Let’s Talk Newton – Newton High School Senior Miles Soppe

Welcome to today's Let's Talk Newton, powered by the Niceville Raceway.

I'm Randy Van, and joining us today, we have Miles Soppie.

She is a senior at New Knife School, and she has signed a letter of intent to go to

Chicago for Paul University School of Cinematic Arts.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

First off, let's talk about your senior a year so far.

You did pretty good at state competition, too.

Didn't you tell us a little bit about that?

Well, at speech, I have done speech for three years now, and every year, all of my events

have qualified for state, which is very exciting.

But I did group improv for group speech this year, and my group got to state.

We ended up getting an overall too, which is a little disappointing, but that's okay.

And then for individual speech, I did solo musical theater, and I got three ones at state,

which is the highest score you can get.

So you had to be proud of that?

Yes.

That's a great opportunity.

When did you start getting interested in dramas and acting stuff like that in speech?

The first show I did acting wise, I joined the musical when I was in eighth grade, and that

was the first show I ever did, and I ended up getting a pretty decent part, and so that

was very exciting, and I started doing that.

And theater is probably what I'm most well known for in the school, and I've done this

upcoming show, I believe is my twelfth with the school.

So that's really exciting, and we're doing Aladdin Jr. right now, and I'm one of the

jazzmans.

That's exciting.

Yeah, neat.

So in eighth grade, is that when you caught the bug then?

Yes.

The first one.

He said, oh, I like this.

Yeah, and then when I was a freshman, I started here, of course, and I found out there

was a film club that was run by a bunch of seniors that I had become friends with because

of band.

And so I was like, oh, there's more opportunity to do acting stuff, but after I joined,

I also did directing and editing, assistant directing, and writing for stuff, and I really

enjoyed it, and it was really fun.

And then we ended up not having a camera the next year, because the camera we used belonged

to one of the seniors, so we graduated, and we don't have a camera.

So it kind of fell off, and we weren't really able to do anything.

But then this past school year, when we were signing up for classes, I found out about

this place in Des Moines called Central Campus, and it's like, they call it, it's a career

in technical high school.

So they have a bunch of career-based stuff, and one of the programs they have is television

is, sorry, broadcasting in film is the class.

And so I'm triple enrolled this year as a new student, a DMX student, and a Des Moines

student.

I'm surprised you have time to do this interview.

Yeah.

Well, I was almost late, because I was driving back to Des Moines.

So every day, I go to Des Moines, and I started taking this film class.

And for a while, I really thought I was going to do more of the theater side of stuff, but

then after taking this class, I was like, wow, I really like film, because we work with

like studio grade equipment, and it's just, it's so cool.

And every Wednesday, we get to have, well, for me, during my class, every Wednesday,

me and my friend do a radio show, and we're live on air.

So I actually just had that today, and we get to play music and talk about stuff.

And it's a really cool class, but it pretty much, it just gave me another opportunity

to do more film stuff, and maybe realize just how much I like film.

And then somehow, I found something talking about DePaul, and it's actually the top film

school in the Midwest, and it's in the top 10 in like the entire country.

And it had already been on my radar, because they also have a good theater school.

So after I saw that, I was like, that sounds amazing.

And then it was in Chicago.

And I've always kind of knew that I wanted to be in the city, when I went to college.

And so it's just kind of all lined up perfectly.

Wow.

That's quite a story.

It's a deal.

Congratulations.

Again, we're talking to Miles Sofie, a nice school senior off to DePaul University School

of Symmag Arts.

So the ultimate goal for you, what's the ultimate goal of career goal?

We're going to move to Hollywood and make pictures and go to film the, those films.

I would definitely think so.

I definitely like to work on films.

I'm not sure what specific part yet, because so far everything that I've tried, I've

done editing, I've done camera work, I've done some directing, I've always liked writing.

So like I enjoy doing all of it.

So I think I hope that starting more classes, and I know the first year at DePaul, there's

a lot of introductory classes.

So I can just kind of find my niche.

To find them.

Narrow that.

Narrow that.

Narrow down.

Yes.

But ultimately I'd love to work in the industry in some capacity.

Okay.

Well, sounds like you got a great start to accomplishing that.

Thanks for spending time with us.

Thank you.

Congratulations on a great career here at Newtons High School.

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