I am Clarke Jones, I am 19 years old, and I am currently living in Lincoln studying at the University of Lincoln. My parents live near Buckingham in a village called Leckhampsted, they are called Julie and Rodger Jones; I also have a younger sister who has just started at The Buckingham School, her name is Tiffany Jones and she is 12 years old. At University I am studying Computer Science in hope to one day create a game that becomes a worldwide phenomenon, I am hugely interested in the way a computer or game console works and have spent many hours as part of my course taking apart computer systems and putting them back together again. Being at university I have a part time job at the video store in the town centre called ‘Game’, this pays me £5 per hour and spend all my disposable income, of around £50 a month on the latest video game or software for my computer.
Most of my spare time is taken up with playing my Xbox and PlayStation 3 as I see myself as an avid gamer. I also enjoy watching Sci-fi films with my group of friends, my friends are both the same age as me and are both studying the same course at the same university, they are called Nicolas Smith and John Sly, they both share the same interests as me which makes picking a movie to watch extremely easy; we tend to watch Social Network but we can spend the evening watching films such as Avengers Assemble or Iron Man. I enjoy watching television programmes such as Family Guy and American Dad, this is because I find them funny and comical; however I also enjoy watching programmes such as House MD. I enjoy such a range of programmes as they all offer something different, they are very different to the films that I enjoy watching however I don’t particularly enjoy watching comedy films.
I am very interested in Short Film, especially when they are created by Independent Companies, I enjoy watching how creative many of them are, I am especially interested in the visual effects they have come up with; my main interest again sits with the genre Sci-fi, but mainly with computerised graphics. I find independent produced short films more entertaining than those created by a well-known company, this is because many people I am sharing the halls with are doing a media course, which have produced many short films themselves; this started my interest in short films. I especially enjoy watching independent directed short films because I prefer the way a short film can do whatever it likes with the concept instead of having to abide by the conventions of short film with bigger, more well-known companies. I also enjoy the way in which I can appreciate how well done the visual effects can be, when they most likely have a small budget.
I have both a Twitter and Facebook account, but I mainly use them to keep up to date with those involved with computer science and gaming. I do not have a car, this is due to the large expense behind learning to drive, and owning a car, this is mainly because I am a student but also living at University means that everything that I need is either in walking distance or I use public transport.
Most of my spare time is taken up with playing my Xbox and PlayStation 3 as I see myself as an avid gamer. I also enjoy watching Sci-fi films with my group of friends, my friends are both the same age as me and are both studying the same course at the same university, they are called Nicolas Smith and John Sly, they both share the same interests as me which makes picking a movie to watch extremely easy; we tend to watch Social Network but we can spend the evening watching films such as Avengers Assemble or Iron Man. I enjoy watching television programmes such as Family Guy and American Dad, this is because I find them funny and comical; however I also enjoy watching programmes such as House MD. I enjoy such a range of programmes as they all offer something different, they are very different to the films that I enjoy watching however I don’t particularly enjoy watching comedy films.
I am very interested in Short Film, especially when they are created by Independent Companies, I enjoy watching how creative many of them are, I am especially interested in the visual effects they have come up with; my main interest again sits with the genre Sci-fi, but mainly with computerised graphics. I find independent produced short films more entertaining than those created by a well-known company, this is because many people I am sharing the halls with are doing a media course, which have produced many short films themselves; this started my interest in short films. I especially enjoy watching independent directed short films because I prefer the way a short film can do whatever it likes with the concept instead of having to abide by the conventions of short film with bigger, more well-known companies. I also enjoy the way in which I can appreciate how well done the visual effects can be, when they most likely have a small budget.
I have both a Twitter and Facebook account, but I mainly use them to keep up to date with those involved with computer science and gaming. I do not have a car, this is due to the large expense behind learning to drive, and owning a car, this is mainly because I am a student but also living at University means that everything that I need is either in walking distance or I use public transport.