Our Expert

As part of our documentary we want to have psychological input to really get into the mind of twins and find out if there is any studies to show whether or not they can really feel each others pains and things like that. Me and Maddie both did Psychology at A-Level and we have been in contact with our psychology teacher to see if he knew of any studies which would help us and to also ask if he would be in our programme as our expert. He's just got back to me with a good article and to say that he would be more than happy to help us out and be in our film. We are so excited about this it feels like everything is starting to fall into place all we need to do know is find a 3rd set of twins.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dream-catcher/201106/twin-dreams

Our Logo

Now that we have a name for our series we need a logo. I have drawn out a few designs and tried making them myself on paint but they don't look very professional.

I have asked my friend Holly to help us make them look more professional as I know she is really good on Photoshop and she has also just gone to uni to do illistration. I have asked her to do a few different designs and try out a few of her own as well.

I sent her my ideas (the ones above) and I also gave her this brief.

"I have attached my drawings of the logo so you can get an idea of what we want it is quite simple. I have also attached some fonts we like and my attempts at doing the logo.

The name of the show is "Seeing It From Both Sides" and every episode is going to have a different title and that's what that "Double Trouble" bit is but for now we haven't finalised episode names so just leave that bit out for now.  

I just thought I would explain my drawings as well.

So the top one the stick men have their backs to the title and have their arms crossed.
The middle one the first stick man is peeking over the top of the S and the other one is hiding behind the end S.
And the last one the first stick man has his back to the S and and other one is sitting on top of the S.

The stick men just floating around are just extras nothing to do with the title but if you could make those for me as well that would be amazing. Again I shall explain. The boys are back to back arms crossed and the girls are hugging not kissing.

I was wondering if you could possibly do a couple of different versions. Like do all 3 with girls and then again with boys and also if you get time with black faces, white faces and maybe a smiley face just so that we can see what they look like. 

I'm not sure about the background I think maybe leave it plan or have like a lined paper effect or something.

Feel free to have fun with it and change anything if you want to or make up your own.

Oh I guess I should give you the idea of the show so that you can come up with your own if you want lol. The basic idea is to have an interview with the twins and then a fun challenge as well like who can eat the most crackers or an arm wrestle or something."

Biggest Twin Festival

The world's largest gathering of twins took place this weekend in Twinsburg, Ohio.

More than 2,000 sets of twins and multiples took part in the event, which started in 1976.

The gathering provides entertainment, food, a twins' parade, music, and contests for the "most alike" and "least alike".

The city of Twinsburg was founded in 1819 by the twins Moses and Aaron Wilcox.

They were identical twins who were also business partners. The Wilcoxes married two sisters, had the same number of children and died of the same ailment a few hours apart.

At the festival, 10 teams of researchers study the pool of twins available.

Identical twins have 100% matching DNA, offering scientists the opportunity to compare between genetically identical people.

The University of Virginia is focusing on marriages, family and relationships.

At the festival, the researchers say they can compare "apples and apples", and try to establish, for example, why is one identical twin is happy but the other is not.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh's Carlow University is studying how genetics affect our behaviour online.

How much time does each twin spend on social networks or shopping online? How many times they have been scammed? Is it nature or nurture?

Possible music options

We have deceided on The Velvet Undergroud's 'Im sticking with you,' as our opening music and credits.

But then we have also been thinking of other 'twin' 'sticking togeather' 'sister' 'brother' related songs. These are some of the few we came up with:

Bill Withers- Just The Two of Us

Hayley Mills- Lets Get Togeather

Al Green- Lets Stay Togeather

Sister Sledge- We Are Family

Eurtymics- Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

Episode 3 script

This is the first script for our documentary. It is for our third and final episode starring identical twins 42 year old Susan and Sarah from Chelmsford in Essex.


Episode 3 Breakdown

Treatment

Seeing It From Both Sides is a light hearted quirky documentary. In its 5x 3minute episodes, 'Seeing It From Both Sides,' explores our cultures fascination with identical twins by meeting three different sets of twins from different generation and walks of life. With its comedic elements and 'you tube' format, 'Seeing It From Both Sides also challenges our identical twins to compete in our 'wacky' games that deceides, 'Who is the best twin.'

All 3 sets of twins will take part in a self contained interview that will answer questions about twins that we have always wanted to know the answers to. These interviews will allow the audience to get to know each set of twins indivually and what makes them so different.

Throughout the documentary, 'Did You Know,' type facts will appear in a graphic at the bottom of the screen. This not only makes thedocumentary more interesting but educational aswell. To add to the educational part of the series, we will be having a 'proffessor of psychology,' type charater that will appear in all 3 episodes to inform the audience of the psychogy behind twins and the things they do (eg shared dreams.) Our character will be a psychology teacher with a quirky personality that will deliever this research in a lab coat in a science room.

'Seeing It From Both Sides.' is aimed at 15-35 year olds. This is the age that will react best to its youtube like format we have adopted for this documentary. The three episodes are targeted at people with interests in watching BBC 3 and Channel 4 docs. We have found that this is the particular age that watch these channels the most.

However the fast paced, graphic filled editing style of this documentary will make it enjoyable for any age to watch.

Some More Good Answers

 These are some more really good answers from the dad of 1 year old boy twins.

Some Really Good Answers

This is the response to my questions by the mother of twin 10 year old boys.

This is really helpful for our research as now have more of an idea of what its like to be the parent of twins.

This is Crazy!

This is one of the parents who contacted me. This story about her twins is crazy. 

Challenges

So for each of our 3x5 minutes episode, 1 minute will be dedicated to a challenge.

This is where we will put twin against twin to compete them in silly, fun, little challenges. These will mainly be food challenge. I did some research into different challenges that we could for our episodes and these are a few that I found:

This is the 'Chubby Bunny' challenge. This is where each competitor has to see how many marshmallows in their mouth. However each time they put in a marshmallow they must say 'Chubby Bunnies.'

The doughnut challenge is where you have to eat as many doughnuts as you can in 5 mins (we would obviously shorten the length for our one) without drinking or licking your lips at all.

This is the Cracker Challenge. As crackers are so dry it is near on impossible to eat more than 6 crackers in 1 minute. So the challenge is to see how many crackers  you can eat in one minute.

Another idea for a challenge is to have a mental one, to guess what the other twin is thinking and draw it. The twin could give one word clues. There has been lots of studies in the psychology of twins thinking the same thing at the same time as if the were 'psychic.'

Graphics

Today we discussed the use of graphics within in our documentary. As we want this doc to be fun and a lot like a youtube video (snappy and lots going on) we researched into some well known 'youtubers' to see what style they used with graphics.

This is Jack and Finn that we have contacted about being in our series. They do a lot of you tube videos but this certain video was a challenge:

In this video they have used graphics to tell the difference between the two twins. They are not used throughout just at the beginning so the audience can differentiate between the two.

From this research we have decided that we too want graphics for the twins names so that the audience can tell the difference. 

Another graphic that we want is to have 'Spot the Difference' circles on each of the twins when they are discussing what are the physical differences between them. For example:

As our documentary will be educational as well as fun, we have decided to have some fun facts for our viewers that will pop up at the bottom of the screen throughout the series. This fact will be next to a 'Did You Know?' graphic. This is a VERY rough idea of what we want the logo to look like:

For these different graphic ideas that we will need, we have decided the best idea will be to commission someone to make these for us. A few people we know are currently studying Graphic Design at uni so we are in negotiations with them at the moment to see if the are willing to help us. 

Casting a Voice Over

Me and Maddie have had an audition on Star Now for quite some time now trying to find a good voice over for our documentary. We have had quite a bit of interest.

Star Now Voice Over Audition

We have been keeping in contact with all of the applicants and we sent them all a rough script with a brief of how we wanted it to sound.

We have had a few applicants send back their auditions and so far they all sound really good and it is exciting to hear them read out our script. So far none of them fit perfectly but we are going to chase the rest of them up and hopefully find the perfect match.

Parents of Twins

So originally we wanted to get older twins who had spent their whole lives together and are now living in a nursing home together but we were having a bit of trouble trying to find them. We have decided to change it and have our first episode from the point of view of the parents of twins.

I added myself to a few twin Facebook groups including one which was called "Parents Of Identical Twins". I added a post and I got a lot of interest on it.

 

I made contact with a few of the parents who replied to my post and I have asked them to answer these questions.

 Questions To Ask Parents

1. Do twins run in your family?
2. How did you feel when you knew you were expecting twins?
3. What was the birth like?
4. How far apart where the births?
5. How did you choose their names? Was it a theme? Do they rhyme?
6. Can you tell them apart? How?
7. Do you ever get them mixed up?
8. Do they have different personalities?
9. Do you dress them the same?
10. Do they have any other siblings? If so how do they and the twins get on?
11. Has anything spooky happened like them doing exactly the same thing at the same time or reacting to the other ones pain?
12. When they are older will you try and keep them together or encourage them to be individual?
13. How do you spread you love and attention evenly?
14. Do your twins get on?

I'm hoping that I get a good response but for now I will just sit and wait.

Selina and Kereen's Answers

Selina and Kereen are a set of 18 year old twins from London who we found on Star Now. We sent them our questions and they wrote down their answers and sent them back to us. Here's their answers to our questions.

Questions for Twins - Selina and Kereen

Skype interview with Sue and Sarah

Today we had a Skype interview with a set of 42 year old twins from Chelmsford who we found on Star Now. We really really liked them, they were good talkers they had a really good relationship with each other and they just seemed perfect for our documentary. Here is the write up of the interview we had with them.

Questions to Ask Twins - Sue and Sarah

Some More Really Good Answers

These answers are from a mum of 9 year old girl twins. She has elaborated alot which is brilliant.

Cherie-Duran

Skype Interview

We have just set up our first Skype interview for our Identical; Susan Fordham and her twin. We contacted these twins through our star now account and they seem really happy to be involved. This Skype interview is just to get to know them  a bit more and ask some questions that we could use in our documentary. They are 42 years old and live in Chelmsford. So logistically it is a viable and easy enough place for us to get to if we were to cast them as one of the sets of twins.

This interview will take place after our lecture tomorrow at 5pm.

Sue's Star Now Account