ATTACK THE BLOCK

By Joseph Julian

WHAT'S IT ABOUT?

The sci-fi horror film is set on a council estate in South London

and features, among others, Paul and Hot Fuzz star Nick Frost.

The film starts with a street gang witnessing a fiery object fall

from the sky. The group investigate it and discover an alien

creature.

Eventually more creatures arrive and the gang find themselves

defending their council estate from alien invaders

WHO PRODUCED IT ?

Studio Canal

Film4

UK Film Council

Big Talk Productions

HOW IT WAS PRODUCED?

The film was mainly shot at night this would prove a

problem with lighting needed to be accounted for with out

giving away the impression of dark scary night.

The aliens in the film were actually men in suits but then

vfx was added afterwards. Joe Cornish said half way

through that he wanted the hair to be more clumpier and

stand up more so that the viewers would have no idea that

the aliens were men in suits.

In the shot above the lead characters, mosses, is chased down a corridor by a

herd of 15 monsters.

The main plate was shot with a tracking camera on rails, it included Moses, the

corridor and two of the creatures.

Repeat passes were then shot of the additional creatures on green screen, without

the help of motion control.

By using these methods of capturing life like aliens with men and not all special

effects they saved a lot of money and time

THE SOUNDTRACK(THE END)

This was made by basement jacks and went with

the film very well as it was up beat and energetic.

Basement jacks tend to do this style of music which

is up beat and energetic such as :

Red alert

Fly life

raindrops

INSPIRATION

He was inspired by old school aliens such as ET

PROMOTION

poster

DVD

premier

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

Obviously people thought this film was triumph

and deserved good reviews if not excellent.

The most common complaint was the film felt more

like an action drama then action comedy