1) The document provides a summary of the plot of the 2016 musical film Sing Street. It describes the film following a boy who forms a band to impress a girl. 2) It outlines the film's four acts - the boy joining a new school, forming the band, making music videos, and performing at a concert while dealing with family struggles. 3) In the end, the band succeeds at their concert and the main character reconnects with the girl, who has been in an abusive relationship, and they plan to travel together to London on his grandfather's boat.

1. Sing street (2016, Ireland/UK/USA)
Boy Meets Girls Unimpressed, Boy starts Band
1. Intro – up to ‘we have to form a band’
2. Act 1 – the band together – first video
3. Act 2 – making it work – more videos – aiming for the concert.
4. Act 3 – parents split up – she’s gone – the concert – it all comes together
5. Coda… and away we go
Todorova Narrative structure
Musical – comedy – RomCom – social realism
1. Intro
A young boy is forced to move from his safe private school, to a public school due to
lack of money within the family. Almost immediately he is an outcast, and though
this makes friends with another outcast, which associates all around ‘you should of
danced’.
As he walks out the school gates he sees the ‘girl of his dream’, and is told he has no
chance with her. He approaches her by introducing that he is in a band, and offers
her a place in their music video, due to learning she is a model.
2. Act 1
‘we need to make a band’, he says as he walks away smug. Him and his new out
casted friends go around o everyone they can think off at their school who plays an
instrument and asks them to be in a band, until they have formed a full band.
3. Act 2
The band is actually decent, and works well together. The first music video, with the
girl was a success, and are planning many more, in order to aim for a concert, while
facing a lot of appearance experiments for the band.
4. Act 3
Throughout, it is present how much of a financial struggle their family is facing, due
to this stress the two parents decide to split up, and on top of this the girl goes away
to ‘London’, and goes to his first concert hoping she turns up and waits for her, but
she never turns up. Connor now decides to go to the band’s first concert.
The concert is a success and wins over the school, due to the surprise of their talent.
The last song of the concert is ‘brown shoes’ which is for all the people like Baxter
‘head teacher’ and all the other bullies the kids encounter. At the end Raphina walks
in as the band is playing the song to an exited crowd. Connor joins Raphina after the
show.
Connor being saddened by this goes to the girls home to find Raphina, where he
finds her with a bruise on her face and it is very clear that she hasn’t gone to London
to be a model with her boyfriend, they both talk on a bench for a while where
Raphina expresses her past family experiences, and how she ended up here she is.

2. 5. Connor (the main character) and Raphina, go to Brendan (Connors brother) and
persuade him to drive them down to where their grandfathers boat, where its docks
in order for them to travel to London. He agrees and drives them, Connors says his
good byes to his parents even though neither can hear him. The get to the ocean
and Connors says bye to his brother, and watches him leave.
Genre
Sing street establishes its musical genre though the use of songs that are featured in the
film. Unlike many other musical films, sing street doesn’t spontaneously burst into song.
Instead they are introduced, as they are portrayed in a more natural way.
Furthermore, sing street establish its romance genre though the budding relationship of the
viewers, while incorporating parts of comedy into it making it into a RomCom. It focuses on
the main aimwithin the film
Social realismis present within sing street, as it shows everything in a real light, and shows
maybe some parts other films would not incorporate. It doesn’t gloss everything and shows
it in a perfect light, but rather reflects the realismof all the scenes creating a more attached
and real sense within film.
Musical – comedy – RomCom – Social Realism
Purpose
Feature films purpose are initially made for money and profit, and from the success of a
feature film, national identify ones along, where you or company becomes more well know,
and from this comes more profit for the company. Carers of those involved become created
and expanded with national identity so their skills, and talents also become national.
Audience
Sing street has a target audience, of teenagers, while also creating a secondary audience of
the generation from the 80s who can reflect on the times in which it is being reflected
within the film, where they will find certain elements relatable.
Girls would also find a key interest as they are stereotypical drawn to romantic films, and
can fantasise.
As for psychographics, people who enjoy general success, and a build-up of things which
become as obstacle to the main protagonist, finally become solved and their main aimis
finally achieved which reflect a sense of relief on the audience.
Geodemographic, of Sing Street would be Irish cinemas, as for starts they are not very
known for producing good feature films, so would aimto get the audience of Ireland to
watch, and enjoy while adding certain things Irish family’s watching can relate too.
However, wanting this to be a successful feature film they want to also make it appealing to
other countries such as the UK.

3. Propps Narrative structure
Propp, was a literary critic and a scholar who founded the idea that a certain type of
character was used in every narrative structure. Firstly the ‘hero’, ‘the villain’ ‘the donor’
‘The dispatcher’, ‘the false hero’ ‘the helper’, ‘the princess’, ‘her father’. He created this
from his analysis of the narrative to fairy tales. While reflecting to sing street many
character relate to this.
For example, Connor is seen as the main hero, as he is the one with a key purpose of getting
Raphina. While characters such as the villains would be seen as the school bully’s, and his
head teacher who always interrupt his path. The princess would be seen as Raphina, who is
seen as a reward to the hero and object the villain’s plot.
In the last scene, his brother acts as the donor, as he gives them the boat to leave.