A bundle of home box office blockbusters.oming soon to streaming services on your TV.
Amazon Prime Video
On July 3 2020, the second series of ‘Hanna’, based on the 2011 film of the same name, will premiere featuring Esme Creed-Miles (Dark River) as the eponymous role of the DNA enhanced super-soldier. While the first series reimagined the events of the film, this series will take the story in a new direction.
Netflix
Cate Blanchett (Mrs. America) co-created, featured and executive produced the Australian drama series ‘Stateless’, released on 8 July 2020. Also featuring Dominic West (Colette), Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad), the story focuses on four strangers whose lives intersect at an Australian immigration detention centre. While Netflix will release the series worldwide, ‘Stateless’ attracted positive critical reception when aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from March 2020.
Disney+
Winner of 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, from 16 nominations four years ago, the original Broadway production of ‘Hamilton’ received overwhelming critical and audience acclaim becoming a cultural phenomenon in the process.
Premiering on 3 July 2020, the eve of the 244th anniversary of the United States’ independence, is a live recording, brought forward from its initial October 2021 release in response to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.
Edited together from three performances in June 2016, this television event features the original cast with Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns), who also wrote the music, lyrics and book, as the eponymous character.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
