Music & Voice-Over

Kirsty found the music we used for 'Science Boys'. It is a cover fo the Arctic Moneky's song Mardy Bum but it is just the instromental we got from YouTube which someone had recorded. Having just an instromental meant that the voice-over would work more effectively over the top as it wouldn't be a clash of words. Also however, it is much harder to find a cover which we could use to not break copyright laws which is actually effective enough as the original. Therefore, the instumental worked really well for us. We wanted to use a British band's music becasue our film is about British teenagers and its main audience will be British teenagers. Therefore the msuic would ahve to appeal to teenagers and be very current which we feel the Artci Moneky's work is. Also, from our research The Inbetweeners and its movie use a lot of ArcticMoneky tacks so we knew it would fit with our teen-comedy drama.

Originally our voice-over was going to be the character Matt, then we changed it to be the character Ashley who was the dominating leader character. However, when we began recording our initla voice-over the teenage voice we used from Sam Humby didn't sound effective enough or funny enough. Also, when Sam's voice was recorded it sounded much younger and we didn't think it fit the character Ashley. Micahel Wilson who plays Ashley was unavailable to record a voice-over so we had to rethink our original plan. Instead, with inspiration from Mr Earl, we decided to do a voice-over which was the character Ashely looking back on his school life and his school friends. We had to of course re-write the script and then asked Mr Earl if he woould record it for us. When editing we reduced some of the script so it would fit better with the length of each character montage clip. However, by having the voice-over being an adult looking back at school we can also appeal to the adult/parent audience who can get humour from thinking of their school days and relating to the film that way.

Overall, I think the voice-over and music really finish 'Science Boys' off anf when compared to our rough-cut which had no sound seems a 100% more professional and fits with the genre. I'm very pleased with the music we used and the voice-over scipt and the way it was said.