Intro Blog A-Level

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    I am Alex Lane Rosenblum. I am 17 years old and come from Fort Lauderdale Florida. My interests include music, biking, driving, watching movies, seeing family and friends, and collecting vinyl records and cassettes. My favorite genre of film is probably comedy or drama. Recently, I saw "Natural Born Killers" directed by Oliver Stone, and rewatched "A Clockwork Orange," directed by Stanley Kubrick. "A Clockwork Orange" appeals to me now because I really understand the movie. When I first saw the movie around middle school, I didn't understand that. This time around, I could see Kubrick's vision, and really grasped the point of the story he was trying to tell. I really like that "Natural Born Killers" is such a strange film. I loved seeing Woody Harrelson while younger and really appreciated the way the movie looked and felt. Additionally, the plot is pretty interesting, and I was very happy to grasp the point of the movie on the first go around. I wanted to take A-Level AICE media studies for a plethora of reasons. Number one being that I appreciate film and want to further my understanding about it at its bare bones. Number two is because I thoroughly enjoyed AS Level, and am excited to build on what I learned there. Since last year, I've only fallen more in love with film. making an effort to watch 10 films a month and catalog them on a letterboxd account. So far, I've logged hundreds of films. I really like older movies and films, and genuinely appreciate the potentially added effort required to produce one, without modern capabilities for sfx and the likes. I'm very excited to do my 5-minute feature film. Using what I learned last year and everything I've learned from watching even more films since, I plan to have improved greatly since last year.


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