Obviously Science Boys represents the social group of teenagers and specifically ‘nerdy’ teenagers. The typical stereotypes of nerds are used in Science Boys but not to mock the characters but to make it clear who they are by exaggerating ordinary traits you might find in a ‘nerdy’ person. The boys are represented to be outcast as you can see from their individual sections that they don’t have much in common, apart from a love for science, that is why they have had to come together as friends. We tried to represent this by not having them do the stereotypical cool thing like playing football or chatting up girls etc. Our characters are studying and tripping over and trying to draw crude things in classrooms to be what they believe to be cool. Hopefully this adds to the humour for the audience. However the way we represent teenagers isn’t a negative portrayal like is common now. The ‘thug’ culture surrounding teenagers now portrays them to be violet and rude and untrustworthy which isn’t a fair portrayal. Films can be solely based around this misconception now (such as Eden Lake ) whereas Science Boys really portrays teenagers, especially teen boys, to be harmless and actually easier to relate to than some adults may think. Also by using the adult version of the character Ashley to narrate the film again shows that everyone was once a teenager hopefully showing these stereotypes that teenagers are all yobs is in fact not really true.
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