MY INSPIRATIONS-
ELLIS PLATTEN-
Ellis Platten is a football youtuber who runs the channel 'AwayDays'. his content is mainly about football shirt collecting and going to football matches. As a football fan I really enjoy his content and his way of documenting football games. He is a big inspiration of mine and one of the reasons I collect football shirts myself, I have also attempted to replicate his type of videos in my own way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGOun8s58k&t=169s). He also inspires me because of his honest way of documenting games, as during the 2022 world cup he was offered payment to document the games from the people who ran the tournament with the assumption that he would talk positively about the games and the host(s) whilst also keeping his payment secretive. However, he declined this offer in order to review the tournament as honestly as possible. This is something witch is very inspiring to me and is one of the reasons I have a great deal of respect of Ellis. The thing I like the most about Ellis' content is the unique selling point which is him going to unusual footballing establishments like the least followed national team or a team in Gibraltar.
LOUIS THEROUX-
Louis Theroux is a journalist/documentary maker whole is most famous for his show 'Louis Theroux's weird weekends' where he documents everything from racists in southern USA to drug cartels in prisons in south America. He gained an education at Magdalen college in oxford where he received a degree in history. What I like particularly about his documentaries is his neutral tone in which he talks to people with, his none-confrontational tone allows him to ask people invasive questions to get information without them feeling offended. It shows his control that he has in every potentially life threatening situation he finds himself in. For example, when he visited Johannesburg in his documentary 'louis Theroux-law and disorder in Johannesburg' he was constantly under threat of attack from people with machine guns but throughout the whole situation he was able to keep a level head and not appear to be weak or a threat and that may have kept him out of bother in south Africa. I would say that Louis Theroux's documentaries was one of my earliest influences which led me to want to be part of the media industry because of his confidence and interesting personality as well of his adventurous style of journalism where he visits the most bizarre and sometimes dangerous places.
TOM SCOTT-
Tom Scott is a youtuber/journalist who documents weird and interesting things in 5-10 minute documentary-style videos on YouTube. He studied at York university where he earned a degree in linguistic and in the English language, he later earned a MA in educational studies. His content mainly consists of his doing unusual things or visiting unique places. He started his channel 16 years ago and continues to make content to this day, however now his content has a lot more funding and is in far more interesting locations. His channel gained notoriety because of his style of participatory documentation where he goes to places that many people wont have heard of and gets to experience one of a kind things which he than records and uploads to YouTube. Tom Scott defiantly inspired me to join the media industry because of the things he got to do and the style of content he makes, as that is something I would like to because of how much I like learning new information and experiencing new things. Tom Scott inspires me because of his confidence and how he presents himself in his videos as my confidence in front of camera is something I need to work on.
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