sing street overview

1. Sing Street (2016, Ireland/UK/USA)
Boy meet girl. Girl unimpressed. Boy starts band.
The movie Sing Street is a 2016 Irish musical comedy drama film directed written and
produced by John Carney and film in Dublin Ireland. It is a comedy romance movie, which
included a musical, and drama genre in side, and it was released on 20th May in the United
Kingdom and run for 106 minutes. The main cast of this movie are Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
(Conor/Cosmo), Lucy Boynton (Raphina), Jack Reynor (Brendan), Mark McKenna (Eamon),
Aidan Gillen (Robert), Kelly Thornton (Ann), Ben Carolan (Darren), Lan Kenny (Barry),
Percy Chamburuka (Ngig) AND Karl Rice (Garry).
Sing street is a movie set in the eighties when everyone is moving to the beat of pop music.
Where an ordinary teenager boy is dealing with his family relationship while moving to a
new school environment. Then one day he sees a beautiful girl, and in order to impress and
know her, he decided to form a band, with the help of his new friends.
Intro “we have to form a band”
At the start of the movie, sing street it was set in the south inner city Dublin in 1985 where
the character Robert Lawlor is struggling with his work place and his marriage, which made
him drinks and smokes all the time. At the beginning of the sing street the family was having
a meeting at the house and this is when Robert Lawlor announces that to be able to save
money he will need to take his younger son which is the main character Conor out of his
expensive fee paying of the school and moving him to a Christian brothers school.
At the first day on Conor going to his new school in his new uniform, but without the
regulation black shoes and which made him got in to trouble on the first day of his new start.
The school principal Br. Baxter took Conor to his office and told him that he have to have a
new pair of black school on the next day, where Conor told him that his family cannot afford
a new pair of black shoes, so eventually he force Conor to complete the day shoeless where
he cannot wear his shoes take his shoes back until the end of the school days, than one day
Conor came back with his shoes which was painted black from the art room. One day when
Conor tells a beautiful aspiring model Raphina to join to their first music video that his band
is making, as Darren agrees to manage the band and introduces him to the multi-
instrumentalist Eamon in able to start their new band. Moreover, by doing a covering song
Conor and Eamon started to write their own song and to produce a music video.
Act 1 “the band together- first video”
In act 1 this Conor spots a pretty girl across the street. As his friend Darren said, the she says
that she has no interest in any pupil, which Conor will be one of them. However, Conor
approaches to her and introduces himself, and she introduces herself as Raphina and she said
she is a model. Than Conor asks her if she could be in her music video for his band with the
song “take on me”. When Conor notice that he will need to create a band enable to get a
further knowing of Raphina, Darren takes Conor to meet Eamon, a kid that is skilled at most
instruments. Than next person was nigig to play the keyboard and another two kid called
Larry and Garry. As Conor is the one who planned this band, so he acts as the manager.
They decided to call their band “sing street”. With Eamon help Conor wrote the first original
song “the riddle of the model” inspired by Raphina. Laster on the band gathers together

2. ready to film the first video when Raphina arriving to do the make up for the boys. This is
when the first music video has been produced.
Act 2 “making it work- more videos-aiming for the concert”
In Act 2 when Conor finished making their first music video for the band, he wears make-up
to school and this is when Baxter grabs him and pulls him into the bathroom and violently
washes the make-up off for him. After school, they all meet to make another music video
with the song “a beautiful sea”. This is when Raphina decides to call Conor “Cosmo” enable
to fit better with the band. Cosmo, Darren and Eamon see a sign at school for a dance where
they can play a gig with the band. So they all agree and get to rehearsing while preparing for
the midterm.
Act 3 “parents split up-she’s gone-the concert-it all comes together”
In Act 3 Cosmo ask Raphina to join him to the adventure and this is when they get to know
each other more and better. At home Cosmo parent Robert and Penny announce that they are
splitting up. The band practices the video for their song “drive it like you stole it” at the gym
in school, hoping that Raphina will show up but she never did. This is when Cosmo started to
imagines the video going like an American Prom night in the 50’s theme. When everything
was good, when Raphina shows up and his brother helping him and his parent was back
together. After this, Cosmo found out that Raphina has left with his boyfriend to London.
However, not long after, she came back but Cosmo has left her alone. The night has finally
come, and the boys played a slow song at the concert and when they was playing the last
song, Raphina shows up.
Act 5 “coda…and away we go”
When Cosmo and Raphina runs home to Brendan and trying to convince him to drive him to
their grandfather boast so that they could head out to London. Brendan agrees to drives them
there and Cosmo knowing that their parent are all asleep but he still went and said his last
goodbye to them.
Narrative theory
The todorv’s narrative theory is the states of most story or film plot lines follow the pattern
where the movie Sing Street also does.
Equilibrium- the first part of the story is when everyone in the family are still together and
Connor moved to a new school and met a girls call Raphina and form a musical band where
everything was going well and the relationship with the girl are getting along. However, they
have also film a music video and are peppering for the concert coming up soon.
Disruption- the disruption in this film is when Connor parents Robert and Penny announce
that they are splitting up. However, on the day of the Connor practicing his concert and he
has been hopping to see Raphina turning up, but at the end she never did. At this time Connor
went to his house where she lived before and found out that she left with her boyfriend to
London.

3. Restored order- not long after Raphina came back and found Connor. And the concert day
finally came and when the band is playing the last song, Raphina finally shows up.
Equilibrium again- at the end of the film where all the happiness is back together. And this is
where Connor asks his brother to take him to his grandfather boat and his brother agree to
take him. And this is when Connor and Raphina got on to the boat and left Dublin Ireland and
head off to London.
Genre
The main genre of the movie Sing Street is musical comedy. Where there are many funny and
stupid scene where teenagers was just acting how teenagers should be, which made the movie
run smoothly with their genre. However, the including many different song in the movie
establishes its musical genre, and with the use of song lyrics it shows how they are really like
in their life.
Additionally, throughout this movie there is social realism that is included in there. As this
movie imply the working class people and how they are trying to live their live like, and there
are some poorer character that lives in flats, which established the different between higher
class, medium class and lower class. Moreover, Sing Street also includes the genre of
romance where teenagers are building up their love relationship. For example, where
Conor/Cosmo and Raphina went through many things together and in the end, they end up
leaving their hometown to London to create their new live.
Purpose
The Sing Street is a feature film where films are mostly fiction and fantasy included where it
could be real event but scriptwriter would add more drama into it. The purpose of making a
feature film are to make profit, which at the same time it will enable carers and crew to
explore and open their acting career as they was able to show their skills throughout the film.
However, the money that were used to create the film will fortunately earn back which allow
the film making crew to create more new film and this would be carrying on again and again.
As well as, feature film might be seen as an object to make money for the entertainment
industry, but there are still audience who are interested in fantasy film like that, which could
also be a purpose of people making feature film. Those are film that could make people
emotional, laugh and cry where many feeling would be put inside and related to the audience
and this is one of the reason and purpose why people like to watch feature film.
The budget of this movie was around $4 million, as the box office was around $13.6 million,
which was a financial success. As an audience of Sing Street, I think this movie has mostly
reach their purpose that was to make profit. But to me I think that Sing Street has many
emotional scene where teenagers is trying to live for their dream and be who they wanted to
be which most teenagers audience would feel how the character feel which I think is a
success movie.
Audience
The target audience of audience of the Sing Street would be around teenagers to adult
audience. As the main character in this film is all teenagers back in to 1980s which many
teenagers would be attracted however the movie was set in the 80s which the adult now a

4. days would also be interested in looking into this movie as it can relate back to their past
teenagers time/childhood. The Director of this movie Sing Street is John Carney, which is a
master director for music-films, as many musical film fans audience already know. On the
other hand, this movie is about what teenagers go through and how they become successful,
and people who like to relate themselves and watching others successful may like to watch
this movie. However, this movie would be aiming at working class or middle class as they
could relate themselves to the character , as higher class people are likely to watch as well as
musical genre movie can attract many different kind of audience as music can infection many
people.
Message and values
The message and values of the sing street is trying to get across the audience that if you have
dream you should chase it and not to give up without trying or even half way. However, the
movie also suggest to the audience that following your dream can be hard and many different
things could get in the way, but with trying and effort you will make it in the end. As this
movie also get across that there are many people outside in the world are struggling in their
family and condition life, and with passion and effect you put in you might be able to change
all the things at the end. On the other hand, sometime when you achieve something or get
something after a long way through, you might also lose something on the way or at the end.
As the character n sing street did follow his dream and able to leave the small area that he is
living in and move to London, but at the same time he lost his family.