Spike Island is about a group of 16 year old lads in a band, who love the Stone Roses and will do anything to go to Spike Island and see their favourite bands play live.
In the first scene of this trailer, there is a cassette tape, which tells the audience that the film is going to be based on music, and especially from the 1980's-1990's when cassette tapes were used music before CD's were invented. These cassettes were used as the main source of music, and often recorded favourite songs on the radio, instead of forking out for the actual full album.The sound for this scene is the cassette tape is being rewound, leading to the opening of 'She Bangs The Drum' by The Stone Roses, who were a big Madchester band in the 90's. This connotes the film is going to be music orientated and especially the Stone Roses. Also in the film, the characters don dodgy Ian Brown/The Gallagher brothers style Manc haircuts, which were popular amongst music-struck teenage boys in the 90's. This displays the British Social Realism genre by being about a bunch of young, mardy band members in the 90's being passionate and not giving in.
Actors - (00:52)
In this shot you see 5 typical northern looking boys, who are in school uniform, with their own 'fashionable' 90's trendy jackets over the top. The boys look of a suitable age for 16 year olds, and they all don the typical Manc haircut and accents. They look like typical BSR characters, as they are slightly scruffy looking, and look like they've had a hard life. The casting for the boys has been a good choice as Elliott Tittensor (Tits) appeared in Shameless, which is also set in Manchester. Elliott casted alongside Nico Mirallegro (Dodge) and Jordan Murphy (Zippy) both appeared in both series of My Mad Fat Diary recently, which again is set in Northern England, and has the same 90's Madchester vibe. These relatively unknown actors allow the audience to focus on their current roles, instead of focusing on previous roles the actor has established in the media.
In the film, the lighting is mostly natural lighting used, apart from the artificial strobe lights used at the gig. The artificial lighting creates a sense of a realism for the audience and makes the audience get a real perception of how the 90's era actually was and looked. The natural lighting in this scene illuminates the bedroom in the early morning. This also gains the audience's focus on the old style 90's radio beside Dodge's bed, and the guitar behind him, representing him as a music orientated teenage boy, who struggles to get up early. Most BSR's use natural lighting to make the scenes as realistic as possible, especially if the films are set in an era which is not the present day. The blue colour pallet in this film creates an enhanced feeling for the audience, the blue in this part of the film creates an almost tense atmosphere, as the boys are sneaking in to a gig, this way, the mood of the film will stay with the audience after the film has ended.
Production Design (00:16)
The location where this film is set, are real houses and it is a real street in Manchester. The houses are all identical and this creates a very real atmosphere for the audience. As this scene cuts to Dodge in his bedroom (used above) this is almost an establishing shot, showing the audience that the houses that the boys live in are these. The scenes are very realistic, as all the locations are very real, like the all back streets the lads walk down and the school they attend, and look very realistic and genuine as they would in Manchester in the early 90's. The clothes the lads wear reflect the sorts of houses they live in. They wear white wash jeans, over sized old 'Adidas' jackets, fake Louis Vuitton hats which reflect the 90's era in a nut shell.
Spike Island, The Selfish Giant and A Room For Romeo Brass have all inspired the ideas i have for using Mise-En-Scene within my opening sequence. For my production design, I will use a run down, real life, location, where lots of underclass families live. There will be graffiti on the walls, and I want to to look as gritty and raw as possible. The lighting I will use will be all natural, even if there are scenes in the dark, it will create the realist possible atmosphere and feeling for the audience. Also, I will use a blue colour palette to create emotion in the opening sequence, and to help the audience sympathise the troubled, social misfit I will go on to create. I feel like actors who have had previous first hand experience with the issues i go on to explored in my sequence will portray the role well, and create realism. A Room For Romeo Brass & The Selfish Giant both use actors from the local area in which the films were filmed in, which means they have some type of connection with the morale of the film, and may have experiences with the themes explored in the film, which helps them portray their character roles accurately and naturaiistically. The Era i will use is the present day, as social issues are as diverse as ever, and there are lots of themes to explore and will be easy to intertwine into my piece of work.
Spike Island, The Selfish Giant and A Room For Romeo Brass have all inspired the ideas i have for using Mise-En-Scene within my opening sequence. For my production design, I will use a run down, real life, location, where lots of underclass families live. There will be graffiti on the walls, and I want to to look as gritty and raw as possible. The lighting I will use will be all natural, even if there are scenes in the dark, it will create the realist possible atmosphere and feeling for the audience. Also, I will use a blue colour palette to create emotion in the opening sequence, and to help the audience sympathise the troubled, social misfit I will go on to create. I feel like actors who have had previous first hand experience with the issues i go on to explored in my sequence will portray the role well, and create realism. A Room For Romeo Brass & The Selfish Giant both use actors from the local area in which the films were filmed in, which means they have some type of connection with the morale of the film, and may have experiences with the themes explored in the film, which helps them portray their character roles accurately and naturaiistically. The Era i will use is the present day, as social issues are as diverse as ever, and there are lots of themes to explore and will be easy to intertwine into my piece of work.
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