consider this image of a crowd of people jumping around and celebrating chaotically at a super bowl watch party in downtown Seattle possibly the most important image in the film, at least from my perspective. This is the only clip aside from the ones featuring me in them that was actually filmed by me, as it was a video from my phone the moment the Seahawks won the super bowl. The main questions of "why do I care so much?" and "where do we go from here?" stemmed from this exact moment.

This image, a graphic showing the ten largest stadiums on the planet, including their names, location, and capacity, highlighting the 8 that belong to college football teams, was the most I worked on a single graphic for the whole video. I took screenshots of sattelite images of each stadium on google maps, and had the tedious task of lining them all up so that the images, text, and highlights were aligned. I wanted to make sure I had a decent amount of graphs and motion graphics in the film, as I didn't want the entire thing to feel like just narration over found footage I took from online. I'm hoping that made the video feel more engaged.
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This is the final scene of the film, which shows me standing in front of Sugarloaf Mountain about 25 minutes outside of Boulder, a nearly perfectly cone shaped mountain that was meant to represent "reaching the mountaintop", before climbing back down to the bottom again. I climbed this mountain (a short hike, really) and filmed all the other "mountain" scenes on the hike. I felt the actual representation of the mountaintop helped portray the point I was making, and I was lucky to find a mountain that was so perfectly shaped and easily accessible in order to visualize this idea.