The focus of this project is to expand the coverage and knowledge of the worldwide sport, Quidditch. It will cover the origins of the sport (how it materialized into a game played in real life, as opposed to just something in the pages of the Harry Potter series), the students at UT who choose to play, and what could possibly lay ahead for the sport, professionally (will it become something more recognized - as important as football and soccer?). Despite its interesting premise and back-story, Quidditch hasn't received too much coverage. With luck, this story will serve to inform people who don't know too much about it and peak their interest. We have no real target audience - the aim is to communicate with as many people as possible and get as many people interested in the sport as we can, without sounding like a promotional video.
Due to its being coverage of a sport, the project will be primarily centered around video, as opposed to text. We will use the text portion as a means of summary, brief and to the point, so that people will be interested enough to click play. The video will allow the viewers to see a live action example of what Quidditch actually is, and how unique the sport is (being, as mentioned before, a fantasy-based sport from a book has been incorporated into the world in which we live).
Three potential organizations/subjects we could interview are: 1) the University of Texas Quidditch team, 2) people at the Office of the Dean of Students, and 3) game spectators. We could interview team members to get first-hand accounts of what it's like to play the sport, people at the Office because that is where student organizations have to go to get certified, and game spectators to get outside point-of-views on Quidditch as a sport.
Definitely something that is NOT yet over-reported. Don't forget to provide sufficient contextual information -- how popular it is (not just here at UT but nationwide)? What makes it interesting as a new sport?
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