My Media Background So Far

My favourite film is Little Miss Sunshine (2006), directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and starring Steve Carell and Toni Collette. It is based around the story of a family trying to get their daughter to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant finals and so have to take a cross-country road trip together in their old and barely-working VW, culminating in the best dance scene on film ever. I think the film strikes a near perfect balance between comedy and real human drama, and by the end you are genuinely rooting for all the characters. The trailer is below.

My favourite male actor is Eddie Redmayne. This is because he is able to play a wide range of characters really well, from the challenging role of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, which he played very realistically to the equally difficult task of singing live for the role of Marius in Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, whilst managing to maintain the suspension of disbelief. 

Eddie Redmayne in Les Miserables

My favourite female actor is Imelda Staunton because she is able to switch seemingly effortlessly between the lovable and funny character of Hefina, who she plays in Pride and the harsh and unfair Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 

Imelda Staunton with Bill Nighy in Pride

My most memorable childhood film was Bob the Builder: A Christmas To Remember because I was obsessed with Bob the Builder as a child and so would watch this film at all times of the year. 

As a child, I read the magazine Aquila because it had a new theme every month and I enjoyed learning about some of the historical things the issues were based around. Also, it had really good jokes on the back page.

Nowadays I don't tend to read magazines or comics but if I do, it's either a Marvel comic as I enjoy how diverse they have become or Radio Times because I'm interested by the interviews and reviews in it.

The most memorable line from a film for me would be "I am sick to fucking death of poor people!" spoken by the character of Alistair Ryle, played by Sam Claflin, in The Riot Club. This is my most memorable line from a film because it was a shocking line that was a catalyst in the scene and wound the other characters up even more, which had dramatic implications. I don't agree with the line at all but I think it was acted incredibly well by Sam Claflin, as shown in the clip below. 

My most frequented website is YouTube because there are some very good short films and webseries such as Carmilla on there which I like to take inspiration from. Below is the trailer for a short called Septem directed by Hazel Hayes and uploaded onto YouTube, which has inspired me hugely to make my own short films. 

The film location which I would most like to live in is Avengers Tower, from The Avengers because it is full of cool technology and all my favourite Marvel characters. It's also built in the centre of New York, which would be very convenient if I were to need to pop to the shops or Broadway.  Finally, it is very spacious and would have stunning 360 views of New York, as well as easy access from the sky, which would be very useful if I needed to spot potential HYDRA trouble from afar.

The best opening to any film I've seen has to be the opening to Pride (2014). It was an upbeat opening that hooked me into the film. It also introduced the audience to the main character, and made him likeable, meaning the audience had sympathy for him from the offset.

The character of Mark Ashton in the opening of Pride

The gadget that I would most like to own would be a drone because it would enable to me to get aerial shots, which I think would improve my videos and films greatly as it adds a whole new potential point of view for the audience.

Ruby.