Our final piece, Science Boys, uses the characteristics of the teen comedy/drama genre by using obvious humour which appeals to a teen audience. You don’t have to think too hard when watching Science Boys to understand the humour and the characters which is what makes it part of this teen genre. Also, stereotypical characters are used which are exaggerated forms of people the audience can hopefully relate too from their own school experiences which adds to the humour but is also a convention of the genre. In the Inbetweeners Movie you have a character that thinks/wants to be cool, a dopey one, a clever one etc and in Science Boys we also tried to adopt these common teen stereotypes associated with a group of ‘misfits’; we have the ‘wannabe’, the overly-nerdy one, the dopey clumsy one and then the group leader. We also included the freeze-frames with edited on names and personality scores which isn’t automatically associated with our teen comedy/drama genre but effects similar to this can be seen in films such as Scott Pilgrim VS the World and of course Trainspotting which gives our film and edge and makes it stand out against other ones. We wanted to do this as our story is character driven so it was important the audience immediately understood the characters so they could build a relationship and care about them as the film progresses. The way in which Science Boys challenges the typical teen comedy/drama genre is that so many teen movies are set in America about American teenagers and their experiences and humour is different to British teenagers. As there has been the recent success of the Inbetweeners Movie in Europe it shows that this may soon be a typical aspect of the teen genre for it to be based around British teenagers.
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