Research Of Main Task.

Costume.

Our influence on the clothing was by noting down how in 'The Boat That Rocked' the stereotypical swinging sixties is portrayed through clothing. Here to the left, we see how Richard Curtis has researched into the 60s era and pulled out ecentric characteristics of the dress sense during the sixties. From this and using our own research, we made the decision to use this stereotypical costume design.

Mise-en-scene.

The key idea of creating the swinging sixties was making sure the mise-en-scene was in key with the concept of setting the production during that era. How we made this possible was by using album covers from that time to boost the beliefs of the audience. In our film, we used a panning shot which focused on the mise-en-scene which showed a number of album covers, which included the one on the right. Also, knowing the stereotypical lifestyle of a swinging sixties character, we made sure that we had to create the setting to fit the era. We researched artists and style of household pieces. We mainly used Paisley styled pictures to create the sixties interior, we also used the Paisley style on the character's costume.

Music.

We researched different unsigned tracks which would fit well with our media film, we went through 9 different tracks; Grolling Hone - Rita & The Rock n Rollers, Jazzed - Blue Attitude, Good Ol Days - Kim O Harper, I got A Dime - The Straight 8's, Touch Me 2 - Gareth Johnson, T Bird Roller - Christian Marsac, Stratocaster - Christian Marsac, Stompbox Boogie - Anthony Leonard and Lonely Hearts Club Dance - Jackie Barnett. From these 9 tracks, we both liked the last two tracks, as these tracks both have an upbeat pace and fit well with the era that we were trying to create in the film. However, in the end, we chose to use a copyrighted song, Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones, as we thought this was perfect for the film concept and was used whilst filming the opening sequence. However, if this film was going to be a worldwide product, that we would have to follow copyright laws to gain right to use the music for our media sequence.