Freak

Freak was a drama series on Myspace a couple of years ago. I know it's not a documentary series but I thought it would be good for us to have a look at to see how a web series is put together and marketed.

Here's the advert for the series.

Freak - Trailer

Freak:P". | Myspace Video
http://www.myspace.com/video/freak

Gillette Twin Challenges

I have just been having a look on Youtube and I have found some videos of Georgio and Dino from the Only Way is Essex taking part in head to head challenges. I have again downloaded them so that I can watch them with Maddie and hopefully this will give us further inspiration for our challenges in our own doc.

Twin Tag

My sister is a Youtube addict and anything you need to find on Youtube she will know where to find it. When me and Maddie told her about our Twin documentary and how we wanted to ask the twins questions on life as a twin she said "Oh you should defo check out twin tags on youtube".

Twin tags are videos of twins answering questions about being twins. I typed twin tag into Youtube and thousands of videos came up. I have downloaded a couple of them to watch with Maddie to help us get some more of an idea about what kind of answers we can expect from the twins.

 

Mac Twins Blog

I have looked through the whole of the twins blog just to get a better understanding of what they do. I learnt alot about the girls and their careers and they also introduced me to some undiscovered musical talent with their tune of the week feature.

The girls have done media coverage for alot of the UKs biggest events including the MOBOs and the Brits. Last October they also go the chance to go to Tennessee to cover the Jack Daniels Birthday Gig for Verge magazine.

As well as presenting and interviewing the girls also DJ and Host alot of different club nights in London as well as Alana having a performance school in Scotland and Lisa being a successful theatre produce and so to say these girls are busy is an understatement.

And when their not doing that they help host a weekly radio show, model and make awareness for causes they are passionate about such as mental health.

With all this going on they also find time to train with their personal trainer Della on a regular basis, Alana spent 6 days last month on a boat with 40 other youngsters to help deliver the Olympic torch to Dover and the girls are also training for a half marathon which takes place next month.

After reading their blog and realising how much the girls actually day it has made me realise that we are really lucky to have them as part of our documentary and now I just hope that their available dates and our available dates match up.

Fingers Crossed!

http://themactwins.com/blog/

The Mac Twin Interview Research

This time the girls were being the interviewees rather than the interviewers for a change.

This one was for #11 a youth theatre broadcaster

http://11online.co.uk/2012/01/28/outed-the-mac-twins/

 

and this one was for Lilly Lovelett a fashion website.

http://lillylovelett.com/blog/2011/09/29/a-moment-with-the-mac-twins/

Finn and Jack Links

These are links to Finn and Jacks Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Youtube pages.

http://finnharries.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151193348413832.503850.517988831#!/finnharries
http://www.facebook.com/finnharries#!/jack.harries1
http://twitter.com/FinnHarries
http://www.youtube.com/user/JacksGap

Looks Like The Mac Twins Have Answered a Few of Our Questions Already

This is the Lisa and Alana's first post for the Huffington Post and it seems they have answered some of our questions for us already which is a bonus.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/the-mac-twins/sorry-to-ask-are-you-twin_b_1821407.html

Sorry to Ask, Are You Twins?

Posted: 23/08/2012 00:00

 

For our very first Huffington Post blog, as an introduction, we thought we'd highlight and quell all the misconceptions about twins, specifically blonde, identical twins (as they will no doubt be peppered throughout our future posts too!).

"Are you the female Jedward?" Has been the most frequent quip of late. Okay, we understand the Celtic, blonde, double faced logic of it all and the the inevitable urge to compare us to an already manufactured product (Justin Bieber Vs Conor Maynard, Coke Vs Pepsi etc.), but it really is becoming rather tedious. If comparison is really necessary then at least trial us on our singing efforts or our ability to gel our hair vertically.

Here we've picked the top 5 questions we're repeatedly been asked and outlined our stock 'party line' reply:

1. Do you feel each others pain? Erm no, only when we're inflicting it on each other. Twins that claim they do are trying to claim a bob or two from a 'real life' magazine. However Lisa did once pretend she could feel it when Alana broke her arm for attention. Does that count?!

2. How long can you be separated for? Surprisingly if we spend some time apart we do not oxidise and shrivel into tiny balls. We were apart for 5 years, with separate careers and it truly was the best years of our lives. On saying that, our frequency of 'whatsapp' messages to one another, even when only a wall separates us, would perhaps alarm some people.

3. Do you fight over/share boys? Well despite our tastes being COMPLETELY opposite and thinking that fighting over respective partners is generally pretty futile in anyone's case, WE ARE OUR OWN PERSON. We shared a womb, yes, we share faces, yes, we tend to share opinions, but the person we want to spend the rest of our lives with/date - most definitely not. However if Ryan Gosling decided to trot into our lives...

4. Who is the good twin and who is the evil twin? We are not warlocks, one of us does not have to spawn from the underworld whilst the other floated in from a cloud. Like the average human being, we BOTH equally teeter on the edge of good and evil. However we did used to 'take turns' in misbehaviour according to Mother Mac, but presumably that was through default/common sense rather than satanic possession.

5. Can I have a threesome? Ah the glittering finale question and rather worryingly the most frequent of them all. Our polished and rehearsed retort proceeds as follows:

Man - "Can I have a threesome?"

Mac Twins - "Do you have a brother or sister?"

Man - "Yes"

Mac Twins - "Do you wish to bring them along too to join in?"

Man - *silence, sheepish sulk off*

As a disclaimer we should probably add that there are twins that feel each other's pain, can't bear to be separated, share boyfriends, adopt good and evil roles and quite possibly have threesomes, but they are the exception, not the rule. Glad we cleared that up. Now off to our shared bedroom to sort our shared wardrobe, to use our shared laptop and share todays thoughts.

The Mac Twins

Alana and Lisa Macfarlane are identical twins from Scotland. They are the UKs hottest new presenters, they have covered some of the UKs biggest music events including Wireless festival and the Brits as well as interviewing some of the most well known artists such as Ed Sheeren and Catherine Jenkins. As well as presenting and DJing on a regular basis they also both dabble in acting and modelling as well as Alana running her own performance school in Scotland.

http://themactwins.com/blog/

 

 

From what we have found out the girls are obviously very busy people juggling their careers and personal life as well as taking part in a half marathon in October. We are going to have to try and fit our scheduling around them as they are amazing characters and it would be too good an opportunity to pass up on if we didn't. The girls sound very keen and we are quite flexible at the moment so it shouldn't be a problem.

Deadlines

We have made ourselves a calendar and set ourselves deadlines of when we want certain things done and what time we are going to dedicate to filming and editing. This is the calender so far but things may change once we have booked in contributors to be filmed.

Woooooooo Whoooooooo !!!!

Today we received an email from The Mac Twins management saying that the girls are really interested in our project. All we need to do know is set up a meeting so that we can talk the girls through the project more and also talk locations and then we are ready for scripting and setting a date for filming.

This news has really given us the lift we needed, we were beginning to panic about the lack of good characters. We are so excited about this project now!

Pitch draft

Today I have been working on the 25 word pitch for 'Seeing It From Both Sides.' Ive found this harder than I remember so have been trying a few different ones to see which one sounds the best. This is the pitch I feel works the best but still needs work on it;

 'Seeing It From Both Sides' is a 3 part documentry that explores the bonds and relationships between identical twins and puts three sets of twins to the test in this quirky fun series.

It is over the normal word count, so I will work on making it shorter and catchier.

Long Story Short

This is a blog set up by a man called Larry Horowitz he has made a series of personal history documentaries including this one on 77 year old identical twins Iris and Frances talking about their life history and current events.


http://longstoryshort.com/the_twins.php

Star Now Update

We have searched through all of the twins on Star Now and have emailed most of them. We have got alot of interested and now we just have to start auditioning them. We have started to ask if people would be interested in doing a Youtube video as an audition just so that we can get to know their personalities and relationship better and get an idea of how they would answer the questions in the actual doc.

We have also had alot of interest for the voiceover role. We are going to make a rough voice over script for auditions and asked the applicants to make a demo of that so that we can see if they sound right for the part as voiceover in our doc.

I'm really excited about this project now, it feels like its starting to come together :-)

Emailing The Mac and Frenchy Twins

I have emailed the Mac twins Manager (info@thehubentertainment.com) to ask if this would be a project the girls would be interested in. I have also emailed the Frenchy twins to see if they would be interested (thefrenchytwins@yahoo.com). And so all I need to do know is wait for a response.

Casting

This is a link to a blog Simon did about casting last year.

UCA Broadcast Media - Casting