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Film Treatment

I plan for my film to be a documentary following the rise to fame of British boy band, ‘The Wanted’ rather than a fictional film. I think that it would sell extremely well as they have a huge fan base, also known as The TWFanmily.  They are not only popular in the UK but places such as Singapore, Germany and Japan. Their first and second singles, All Time Low and Heart Vacancy charted at Number 1 and 2 in the UK, they are going from strength to strength as their fan base grows bigger and bigger on a daily basis. A week after the second single came the release of their first album titled ‘The Wanted’ which got to number 4 in the UK album chart.  For a relatively unknown band this is quite an achievement. Their first single, ‘All Time Low,’ now has almost 10 million views on YouTube.

The Boys are from England and Ireland. The eldest two of The WANTED are from the North-West of England both Tom and Max are from Greater Manchester, Bolton and Salford to be precise. Jay is from Nottingham in the East Midlands; Nathan is the only one from the South West region of England as he is from Gloucester. Siva is the Irish band member as he is from Dublin. They are from normal working class backgrounds, and Siva was the only one making a break but not in music, he was a model with his twin brother Kumar. You might recognise Max from the boy band Avenue who made it to the live shows of X Factor(British Talent Contest) but then got kicked off for having a manager.

The final 10 people that had been whittled down from 5000 people included two of Siva’s brothers. They were formed in 2009 and it was Jayne Collins who put them together from a mass audition process, she is the lady who is known for singing ‘No turning back’, she starred on Baywatch and also put massive girl group The Saturdays together. They soon started to gel as soon as they heard All Time Low as that was the sound they wanted to make not that of your typical boy band where the whole album sounds the same, they wrote about 50% of their album and then people such as Taio Cruz, Guy Chambers and Steve Mac also wrote and produced some of the tracks. Ed Drewett, the man who sang on Professor Green’s I Need You Tonight co-wrote All Time Low with Steve Mac and Wayne Hector.

Geffen the boys record label took a big chance on the boys recording their album before even releasing a song, but there was a lot of belief in the 5 young lads and they have since delivered so therefore Geffen’s Faith in them paid off. In February 2011they confirmed they had been chosen to do the 2011 official comic relief single ‘Gold Forever’ which charted at number 1 on downloads and number 3 on physical copies that is a huge success and for such an amazing cause. They now have a staggering 27 million upload views on YouTube and growing likes on Facebook and follows on Twitter both as a group and individual ones. 

I think that with them being chosen to release the single for the cause has helped me choose Richard Curtis as the director as he is British and is one of the founders of comic relief, he is the man who directed Love Actually and he wrote Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill, these films are all funded Working Title who are a British production company so they have worked together with Curtis before. He tends to do comedies so with The WANTED’s typical boyish charms and from watching their WantedWednesday flip video’s they upload each Wednesday they all seem to be very genuine down to earth funny lads with a good sense of humour, laughing at each other and themselves. They seem to fit hand and hand with Richard Curtis.

I think that the film should start with early archive footage that their parents have taken, not too much being brief by showing pictures and clips just to get a drift of what sort of background they are from and what sort of avenues they grew up on. In this part of the film I would have more of an interview with their parent/parents than archive footage as I can only use 5% of that. I have researched that some of them don’t have contact with a parent as they have passed away, so just the necessary most important people that have brought them up. From there I would have a big jump in age some bigger than others and carry on with an interview with them about Secondary school and have siblings talking as they all have at least one brother or sister.

The way I would like the middle of the documentary to go would be from the Audition process to them on the road to their first release and in that I would have recorded them at shows like This Morning and GMTV. On the radio tour they did I would have filmed them at relevant cities on there like Manchester, Bolton, Gloucester and Nottingham to see how their home towns reacted to there new found fame.

The end will start with them arriving at radio one at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening the 1st of August 2010 when they had done all that was physically possibly to get them into at least the top 10. Nathan thought that they had been set up and they were number 41 and was going to get sent home at 7pm being told sorry lads you didn’t make the top 40. They were at BBC studio and they were on webcam to many girls with there fingers crossed, and they did it they got to number 1 and they went absolutely mental in the studio. Girls flooded social networking sites as not only the boys dreams had come true but the TWFanmily had began to make a movement with the boys. The next bit of the film could include interviews with the hardcore ‘The WANTED’ fans who age from 8 to 28 as there are the little cuties that like them to the older girls who shouldn’t like them but they are a guilty pleasure or not so guilty in many fans cases! There is even a twitter account called The Wanted Cougars for the older generation of The WANTED fans. Then there was the release of their book The Wanted: Our story, Our Way which sold off the shelves like hot cakes, showing one or two of the signings with  Fans screaming and shouting for their favourite member.

The penultimate bit could jump 6 months to them being told that their single has been chosen to be the Comic relief official single and performing it on the night, With the film right at the end there could be a shot of the boys families together saying how proud of the boys they are just going to start there first headline tour. The final scene can be of The WANTED’s thank you to there friends, family and fanmily.

       
I believe that my film is a UK Film as it has British Actors, British Director and Set in Britain just to name a few things.

Budget

Microphone rental - £420 a day

Camera rental - £550 a day

Light rental - £95 a day

DV tape stock - £100

Wardrobe - I would like them to wear stuff they would every day to give a homely relaxed feel to the film.

Makeup - £200 a day

Catering - contacted company for a qoute

Toilets - £200 a day

Cabins - contacted company for a qoute

Petty cash £750

Transport for equipment and personnel £90,000
DV tape stock £100
Props (Sofa, Table, Chairs) - £1500

Time Consumption for:
Filming
Interviews - 6 days
Gigs and Festivals - 3 days
Radio 1, magazines and papers- 2 days
Planning for tour and deciding songs - 4 days
Touring - 2 days (so if one day goes wrong the next is for back up, preferably in Manchester as there will be 2 nights at the same place and 2 of the members are from there.)

Editing
Editing should only take 2 weeks as I want it to be as natural as possible.