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This is a link post God save the Queen - 1984 I made this!
Hello. My daughter has just produced this trailer/intro thing for a fictional TV show based in the 80s.

You may remember her Slenderman project from a year or so ago called Oblivious. I posted that here and she enjoyed the positive feedback from you guys, hopefully you'll be as generous with this one?

The "I made this" refers to her of course, not me. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 17:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Black dungarees? 1984? I think not. And you still haven't got rid of that stone cladding!
Nicely produced though. Give her my congratulations (though people of my era will always associate God Save the Queen with 1977; I was 15 and an impressionable young punk!)
 (I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 17:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post I wasn't sure
about the fashion... I couldn't give advice on that, I was a right square git back then. Yeah, Some things never change.

Stone cladding was all the go in the 80s though eh?

Thanks.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 17:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post It looks good
but some anachronisms do howl at me. Big warnings on fag packets? The brand Mayfair even existing? Jack Daniels was super exotic, very hard to source and very expensive in 84. I also don't recall drainpipes being rolled up to that extent and skinnies aren't quite the same as drainpipes. However it's well shot and edited. So good work on the important stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 17:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's good and leaning in the right direction
but as Troll says, Jack Daniels didn't get cool for another 5 years or so.
Fashion wise she should watch through 1984 Top of the Pops episodes, not for the acts but for the audience.
If she's going with the Smiths theme everything should be baggier www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPg7C3I-4bo
Graffiti was mainly crap tags and Dave woz ere, not the icony thing behind them, and that bloke needs to shave that beard off, we didn't have those back then and the girls need to crimp and perm their hair :D
On the plus side, just wandering about and sitting by concrete was pretty spot on. If she got hold of some old copies of NME or The Face off Ebay to have lying around the place that'd sell it well.
Do you know why it's called God Save the Queen?
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post The beard man may be playing Sir Clive Sinclair on
the cusp of inventing the C5.

In which case, he needs to keep the beard and shave his head.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post :D

(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm sure
there's some 80s fag packets and/or magazine and newspaper covers from the 80s on the interwebs somewhere. In hindsight, I could have printed a few for the production.

She was pretty much in control of everything though, I shouldn't really help her too much.

Thanks again.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post this could help in research
likepunkneverhappened.blogspot.co.uk
 (who's_the_what?, Mon 23 Feb 2015, 16:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's nicely put together
but I'd like to see more 80s stuff in something set in the 80s.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks all for the comments so far...
Getting the fashion, styles and products right, I knew was going to be the hardest bit. The beard!!! That just didn't occur to me at the time. So obvious now that that's very much a today thing.

Keep them coming, we're learning from this. :)
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post This might sound super fussy
and I'd be interested to see if others disagree, but I really don't think shot glasses were a thing till well into the nineties. You see everybody doing shots in the pubs these days, but it used to be shorts in a plain tumbler, and not that often, unless it was last orders.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post JD did start pushing in the mid eighties
I remember maybe '88 or '89 getting a JD tin with a couple of shot glasses and and a bottle in it for Christmas one year. Back to pubs though, and no, I don't remember shots being the thing they are now and it was maybe mid nineties when it took off?

In fact I think it was '94 I first went to a vodka bar in Glasgow which was of course all shot glasses, so I think you're about right.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post thanks
I'm surprised about that JD marketing drive that early. The best marketing they had for me and my mates was that when Appetite for Destruction started gaining traction in about 88, released in 87 in the USA I think, the band never seemed to do a photo shoot without a bottle in hand.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, superb product placement!
Reckon that was when it gained momentum, and of course Jim Beam and Southern Comfort jumped on the back of it.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Might be worth raiding a car boot sale
if the budget is there, pick up an old stereo, some cassettes, vinyl, some digital watches stuff like that and a walkman for when they are outside.
Band posters and T-shirts would help sell it too.
:)
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Absolutely
for the next time she does a 'period piece' I'll pick her up some stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Rubik's cubes were everywhere
That could be a cheap prop to put on the coffee table.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Acid wash jeans, converse trainers, puffball skirts, check shirts, leggings, bolero jackets
shoulder pads of course, braces, waistcoats.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post oh yeah, fucking deeley boppers
even in nightclubs. Jesus.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post chino's and sued shoes/boots also ripped jeans 501s
Jason donavon in a waist coat brother beyond with there nackkets And of course the start of acid house with raves and smiley t shirts
 (I helped save b3ta! fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post acid house and smileys were a little way off in 84

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 20:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah yes, ripped 501's with a red selvedge, had a pair myself
and of course Frankie Says Relax t-shirts.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 20:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post A denim jacket, boy or girl (but not mixed in the same group).
Girls jackets with padded of ruffled shoulders, or frilled white leather.
Guys padded type jacket in flourescent pink.
Lots of perms and big waves of spray-set hair.

Checked shirts look wrong, too. And that beard. You could have someone disastrously trying to grow the weediest moustache ever though.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post These looks are generally more 1990s
If it's a period piece it needs to almost border on parody. So here's a quick checklist...
- one big backcombed Bananarama hairdo
- one Princess Di / George Michael held-in-place-with-a-ton-of-hairspray hairdo
- one of the blokes needs to have a mullet (think Pat Sharp c1986, if you can bear it)
- one pair of legwarmers
- one copy of Protect And Survive lying around somewhere
- one Walkman with the orange foam earphones round the neck, or failing that, a ghetto blaster

Good effort, look forward to seeing more
 (Ping Telnet and the FTPs, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha.
Spot on with all of these. You see, these kids just weren't around then. I was, but I have a terrible memory hehe.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Also
Calculator watches
Jeans with lots of pockets
Dunlop green flash trainers
Parker coats
white socks with everything
Curtain hair styles for the boys or a flat top!
Track suit tops
Gola / head bags

And generally NOT being so cool.... That came much later!! :D
 (I helped save b3ta! benkai Doing nothing as of ..., Tue 24 Feb 2015, 19:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post perhaps have a look
at This England 1986.

Cracking tune though.
 (marnail I will have a small brandy, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 21:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post She's a massive fan of
This is England in all its forms. t'was an inspiration I think.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Cigarettes were so much more difficult to light back then.

(I helped save b3ta! Flash_Bastard, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:35, , Reply)