The project outline was presented to Swansea City Football Club, who eventually agreed sponsorship in kind. They permitted full use of the North Bank section of the ground as a rehearsal and performance venue and also agreed to assist in the promotion of the project.

With support from the football club and partner organisation, Gorseinon College, an application was made to the Arts Council of Wales for a ‘Children, Young People and the Arts’ bursary to financially assist with the development of the performance and creation of the film.

Rehearsals with students from Gorseinon College were spread over a period of six weeks. Dance ideas were explored and devised through a series of workshops, lead by the choreographers. The students contributed to the bank of ideas, many of which were developed and used in the final piece. The dance piece was broken down into manageable sections, mass movement, aggression, tribal and humorous. Motifs were developed through intensive workshop sessions and integrated at crucial stages.

The filming took place in the Vetch Field on 26 February 2003. Performing on the terraces, within the environment that they had studied injected enthusiasm into the team. Performing in-situ allowed the students to create the appropriate atmosphere and behave as required within a controlled and professional environment.

The editing process was extremely time-consuming. The footage amounted to six hours in total, made up of sequences shot at the Vetch Field and CCTV footage from recent games.

The use of CCTV footage was permitted under strict guidelines. To avoid issues relating to the infringement of human rights, the features of individuals needed to be obliterated so that the crowds were not recognisable. This was achieved by inverting the colour at the editing stage. The result was interesting in several respects; once the colour had been inverted, the fan’s faces appeared black and almost mask-like. Mask-work was also explored at the filming stage as the notion of loss of identity was considered. In addition to this, the nature of the colour inversion also made visual references to previous prints.