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."

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

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.

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. 

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.

Challenge Ideas

We want the challenges to be quite simple and just a bit of fun nothing to serious.

Here are a few ideas we have come up with already:

1. A game of Snap
2. A game of Chess/Drafts
3. Who can hula hoop the longest
4. Who can pogo the longest
5. Who can fit the most marshmallows in their mouth
6. Who can keep a fruit pastel in their mouth the longest
7. Who can hold their breath the longest
8. Who can eat the most crackers in a minute
9. Who can stand the hottest chilli the best
10. Cinnamon challenge
11. Biscuit dunk challenge
12. Sumo wrestle
13. Thumb war
14. Rock, paper, scissors
15. Arm wrestle

Question Ideas

Questions To Ask Twins

1.      How identical are you?

2.      Who’s the older twin?

3.      What was life like growing up?

4.      Were you dressed the same?

5.      Were you encouraged to be individual or treated as one?

6.      Did you have the same friends at school? Were you in the same classes?

7.      Were you ever bullied for being twins?

8.      Did you go through puberty at the same time?

9.      Have you had relationships?

10.  Does or has your bond ever ruined relationships?

11.  Is there ever any jealousy?

12.  Do you play on being twins for attention?

13.  Have you ever switched places? Played tricks on people?

14.  Do you ever spend time apart?

15.  Are you more confident together than you are on your own?

16.  Are you competitive?

17.  Do you ever argue?

18.  Is it frustrating being a twin?

19.  Do you speak in unison? Do you have twin intuition? Can you tell what the other one is thinking?

20.  If one of you is in pain can the other feel it?

21.  Can you imagine not being a twin?

Ideas For Series Name

We have decided that we are going to have an overall series name but we will also have titles for each episode. We can't start thinking about the titles for the individual episodes until we know who we are interviewing and what the episode is mainly about. We have started thinking about names for the series though and these are the ones we have come up with so far.

1. We first met when we shared a womb
2. Womb mates
3. Seeing it from the other side
4. Its not a shame to be the same
5. Two sides to every story
6. Born with a life partner
7. 2 in 1
8. Mirror Image
9. Same birthday different people
10. EnTWINed

We are going to keep brainstorming and decide on our favourite on Sunday.

Initial Idea

Me and Maddie are obsessed with twins and have been developing this idea for about 2 years now.

Our initial idea was to have a show called "Twin Win", were we would set different challenges for the twins to compete against each other in so that the winner would be crowned the best twin. We wanted to pitch this as our As Live idea but as we could not pitch together we decided that neither of us were allowed to use the idea and to save it for our major project instead.

We began to develop our idea and realised that maybe a twin documentary would be better and more logical to do as we would be able to include more content.

We are going to develop this idea and try and work out exactly what we want to show our audience.