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TALES FROM THE TURF
KU alum tapped to film football documentary
By Meg Lowry
mlowry@kansan.com
A dozen football players are scattered around the desks, huddled over white booklets, writing carefully in pencil. Defensive coordinator Carl Torbush lectures from the front of the room, his Tennessee drawl echoing instruction.
The only thing out of the ordinary for this college football scenario is Micah Brown sitting in the back of the classroom, silently attentive to his camera and the scene around him.
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The scene takes place in the third installment of "Theridiron," a documentary series that follows the Jayhawk football team on and off the field throughout the season.
To watch "The Gridiron," go to kufootball.com
"If we win those battles, then we win the ballgame," Torbush says.
They respond with understanding as Turner Gill watches from the corner, clutching a playbook of his own. Brown's camera captures it all.
Brown is a KU alum and former Kansas football player. He returned to KU for the project after he was approached by Lew Perkins and George Mataskis, director of football relations, to shoot some videos for the team. Brown proposed the documentary idea instead.
While he was at KU, Brown participated in track, football and majored in film. As a student, Brown caught the attention of the athletic department and helped to create a documentary about the impact student athletes can have on the community. The department remembered his name when they made plans to shoot video promoting sports at the university. After he is done with "The Gridiron",
Brown is going to do similar projects for other KU sports. Before this, Brown was in California editing movie trailers for films such as "Knight and Day," "The A-Team," and Date Night."
"I knew him as a football player and work with him now," Jeff Love, football video coordinator, says. "And his work is outstanding."
The documentary has been compared stylistically to Hard Knocks, the reality sports documentary television series on HBO that follows an NFL team through training camp, and "Friday Night Lights,"the NBC show about the drama surrounding a high school football team. Metro Sports, Time Warner and Sunflower have all inquired at a regional and national level regarding making "The Gridiron" available OnDemand.
"You always reference different things when looking for a great idea," Brown says. "I knew I wanted to do something no other college team had done and bring a cinematic experience to the college football realm."
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