Sing street

1. Sing Street (2016, Ireland/UK/USA)
BOY MEETS GIRL. She isn’t impressed. He starts a band to try and impress
her.
1. Intro – Connor starts a new school. He doesn’t really fit in and has no friends. He
meets a girl, Raphina, he wants to impress her so he decides to make a band.
2. Act 1 – The band forms. Connors is now good friends with the members and are
always practicing together. They make their first music video together.
3. Act 2 – They’re making the band work now and they’re making more music videos
together. Their aim is getting a concert.
4. Act 3 – Connors parents split up. Raphina moves away to England with her ex-
boyfriend. The band have a concert. Raphina comes back and they end up getting
together.
5. Connor asks his brother to help him and Raphina run away. They run away together.
Narrative
 Five act structure
 Linear narrative
 Quite a large cast of characters
 More narrative threads. A number of ‘background characters have stories hinted at a
real world setting but with fantasy music numbers.
Genre
 Musical – Singing and dancing. Normally in a musical, they break out into song and
everyone in the scene knows the choreography for the dance. However, in this movie,
it is a backstreet movie so the characters are signing because they’re playing the
music and singing along with it. Nothing is choreographed up until the fantasy scene.
 Comedy
 Romance
 Fantasy
Purpose
 Money
 Entertain / make people laugh
 Sell the soundtrack
Audience
 Genre fans
 Irish film fans

2.  People who were teens when the movie was set
 Irish and British audiences
 Fans of the director
 Fans of the actors
 Teens
Messages and Values
The messages and values shown in this movie is that life is hard so, don’t give up and go for
it. Also, having fantasy moments doesn’t solve everything but just makes you feel better for a
short time.
Success
I really enjoyed the movie so, in my eyes it was a success. They made over 9 million dollars
from making this movie. It cost around $4 million but ended up making $13.5 million. For
the audiences, the movie was a success so, if someone who was middle aged who enjoys
action movies, watched this, they might not enjoy it but for the purpose of the movie and
their target audiences, they’re very successful.
The movie won four awards:
 Irish film and Television award
 National Board Review
 San Diego Film Critics Society
 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association