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Sing Street (2016, Ireland/England/USA)
Boy meets girl, girl unimpressed, boy starts band
1 Intro- up to ‘We have to form a band’
A young boy is forced to move from his safe private school, due to lack of income
with his family. Almost immediately, he is feeling like an outcast, even though he
makes friends with a small group kids in his year, who are also out casted.
As he walks out of the school gates he sees this ‘beautiful’ girl and is told he doesn’t
have a chance. He then approaches the girl introducing himself, saying that he is in a
band and he needs her in the music video.
2 Act 1- ‘we need to make a band’, he says and walks away smug. Him and his new
band go around the school posting flyers and visiting everyone he thinks of, who
plays an instrument that is. Once they get the band started, find a location and start
filming, the girl turns up ready to film. However, she is slightly unimpressed but she
likes the song so she plays along with it.
3 Act 2- making it work- more videos aiming for the concert.
As the band are making more videos and are actually starting to sounds pretty
decent. The girl starts to become interested in the boy. After the boy realises him
and the girl are getting closer and closer, he starts to experiment with his
appearance. He decides to start wearing multiple different choices of clothing, and
applies loads of different makeup, what most people are against him doing.
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Arriving at school
Cinematography
Shot/ reverse shot point of view is used to give the audience an idea of how Cosmo is going
to fit in his new school.
Mid shot, not close up of his face, to show him in the crowd. He witnesses kids spitting,
throwing rats, fighting and smoking.
Moving camera to show him moving through the school. It is also to show the audience
cosmos emotional state and how he is coping in this new school.
Editing/ sound
Simple cuts between mid-shot of cosmo walking, his face and everything he sees. Cosmo is
the kid who just wants to be the neutral kid what’s completely understandable as we know
he doesn’t want to be there.
Non-diegetic sound is used for the whole scene
Nasty comments are made towards Cosmo
Close up sounds are used- accentuates the moment of impactful comments towards cosmo
You can hear enough of the non diegetic sound to hear a few comments directed towards
him. This is also to hear the sound of the head but in the fight. This is to make the audience
make a quick, nasty judgement about the school so the audience sides with Cosmo.
Mise en scene
There are crowds of people being portrayed all ofer the setoff this particular scene.
Drive It Like You Stole It
Sound
Diegetic sound is used when the band is playing the music. Its diegetic because the
characters in the filmas well as the audience can hear the music playing.
However, the scene is a fantasy scene si in the ‘real’ hall the music is being played on a tape
recorder and the kids in the band are actually miming. And in the fantasy, the kids are
singing and playing all of the instruments.
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Editing
There isn’t actually any real rhythm, it’s just invisible editing of the band and crowd.
Except, from the beginning to the end, Cosmo keeps looking at the door waiting for the girl
to arrive. This is a reverse shot.
A shot/reverse of narrative moments are shown in cosmos fantasy to display how things
used to be alright and what changes he wants done in his life to make it better.
Cinematography
When the girl arrives, the camera follows her to display the transformation of the ‘real’
world to cosmos fantasy. You could say that the girl entering is the dawn of something great
concluding cosmos fantasy.
