How to make it as a film critic

(9 Jan 2017)
London, 5 January 2017
1. Medium shot Noel Clarke and James King posing for photographs
2. SOUNDBITE (English) James King, film critic - on his path to becoming a film critic:
"I don't think I ever wanted to be anything else actually. Certainly not since I was a teenager and so, in a quite scary way, I just really narrowed my focus. I just really focussed on doing that one thing and if I didn't get that then I would've been scuppered really. Luckily I did. But in terms of what I studied at university and then my post-graduate course, you know, it was all narrowing towards being a film critic. Film studies, journalism degree - all of these kind of things. In a way there's absolutely nothing else I could do. It's the only thing I'm trained to do."
3. James King posing for photographs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) James King, film critic - on how to make it as a film critic:
"In a way it's easier now and more difficult. It's easier now because you can get your voice heard, you can publish stuff yourself, so it's easy to be out there and say 'I've got a website. Read my stuff.' The difficult thing is, is anybody actually going to read it when there are thousands to choose from? There's so much competition. Also, how are you going to get paid for that? And yeah, eventually maybe you can get adverts on your website or whetever, but it takes time. You've got to build up traffic to get any money out of that. So it's certainly easier to get heard because there are more outlets. In terms of putting food on the table I think it's probably more difficult."
5. Wide shot James King being interviewed

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