Firstly I have to admit I had to stop watching after 30 minutes as I was in danger of cringing to death so there may be some inaccuracy.
Actors generally cant do graffiti, there are some out there that could be found if the casting people dug a little deeper, but they don't. Anyway the way round this is generally to pay a toy lots of money to paint the wall in advance. The actor can then stand two inches from the already finished graffiti shaking the tin meaningfully while looking thoughtful and needlessly spraying an already covered area before more unnecessary can shaking and acting thoughtful.
The other way round this is to have the hired graffiti artists to mask and hood up and do the graffiti himself, but I'm not even sure they did this, the handstyles are so shocking it must have been the actor doing it? Seriously stop putting an arrow on your K's
What the god damn fuck is this guy wearing? All the costume dpt had to do was spend a couple of hours down Waterloo tunnel to discover writers generally wear paint spotted old jeans and an old hooded top. But no, the costume dpt knew better and dressed this guy in some kind of disco cowboy outfit.
Why does he put his hands down his trousers? That was just weird.
Ok so pretty much EVERY script writer writing for bbc/itv dramas knows absolutely nothing about graffiti. What bothers me is you'd expect them, as a professional, to do a tiny bit of research. It would avoid lines such as 'I was out tagging with my crew' 'He had more talent than most of the taggers put together in London and 'I discovered him on the street doing an amazing piece of freestyle graffiti' Just get someone in for a couple of days to re write those killer lines.
Why did they cast a Stage School Rupert to play a writer? I'm not saying all writers talk cockney or patois but I've never met one (apart form P) who sounds like he eats Swan on a Sunday and rubbed shoulders with royalty. It would have been less offensive if he had just spoken how he does normally rather than sounding like a posh camp jafaican. At least there was some kind of uniformity with the casting, costume and script writing departments having no interest in authenticity.
Another one for the script writers, there is a graffiti supply shop, and 'Urban Art' was the best they could come up with?
Having said all that I suppose its a good thing that the only people who understand graffiti are still and will always ever be the writers themselves
Anyone feeling brave the link is below
Anyone feeling brave the link is below