Tracking Movement
For this project my goal was to see the amount of movement that each soccer player has within one game. I had one of my indoor soccer games video taped and took it to the computer. I started it at the first minute and every 10 seconds paused the game and plotted where each player was. I would then connect the points from 0 seconds to 10 seconds and then 10 seconds to 20 seconds and so on. I did this for 4 minutes total and decided that there was enough movement between all the players to show the distance players go in a game. I decided to create this at large scale and wanted to display it with yarn. I created a field half the size of a full indoor field, half scale is 100 Ft X 45 Ft. I used yarn to map out all 12 players and the ball. I separated the 2 teams in blue and red and marked the ball as green. I wanted to create this at large scale because if it was any smaller I don’t think that people would get a sense of how much a player really runs in a game. The project took over 4000 yards of string to complete. I knew that just displaying this in all yarn wouldn’t help a viewer understand what is going on so I created a poster to help people