Continuing on from the last post, which featured how super 8 has been implemented into feature films, this post features the 2010 Richard Ayoade release "Submarine". This coming of age comedy follows the character Oliver Tate and his achieve his desperate goal to find love.
The film in general is very stylish with a wide array of different techniques used in camera and lighting. The film also uses super 8 footage as cutaway during the film. The film titled "two weeks of love making" depicts Oliver and the young girl he has met playfully running across a beach, play fighting and kissing one another. The fits the stereotype of super 8, evoking a sense of happy nostalgia through happy faces and antics.
An interesting thing about this super 8 footage is that both of the characters appear in the film and the camera is following them. So you would have to assume that the format has been used intentionally as a stylistic choice to depict the mood of happiness and love and not as a self made documentary shot by the characters within the film.
This use of super 8 again evokes a feeling of nostalgia, however in this example, what we see in super 8, is how the characters look back on those memories.
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