Application
Well, lets start at the beginning, shall we?
My name is Catherine, though I'm more commonly known as Ku by everyone from my best friends, to my parents, to my lecturers. I'm twenteen years old and I live in a grotty little flat in Shepherds Bush, London, UK, which I share with four boys (one anime nerd, one Warhammerer, one literary buff and one filmmaker). Along with three of the four guys from my flat, I study Film at Kings College in London.
So I guess to start with, I should probably mention that I'm a complete film nerd. My taste is really eclectic; my favourite film is Back to the Future, but then I also have a massive weakness for French and German documentary, and badly dubbed Korean action movies. I'm also a filmmaker, and help to run the Filmmaking society at my university. This year we've shot a music video and are currently making a zombie movie that doesn't have any zombies in it. I'm the kind of person that, if I like a film, I can watch it again and again and again and not get sic of it, so this month alone, I think I've seen Withnail & I three times, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang twice and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children at least four times.
I didn't really mention filmmaking, as it didn't seem like that much of a geeky hobby.
But okay; very recently I spent two days on set shooting at a Cathedral for a music video for a band called Cypher 16, which was simultaeneously the most stressful and most amazing weekend of my life. It was my first time working with a big budget, and I basically didn't sleep for about a week from stress/working and while I was there I hated every moment of it and yet, the second that I was off set, I just wanted to be back there, moving my lighting set up around and filmming at high shutter speeds.
I also run a production company with one of my flatmates, called Lightly Salted Productions. Within the next sixth months we are actually shooting a series of short films about London at night, and a thirty minute documentary about LARP.
The thing with filmmaking is, to me, it's always felt like the truest form of art, or at least the most relevent to people today; and obviously, the one that reaches the biggest audience, and I've always felt like I wanted to be part of that. Documentary cinema in particular interests me, as it's probably the truest form of cinema, and cinematic truth is quite important to me.
However, my geekdom only starts here. I'm a HUGE videogame nerd, specifically the Final Fantasy series. Me and my flatmate have Final Fantasy Thursday, in which we cut off all communication with the outdoors, fire up the PS2 and play our way through our favourite Final Fantasy games. Our lounge is covered in Advent Children posters and I recently got extensions in my bright red hair so I could look more like Reno from FFVII :) My other favourite videogame franchises are the Legend of Zelda series, Skies of Arcadia, Spyro The Dragon, Left 4 Dead, Goldeneye, Soul Calibur and loads more that just slip my mind at the moment. Me and my flatmate have this huge obsession with videogames music. We've started a covers band, where we play Final Fantasy covers (him on guitar, me on my...ukulele). The big numbers sound a little weird on those two instruments, but we're getting there. We also have a pilgrimage to Seattle booked for this summer. We're flying halfway around the world just to see Nobou Uemastsu perform in concert. And we're seeing him twice in two nights.
Furthermore, I am a hardcore roleplayer & LARPer. I'm currently taking part in four tabletop games a week: A 1st ed. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying Game, a Savage Worlds system Firefly game, a Savage Worlds System Buffy/Supernatural crossover game, and an All Flesh Must Be Eaten game. In the past I've played: D&D (pretty much every edition), first and second ed Warhammer, Dark Heresy, Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, Vampire: The Masquerade, Mage: The Awakening, Paranoid, World of Darkness, Spirit of the Century...and I'm sure more, which again, I'm forgetting. I also LARP twice a month, a Star Wars game and a Vampire: The Requiem game called Interregnum. My character for my Star Wars game is pretty much the coolest that I've ever played. Her alias is Liberty Valance, and she's a conwoman. Well, she used to be a conwomanm before she was scouted by the Black Sun (pirates) and is now their ambassador to the other planets. I'm the richest character in the game and all of that cash has been made through intimidation, blackmail and theft. Next session, me and another character will be acting out a full blown interrogation scene. With a lARP safe claw hammer. That I'm going to take to his knee caps :D
I have a plan for pretty much every kind of apocalyptic event that could effect the world: Zombies, Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter etc, and I generally bore people by the being the first thing I tell them when I meet someone for the first time. I also have a plan for what I would do if one of my classes was placed on the Battle Royale island, though it doesn't really stretch further than 'Gun everyone of you motherfuckers down to get off'. People are somehow surprised by that, despite the fact that they've played Goldeneye with me, and heard me utter the fateful words 'YEAH MOTHERFUCKER, TAKE MY FULL AUTO, BITCH!'.
As well as an addiction to Fantasy/Sci-Fi TV (Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Heroes, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Supernatural) and a love of Lord of the Rings which knows no bounds (I have read it once a year since I was eight years old), I'm just generally an incurable geek; feel free to ask me more.
In the way of non-nerdy things, I'm very interested in fashion, writing and photography, getting drunk, as well as my filmmaking. I have quite a unique sense of style. I am also obsessed with tattoos, though currently I only have one, some Bob Dylan lyrics on my foot.
Well, after that little essay, I guess I should show you some photos, right?
(I'm the one in the big grey military jacket and short brown skirt)
