Thursday 24 September 2009
Wednesday 23 September 2009
All About Me
My name is Ben Wormald; I am 16 I go to CNS sixth form in Norwich.
I’ve been going to CNS for four years now, before that I went to Bignold School for first school and the first year of middle school. Then in year 5 I lived in New Zealand for a year which I loved, we lived in Auckland on the north island but in the holidays we travelled the whole length of the two islands. After I came back from New Zealand I went to Avenues school. For my later years at CNS high school I took art, history and business studies. In my GCSE’s I got 6B’s 3C’s and 2D’s. I got B’s in English lit, History, CBV, Art, Graphics and Science, I got C’s in English, Science (ad) and Maths, and my D’s were in ICT and Business studies. The other subjects I am doing for AS level are Politics & Government, History and Photography.
My main hobbies are meeting up with mates and doing fun things. I also do a bit of mountain biking which takes up far too much of my life. I also enjoy Photography which works well with my other hobby, mountain biking. I have also just started to play for a football team after not touching a football for 4 years! I also enjoy skiing in the winter. But my main hobby is music. I love anything about it. I go to gigs, festivals and just listening to music on my Ipod.
Being a music lover I also read lots of music magazines. My main one that I read is NME but I also read Q. Other magazines that I read include MBUK which is a mountain biking magazine. I also read Ride BMX which is an arty BMX magazine. My parents also subscribe to The Week that I read if it’s lying around the house. In the winter months I also read a skiing magazine.
The radio stations I listen to are basically just radio 1. But not daytime stuff apart from scoot mills because he’s hilarious. I find that the daytime music on radio 1 is pretty rubbish, that’s why I love listening to Zane Lowe. I also listen to Future Radio on a Monday night when my friend Isabel Neil (who is doing media in the year above) is on. I think Chris Moyles is an idiot.
As I said in my hobby’s I love music, I listen to mainly secular music, Such as Indie or other similar genres. I’ve been to Latitude festival two years running and I went to underage festival this summer for the first time which was fun. I mainly explore new music on the internet but I buy CD’s from record shops such as Soundclash in Norwich, but like most teenagers these days I do occasionally download music illegally, but only when I have no money. My favourite gig I have ever been to was Bloc Party at London Olympia, or Gallows at the Queen Charlotte pub in Norwich. I could not pick a favourite album/band because I like too much, id just keep changing my mind!
I don’t play to many video games but I have a PS2 lurking around somewhere. And when I do play it I play on downhill domination which is a downhill mountain bike game basically like SSX but with bikes. It’s so addictive. When I go round a mate’s house I normally play “Call of Duty Modern Warfare” it’s far better than the new COD. But I can’t be bothered to save up for a PS3/XBOX.
In my opinion new technology can be a help and a hindrance. Recent inventions such as the MP3 player have helped music be portable and convenient, but I also think that after the introduction of MP3 player’s people have stopped listening to albums as a whole, this was the way the artist intended it to be listened to rather than just individual songs. The same problem is with movies, the best way to experience a movie is at a cinema but the introduction of mobile phones that play movies takes away most of the experience of watching a movie. The only technology that I love is the simple mobile phone, ones that do the task of phoning and receiving texts (and maybe play the odd game of snake 2).
I also love television. My favourite channels are anything on the BBC, channel 4 and film 4. I like watching documentaries, some factual programs, some BBC dramas and of course the usual comedy on the BBC. I hate adverts, there just really annoying and get in the way of the enjoyment of the program. My top 5 television programs are (in no particular order) Top Gear, Mock the Week, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, old Skins and Futurerama.
I love film, I like any genre of film really. My top 5 films (in no particular order) are Pulp Fiction, Control, Trainspotting, The Beach and Slumdog Millionaire. As you can see I think Danny Boyle is genius. I also think that Control which is about Ian Curtis (lead singer of The Joy Division) is beautifully filmed, even if it does show that he wasn’t a very nice man it leaves you speechless at the end. The rest of my top ten is (in no particular order) Fight Club, Saving Private Ryan, Napoleon Dynamite, Borat and Green Mile. Like I said earlier on the best place to see a movie is at the cinema, personally I like going to see a movie on my own unless it’s a comedy when it’s much better to see it with as big as possible group of friends.
The reason I chose media studies is because everyone is surrounded by media constantly so you might as well embrace it and learn about it, also I love film and music so I guess I may want a job in one of industries.
I’ve been going to CNS for four years now, before that I went to Bignold School for first school and the first year of middle school. Then in year 5 I lived in New Zealand for a year which I loved, we lived in Auckland on the north island but in the holidays we travelled the whole length of the two islands. After I came back from New Zealand I went to Avenues school. For my later years at CNS high school I took art, history and business studies. In my GCSE’s I got 6B’s 3C’s and 2D’s. I got B’s in English lit, History, CBV, Art, Graphics and Science, I got C’s in English, Science (ad) and Maths, and my D’s were in ICT and Business studies. The other subjects I am doing for AS level are Politics & Government, History and Photography.
My main hobbies are meeting up with mates and doing fun things. I also do a bit of mountain biking which takes up far too much of my life. I also enjoy Photography which works well with my other hobby, mountain biking. I have also just started to play for a football team after not touching a football for 4 years! I also enjoy skiing in the winter. But my main hobby is music. I love anything about it. I go to gigs, festivals and just listening to music on my Ipod.
Being a music lover I also read lots of music magazines. My main one that I read is NME but I also read Q. Other magazines that I read include MBUK which is a mountain biking magazine. I also read Ride BMX which is an arty BMX magazine. My parents also subscribe to The Week that I read if it’s lying around the house. In the winter months I also read a skiing magazine.
The radio stations I listen to are basically just radio 1. But not daytime stuff apart from scoot mills because he’s hilarious. I find that the daytime music on radio 1 is pretty rubbish, that’s why I love listening to Zane Lowe. I also listen to Future Radio on a Monday night when my friend Isabel Neil (who is doing media in the year above) is on. I think Chris Moyles is an idiot.
As I said in my hobby’s I love music, I listen to mainly secular music, Such as Indie or other similar genres. I’ve been to Latitude festival two years running and I went to underage festival this summer for the first time which was fun. I mainly explore new music on the internet but I buy CD’s from record shops such as Soundclash in Norwich, but like most teenagers these days I do occasionally download music illegally, but only when I have no money. My favourite gig I have ever been to was Bloc Party at London Olympia, or Gallows at the Queen Charlotte pub in Norwich. I could not pick a favourite album/band because I like too much, id just keep changing my mind!
I don’t play to many video games but I have a PS2 lurking around somewhere. And when I do play it I play on downhill domination which is a downhill mountain bike game basically like SSX but with bikes. It’s so addictive. When I go round a mate’s house I normally play “Call of Duty Modern Warfare” it’s far better than the new COD. But I can’t be bothered to save up for a PS3/XBOX.
In my opinion new technology can be a help and a hindrance. Recent inventions such as the MP3 player have helped music be portable and convenient, but I also think that after the introduction of MP3 player’s people have stopped listening to albums as a whole, this was the way the artist intended it to be listened to rather than just individual songs. The same problem is with movies, the best way to experience a movie is at a cinema but the introduction of mobile phones that play movies takes away most of the experience of watching a movie. The only technology that I love is the simple mobile phone, ones that do the task of phoning and receiving texts (and maybe play the odd game of snake 2).
I also love television. My favourite channels are anything on the BBC, channel 4 and film 4. I like watching documentaries, some factual programs, some BBC dramas and of course the usual comedy on the BBC. I hate adverts, there just really annoying and get in the way of the enjoyment of the program. My top 5 television programs are (in no particular order) Top Gear, Mock the Week, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, old Skins and Futurerama.
I love film, I like any genre of film really. My top 5 films (in no particular order) are Pulp Fiction, Control, Trainspotting, The Beach and Slumdog Millionaire. As you can see I think Danny Boyle is genius. I also think that Control which is about Ian Curtis (lead singer of The Joy Division) is beautifully filmed, even if it does show that he wasn’t a very nice man it leaves you speechless at the end. The rest of my top ten is (in no particular order) Fight Club, Saving Private Ryan, Napoleon Dynamite, Borat and Green Mile. Like I said earlier on the best place to see a movie is at the cinema, personally I like going to see a movie on my own unless it’s a comedy when it’s much better to see it with as big as possible group of friends.
The reason I chose media studies is because everyone is surrounded by media constantly so you might as well embrace it and learn about it, also I love film and music so I guess I may want a job in one of industries.
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