Introduction

Hi, I'm Sean, a Media Studies student at Torquay Boys' Grammar School.

What is Media Studies for?

I think that Media is becoming an increasingly important subject in school, as the media itself is something that, nowadays, it's impossible to live without. It can entertain us through film, it can inform us through news, and so by studying it we are learning valuable things that we can apply to life outside of school.

Favourite Actors/Films

In no particular order, my current favourite actors are: Bryan Cranston, James Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Robert de Niro, Paul Whitehouse, Mark Heap and Kyle Mooney. Cranston, Hardy, Gosling and de Niro are four serious actors who I admire for the intensity of their performances in what I've seen by them. For example, Breaking Bad for  Cranston, Bronson for Hardy, Drive for Gosling and Taxi Driver for de Niro. At the other end of the scale, Whitehouse, Heap and Mooney are three actors who have built their careers on excelling at writing and performing in sketch comedy, which is something I am quite interested in. Kyle Mooney I admire particularly as he can be remarkably subtle - you'll find that you could watch the same sketch over and over again (whether it was his solo work or with his trio 'Good Neighbor') and notice something new every time.

Some of my favourite films of all time include: Drive, Akira, Taxi Driver, Ghost in the Shell, District 9, Alien, Shaun of the Dead, Little Miss Sunshine, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Napoleon Dynamite and Scott Pilgrim vs The World. You can probably tell that my favourite genres are sci-fi, thrillers and weird, quirky comedy.

Kyle Mooney

                                                                           

Napoleon Dynamite trailer