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Welcome to today's Let's Talk Newton, powered by the Niceville Raceway.
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I'm Randy Van, and joining us today, we have Miles Soppie.
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She is a senior at New Knife School, and she has signed a letter of intent to go to
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Chicago for Paul University School of Cinematic Arts.
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First off, let's talk about your senior a year so far.
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You did pretty good at state competition, too.
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Didn't you tell us a little bit about that?
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Well, at speech, I have done speech for three years now, and every year, all of my events
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have qualified for state, which is very exciting.
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But I did group improv for group speech this year, and my group got to state.
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We ended up getting an overall too, which is a little disappointing, but that's okay.
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And then for individual speech, I did solo musical theater, and I got three ones at state,
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which is the highest score you can get.
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So you had to be proud of that?
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That's a great opportunity.
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When did you start getting interested in dramas and acting stuff like that in speech?
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The first show I did acting wise, I joined the musical when I was in eighth grade, and that
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was the first show I ever did, and I ended up getting a pretty decent part, and so that
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was very exciting, and I started doing that.
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And theater is probably what I'm most well known for in the school, and I've done this
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upcoming show, I believe is my twelfth with the school.
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So that's really exciting, and we're doing Aladdin Jr. right now, and I'm one of the
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So in eighth grade, is that when you caught the bug then?
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He said, oh, I like this.
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Yeah, and then when I was a freshman, I started here, of course, and I found out there
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was a film club that was run by a bunch of seniors that I had become friends with because
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And so I was like, oh, there's more opportunity to do acting stuff, but after I joined,
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I also did directing and editing, assistant directing, and writing for stuff, and I really
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enjoyed it, and it was really fun.
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And then we ended up not having a camera the next year, because the camera we used belonged
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to one of the seniors, so we graduated, and we don't have a camera.
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So it kind of fell off, and we weren't really able to do anything.
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But then this past school year, when we were signing up for classes, I found out about
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this place in Des Moines called Central Campus, and it's like, they call it, it's a career
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in technical high school.
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So they have a bunch of career-based stuff, and one of the programs they have is television
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is, sorry, broadcasting in film is the class.
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And so I'm triple enrolled this year as a new student, a DMX student, and a Des Moines
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I'm surprised you have time to do this interview.
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Well, I was almost late, because I was driving back to Des Moines.
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So every day, I go to Des Moines, and I started taking this film class.
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And for a while, I really thought I was going to do more of the theater side of stuff, but
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then after taking this class, I was like, wow, I really like film, because we work with
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like studio grade equipment, and it's just, it's so cool.
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And every Wednesday, we get to have, well, for me, during my class, every Wednesday,
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me and my friend do a radio show, and we're live on air.
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So I actually just had that today, and we get to play music and talk about stuff.
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And it's a really cool class, but it pretty much, it just gave me another opportunity
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to do more film stuff, and maybe realize just how much I like film.
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And then somehow, I found something talking about DePaul, and it's actually the top film
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school in the Midwest, and it's in the top 10 in like the entire country.
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And it had already been on my radar, because they also have a good theater school.
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So after I saw that, I was like, that sounds amazing.
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And then it was in Chicago.
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And I've always kind of knew that I wanted to be in the city, when I went to college.
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And so it's just kind of all lined up perfectly.
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That's quite a story.
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Again, we're talking to Miles Sofie, a nice school senior off to DePaul University School
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So the ultimate goal for you, what's the ultimate goal of career goal?
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We're going to move to Hollywood and make pictures and go to film the, those films.
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I would definitely think so.
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I definitely like to work on films.
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I'm not sure what specific part yet, because so far everything that I've tried, I've
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done editing, I've done camera work, I've done some directing, I've always liked writing.
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So like I enjoy doing all of it.
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So I think I hope that starting more classes, and I know the first year at DePaul, there's
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a lot of introductory classes.
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So I can just kind of find my niche.
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But ultimately I'd love to work in the industry in some capacity.
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Well, sounds like you got a great start to accomplishing that.
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Thanks for spending time with us.
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Congratulations on a great career here at Newtons High School.
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