Rumbo al ascenso

Abstract

CD Castellón is one of the most popular teams in Spain. Its deep history and tradition make it a very popular team, especially in the province of Castellón. CD Castellón was founded on 20 July 1922, after changing the name of Cervantes Club de Fútbol in an agreement made by the club's Board of Directors. The club's first president was Tadeo Mallach, a businessman and ship consignee who was strongly in favour of this change. This president was not well liked by the citizens of Castellón as he was accused of selling a match to Valencia CF. In 1941, and after the first promotion to the first division in its history, CD Castellón chained a total of 6 consecutive seasons in the highest category of Spanish soccer. During the 42/43 season, they even fought to win the league, but finally Athletic Club de Bilbao won it and CD Castellón finished 4th, reaching the highest number of points of the club in the first division. In 1946 Castalia, the new home of the Albinegros fans, was inaugurated. However, the best season in the history of CD Castellón would take a few years to arrive. After several seasons oscillating between the second and third divisions, the team was promoted again in 1972. During the season of return to the first division, the team had great players such as Vicente Del Bosque, Cela or Planelles, and this made them finish in 5th position and reach the final of the Copa del Generalísimo on June 29, 1973, which they ended up losing 2-0 to Athletic Club. After 100 years of life, a new phase begins in 2022, after the sale of the club to the Greek-Canadian Haralabos Voulgaris. The new owner arrives with very clear ideas and with the objective of returning CD Castellón to the first division of Spanish football in a period of 6 or 7 years. As for the members who made this audiovisual report, we formed a couple before the delivery of the proposal in the second round, because after changing our minds after the first round, we decided that making an audiovisual report on a very interesting subject for both of us and for the city of Castellón, was the best option. We had no doubts and making an audiovisual report about CD Castellón was the first and only idea we sounded out because, as we have insisted before, it is a subject of great importance in Castellón due to the great interest the team arouses in the city. Despite the complexity of the subject, we wanted to carry out the report and thus live the experience of creating a journalistic product with depth and interest in Castellón society. The topic ''Rumbo al ascenso'' is a suitable choice for an academic work because it offers the opportunity to analyze a real and concrete situation in the field of football of a specific team. In this report we deal with the whole centenary season of CD Castellón. From the purchase - sale of the club and the change of management, through the sporting planning and the course of this beautiful journey during the league matches to the end, leading CD Castellón to achieve the objective of playing in the play-offs for promotion to the second division. For this, we have relied on several sources of specialists who are dedicated to follow and live the club's news on a daily basis. Journalists, people in charge of travel management, fans and footballers. Once the project was approved in the second round, we got down to work. First of all, we set ourselves a series of objectives, which were as follows: To make the current situation of CD Castellón visible. - To analyse the project of the new ownership of CD Castellón. - To innovate in the information provided by the traditional media. - To cover CD Castellón's current affairs for one season. - To demonstrate that we are capable of creating a quality audiovisual piece. Once the objectives had been set, we started with the pre-production phase, the most important one, as it is thanks to this that the optimum conditions are achieved for the production of the audiovisual piece. Next, we started with the filming plan and held the first meeting with our tutor, Pau Fuster. We presented the sources we wanted to interview for the project and he advised us to document them in order to carry them out in the best possible way. Once this meeting was held, we started to contact the sources in order to interview them. To do this, we began to reserve the necessary material, which could be booked without any problem, for the dates planned, except at Easter to record some plans of the Castalia stadium, so the recording was delayed for a few days. The interviews were recorded during the production phase, as well as all the necessary resource shots for the report. For the elaboration of these two important parts of the report we had a meeting with our tutor Pau Fuster so that he could help us with the interviews. He also advised us which shots he thought were the best for us to use in our documentary. We also talked to him about the sources we had chosen for the project and he guided us when it came to changing some sources and telling us about others that were better suited to our audiovisual piece. The documentary has been recorded with material from the UJI and the CD Castellón, which has sometimes lent us the microphone and a tripod. We have only had to spend money on petrol to travel to the Castalia stadium and to the trainings in Oropesa del Mar. Next, we go to the post-production phase. In this we visualized all the interviews and the resource shots and we chose the best cuts to start assembling our report. The first section we tackled in post-production was the ambient sound of each interview. In the interviews that we used the lavalier microphone that the press department of CD Castellón gave us, we didn't have to modify the audio as it was heard in an optimal way. On the other hand, in the interviews that we used the handheld microphone, we had to modify the sound, eliminating the noise, as for example in the interview with Alberto Aicart.Our report is an informative documentary about the centenary season of CD Castellón, so we thought that the most appropriate television space for the broadcast was a sports programme. In this case, we think that the ideal programme to broadcast our report is ''La Tribuna'', an informative, opinion, debate and current sports programme about CD Castellón. Finally, we end with a final assessment. On the one hand, we have learnt how to prepare a storyboard and a script, we have improved our skills when interviewing the protagonists and we have become familiar with the use of video cameras and all the necessary material for the project. We are very happy with the final result of our TFG, as we have fulfilled our goal of making our Final Degree Project an experience that would teach us how to carry out a professional level audiovisual report. However, we think that we could improve the sound in some shots and interviews and some aspects of the editing.