Made of Stone is a music documentary which centres around the band- Stone Roses. The band originate from Manchester, England. The Stone Roses were widely influential as they were the pioneering band for the 'Madchester' movement during the 1980's and are still considered one of the most successful British bands ever. Their fist album 'The Stone Roses' was released in 1989 and met with huge success and critical acclaim with some critics branding it as one of the greatest British albums ever recorded.
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone was released on the 5th June 2013 and directed by Shane Meadows. It is certificated (by the BBFC) as 15 and runs for approximately 97 minutes. Warp Films is the production company behind the film but it has a total of 8 different distributors that distributed the film all over the world, the project also did relatively well on IMDB scoring 7.3 out of a possible 10.
Throughout the trailer, the band can be seen being subject to various activities from socialising to playing. In our blog post 'A General Brainstorm of Potential shot' we discussed using similar shots, which is good because it means we are on the right track. Another idea we had was that our trailer wouldn't include much dialogue, this trailer only includes snippets of dialogue and the rest is shots of the band engaging in various activities.
In terms of editing, The Stone Roses trailer has an obvious gradual change of pace. It starts of with very slow transitions before becoming faster and faster as the trailer progresses, this is in accordance to the subject on the screen. When the band are playing live and smashing instruments etc, the editing between shot is fast and ordered whilst when the band/fans are calm and not doing much the shots ae smooth and slow.
One advantage of making a movie documentary is that you do not require specific costumes or period costumes. The band members can wear just about anything thats appropriate, with our project its more about the props and locations. So we will need instruments for the band to play or be in the background and stages or studies etc. that the audience would associate with music. The Stone Roses film uses the same principle having no special costumes just simple outfits worn by the band day-to-day.
The soundtrack that features on the Stone Roses trailer are all Stone Roses' songs, fans and audiences would establish this straight away, as our band is fictional then the audience will not know the song but will still make that link, the audience would still assume that it was created by the featured band.
This is the film poster for the film.
The poster is very simple but, I think, very effective. It depicts a image of one of the band members in front of some fans, the picture has been edited to be monochrome so its not lost in the black background. The white image at the bottom is juxtaposed by the pitch black background which makes more of an impact because of the contrast.
The poster also links into the trailer through things like 'Shane Meadows' the director and choices of fonts and colours. As a result we know that the poster belongs to the film even before we've read what's on it. The poster is mainly dominated by the title of the film and again its contrasted against the black because its bright colours, the only colour we see on the poster. The poster draws people in by including other works from the director as well as the director himself. 'This is England' and 'Shane Meadows'. This allows the audience to become aware of the type of film it is and widens the target market because fans of the director might watch it, not just fans of the film.
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