Alexander Michaels

About Alexander

Having graduated with a degree in Film and Television Studies, film is certainly the way I would like to go with my career. My passion originally was concept art for films and video games, where I completed GCSE Art and A Level Graphic Design to compliment this. Alongside Graphic Design, I took Film Studies as an A Level, where I discovered I enjoyed creating and writing story ideas more than drawing. Mathematics was the other A Level I took, but I like it when there is not necessarily a correct answer to a situation, with film providing a multitude of creative routes for me in this regard. During the initial COVID lockdowns, my A Level exams were cancelled, leaving me with very little to do to keep myself occupied. Realising via my A Level studies that film is the way I would like to go, I experimented with writing my own fantasy feature film screenplay. Imagining this on the big screen motivated me to continue writing this, resulting in a finished screenplay that I liked, but did not love – and over the years my positive feelings for it have decreased, which I understand is normal for writers. Through my university studies, I have learned more careful planning is needed to ensure how to reach your potential with a screenplay (as well as anything else you set your mind to). As a result, I have recently begun planning another version of the screenplay that I hope will catch the attention of agencies. Alternatively, I am interested in animation and am planning on exploring potential routes with this to create my stories for an online audience, or research into novel writing to publish my stories as books. I have little experience with animation currently, but anything possible in live-action (with a low budget) I am hoping to film to develop the skills I learned during my university practical projects. This generally is my ambition within film; I want to tell stories for audiences to follow, encouraging them to feel various emotions and get invested in these fictional worlds as forms of escapism from the real world.

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