1st shoot done

Susan Fordham and Sarah Woodward

 So last night we filmed episode three of Seeing It From Both Sides with Susan and Sarah, our 40 year old twins. Hennie, Dean and I headed to essex for the shoot that took place in Sues home. When we arrived we thought the lighting was good but when we turned on the cameras we realised it was far too dark. Luckily we had one lighting kit with us so we were able to set that up to create some really nice light.

The interview went really well with all questions being answered in a really good and interesting way. The challenges were fun and we decided to do three challenges in the end; word association, drawing and the cracker challenge.  The results of these challenges proved to us some twintuition so we were really pleased with it!

So it is just on with the edit now!

Hennie setting up for the interview

One had a Gastric Bypass and the Other Didn't

This is an article about two over weight identical twins where one had a gastric bypass surgery on the NHS and lost 11 stone and the other is still over weight. It is interesting to see how it changes their relationship.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/337811/How-shedding-11-stone-means-that-I-no-longer-have-an-identical-twin

School Twin Research

Today I spoke to my mum, who is head of special education at a primary school, about her schools policy on twins when twins join a school. She said that what is usually done is a meeting is set up with the parents to discuss what will be best for that specific set of twins. She has also said, that was interesting,if twins are put togeather in the same class it usually hinders there social development not learning. This is because Bedonwell Junior School found that there is usually a dominent twin who will speak out and answer for the less dominent twin therefore hindering twin number twos social learning. They have found no differenec in educational development when considering splitting up twins or keeping them togeather.

Twins UK

This is a website all about twin research.

http://www.twinsuk.ac.uk/

Twin Days

This is a link to a video on the BBC website about the worlds biggest twin festival in Ohio. It has got some good psychological points.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19151969

Having a Genetic Copy

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/lifestyle/arts/a-twin-take-on-imitation-artwork-1-4156226

This is a very good article about a Radio 4 programme “DOES an original work of art have more value than a copy...and if so, why?” Twins Lindsey and Karen joined in the discussion and this is what they had to say.

“Our part in it was to discuss what it is like to have a genetic copy of yourself, do you feel the same and what are your differences?”

But what was it like as a twin being involved in a discussion about ‘copies’?

Karen said: “We don’t get offended if people mix us 
up and we don’t feel any less individual if people mix us up, but then we don’t know any different. I look at Lindsey and it is like looking in a mirror.

“We don’t feel we have to go out of our way to be the same or different. We have similar hair but that is the way we feel our hair suits us. We might look more different if we were striving for individuality but we don’t feel any less of a person because there is someone very similar to us either.”

Photographer Martin Schoeller Searches For The Unique In Identical Twins

Freak Like Me

We want our documentary to be quite fun and modern and fit in well with the other documentaries on BBC 3. This is a documentary on BBC 3 called Freak Like Me it is presented by Russel Kane and it is about people with odd habits.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vls5z

Episode 3- Susan and Sarah- Shooting Script

Episode 3 Shooting Script

Preparation for our 1st shoot

So our 1st shoot has been arranged, Hennie and I will be going to Chelmsford, Essex on Sunday at 4.30 to film our 1st set of twins Susan and Sarah.

The filming will include intevriew, sequences and challenges.

Equipment
2 Sony XD cams
2 Tripods
Boom pole
Light set

Crew
Hennie
Dean- Sound
Maddie

For the interview we will set the cameras up on a tight 2 shot of Susan and Sarah and a diaganol 2 shot. These cameras will not move during the interview but will be manned by one of to make sure they are both always in shot.

We will also be getting some shots of rostrum of archive pictures that the twins have.

Shot list for the challenge

Mid Shot of food to set up the challenge
2 shot of twins completing challenge
Mid shot of food during challenge- out of focus.

We will brief Susan and Sarah throughly before filming that we want this inteview to be as fun and as energetic as possible.