This film is about a boy called Oliver Tate, a welsh boy who has a mother and father and is an outsider in his school. It is a documentary on his life, We see basically everything that he is going through whether it be with voice overs or a montage of shots or even just acting out the scene.
"15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440292/
It was written and directed by Richard Ayoade (actor from IT Crowd) and it stars Craig roberts (Oliver) and Yasmin Paige (Jordana). The film was based on the crittically acclaimed novel by Joe Dunthorne, however the characters personalities were all a version that the director himself had created.
"I made Craig Roberts, who plays Oliver, copy my Welsh accent. I also forced him to memorise my entire life story. But that isn’t something specific to Submarine... Generally, I like to act out all the scenes from the film and have the actors copy me. If they can reproduce just 20 per cent of what I’m blasting out then we’ve got something pretty flippin’ special. I’m all over it like white on rice." http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment/movies/10639/submarine.html
I think the way that pauses and silent moments were used was really clever. It made it feel a lot more real and on the spot instead of scripted and predictable like a lot of films do. As a rule, using silence in a film isnt really a good idea but they took the risk and I really think it worked. The use of volume is used alot to make it realistic, so sometimes they will mumble when they are annoyed or nervous, sometimes just blabber about nothing and the quick responses is just like they are having that convo for the 1st time it is wasnt rehearsed. I thought the music was very well fitted and worked well with the moments of silence that were also in there.
The use of montage in this is also very effective. When Oliver and Jordana are running around in the dark after announcing that they are going out, it was creative. I thought it showed the excitement and happiness that they felt and it also was a really good way of showing that the time was passing but also showed a development in the characters. In between different scenes there would be a fade to blue or red and then a title of the person that was being focussed on during the next few scenes, so JORDANA or GRAHAM. I didnt like how this was done because although it gave it a sort of humourous feel and the music that went with it was kindof deadly I personally thought it didn't fit with the overall feel of the film.
There were a lot of POV shots when he was talking to people. There was 1st person when he was with jordana and 3rd person over the shoulder shots when he talks to his parents in his room. Also when he went to the evening show to spy on his mum there was a shot looking through the door when his mum was leaving the room so it was like it was us looking through the window. The use of handheld was very clever here too. When a silent moment between Jordana and Oliver came and they were looking straight at eachother to kiss, the camera would go right in front of them and give us the point of view of the other person. Shows us the emotion of how they are feeling and what they are thinking through their eyes.
Overall i liked the film, the moments of silence were what really got my attention because they just added the reality feel to the whole piece. When Oliver looked out of the window or when he was lying on the
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