Attack The Block

Attack The Block

In an interview with Joe Cornish, he says that the movie is based mainly on film about aliens, gangster films and also fantasy films.

The main problem that he was faced with when making the film was the extremely low budget he was faced with and with the money he had Cornish could not afford to use lots of technology and film the movie in 3D so he was faced just to record in 2D and also use older editing techniques to try to save money.

Joe Cornish's views on the British film industry was that not enough young break though actors were being cast in films and he wanted to change this so he auditioned for 11 actors all under or around the age of 16. this also made the story seen more realistic as the actors were actually playing characters their own age and not trying to pull of being different ages which would have been more difficult and would not have worked as well.

The soundtrack for Attack The Block was written and recorded by the electronic dance group Basement Jaxx, 20 songs were recorded for the whole movie in total. Having this type of music made the movie seen more real because it fitted well with the stereotype of all young people  that live in city suburbs listen to hip hop and electronic music.

The movie was promoted by showing adverts on TV and also by having lots of posters up everywhere, for example having them on the side of buses lets lots of people see the add. the bigger characters and also the directors and producers would also have done interviews to promote the film.