Making a documentary. Fans needed.

As we’ve now all frantically snapped up our tickets for the 2012 tour and began with the excitement, I wanted to share an idea I kinda had which focusses around this. A McFly documentary. However centred solely round the fans rather than the band. From my blogs you may have read I’ve posted before discussing the lengths friends and I regularly go to for the band, I want to bring this to light via video. People often message me “oh you’re crazy” “how can you sleep on the streets?” “What do you love about them so much?” “Your sad” etc etc etc. And as much as I try to explain how Mcfly are so much more than a band, It often doesn’t translate across very well hence why I want to make a mini documentary focussing on us “hardcore” fans. Rather than simply portraying us as “stalkers” or “crazy” as people tend to stereotype, I want to explore the impact McFly have on our day-to-day lives and the alternative life style being a fan has provided to so many of us.

The documentary will be titled “McLife” and I’m basically looking to interview as many fans as possible discussing just what exactly the band means to them. I’m also looking for a few individuals to be the main focus of the short film whose stories really convey the significance this band have had on their lives and are comfortable sharing them. I’m still planning and conceptualizing the project right now, but I’ll be looking to start shooting the interview type scenes in the new year and then film through-out the entire March/April tour and have it mastered and up by the end of April.

The documentary will be heavily shared online and then passed on to the band themselves, so if you’re up for getting involved or want to let the boys know just what they mean to you, please feel free to message me! (Contact links on the side)

(Although I’m predominantly based in Manchester I’m regularly travelling around the country and can shoot anywhere , so don’t let location put you off. This is a documentary by fans, of the fans, for the fans – so the more people involved the merrier)

That’s basically all. Hopefully the project will be as fun in reality as it is in my head.

Joshua

(PS: McFly fans hit that re-blog button)  

Update: Throughout tour I want to shoot as many of you as possible each starting one sentence beginning with “McFly are….” then really try to convey what the band mean to you in that one sentence. So whether we’ve ever met or not and you wanna be involved, get your thinking caps on and drop me a msg with which dates you’re going and we can shoot something before the show at the venue!