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Email: l.biddiscombe@winchester.ac.uk 

Views and Influences

One of my main inspirations only came out last year. Anvil is a documentary made by Sacha Gervasi, who has had not much experience and it was his first film he was directing, and still has ever directed since. Anvil draws you into the film so deep, for the first 20 minutes you are laughing at the two main people. You are not connected to these characters at all. After this passes, the film starts to make you feel very personal about what you are watching, changing your perspective on how you feel for the people involved. The reason why this is a main inspiration is for the fact that the director just knew them and decided to make the film, It wasn’t planned he just joined these two 50 year old wannabe rock stars on the road to trying to become famous with their band, Anvil. The film makes you part of the bands struggle to make it, which makes you so involved with the film wanting them to make it.

Louis Theroux is a favourite of mine because of the situations he puts himself in. He is so out of place with all of the situation he is in and brings logic to the ideas he is challenging or trying to understand. The thing that makes his films great is the way he puts himself right into the documentary. I love his style as it is so British, and the way he explores the stories his documentaries are about, using his British-ness just makes his films genius.