Science Boys - Evaluation

During our planning for the Science Boys, we looked at scripts from The Big Bang Theroy to get inspiration for the type of film we were trying to create. Me and Kirsty soon realised that it was going to be a difficult task to create a script and this took up the bulk of our time. Also, due to casting issues our original script had to be altered as we only had two available 'science boys'. We wanted to create humour but also make it realistic for what British school is like, and this was great when we needed a location as we could easily use one of the school scicne labs. Contacted and arranging to use the space was easy, but we did have time restrictions on how long we could film there after school.

When it came to the shoot, I know see we should have done more planning. We took different shots from different angels and tried the actors lines many times to gt them right. What was difficult is we didn;t have proper actors and when doing a comedy this is vital as some of the lines didn't come off as they should have. We saw this later while editing and even cut out some lines which weren't working. During filming we had difficulty with the camera on getting its angle in the right position while it was on the tripod. Also, we had the difficulty of the humming noise in the scince lab which was really picked up by the camera. This also didn't give the film a crsip sound and later in editing we had to use backing music through then entire piece to try and make it sound more professional. In our final project, if we use a location like that again we will have to re-record our dialogue to ensure we get a crsipt sound that sounds as proffessional as the music.

We filmed most lines shot by shot to ensure our actors got them right and so we could switch between close-ups on each character. We tried a pan shot, which we used in the final film, to show the audience the setting and the relationship between the two characters.I feel if we continue with the concept of the Science Boys for our final project, we need to give our actors rehearsal time and even try and get ammateur actors as this would really help give the film its comedy edge. Also, the stroy-baord we created was too brief and when we came to filming we didn't take much notice of it which meant some of the shots we got weren't good enough. Also, when we come to filming again me and Kirsty now really know our strengths and weaknesses so we can take on roles that best suite us. While filming we were both doing a bit of everything and this sometimes made it confussiong for the actors who didn't know who to take direction from.

When we came to editing, we labeled all the shots so we know what we had to wrok with. We tried to get fast, clean cuts between each shot to provide the quick comedy but the light and sound is most of the shots didn't provide them with a good finish. We knew the music we wanted to use as it is used often in The Inbetweeners - which we also took inspiration from - so we were able to dowload it from musicaddict.com and cut it to suite out clip. The instumental at the beginning we knew would work best for our end sequence of freeze-frames of each of our characters so we cut the music for this. We wanted to use this project as an almost taster or trailer of Science Boys so really wanted to introduce the characters with these freeze-frames. However, in our final project we would like the gang of boys to be bigger so they can bounce of each other more.

Science Boys

Me and Kirsty created the idea of the 'Science Boys' and decided to trial it in this continuity project as we would like to do a better version for our final project. The conecpt is a group of science-nerds who are best friends but end up in detention.... The idea came from us wanted to create a British teen-movie that would be fun and we used inspiration from The Inbetweeners and The Big Bang Theory. So, here is the taster of Science Boys- it's a little rough and has taught us that A LOT of planning and some better acting will be required if we want to use this idea for our final project! However, enjoy.....