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*Reposted from my former blog* Ah, yes the pivotal question to the film fanatic's ear  'what is your favourite film?’  This question is often replied to with a temperamental answer. We go through a multitude of stages when settling on a decent answer to a snap shot question. Stage one, favourite genre, which often ends in a spew of nonsense because you don't have a favourite genre as such. Stage two, the flicker; where your mind scans through as many films as it can. Stage three, settling for the first sane film to pop in your head.   A serious fan would need a good week to work out their favourite film, flicking through their collection of films and critically analysing each one and then separating them in to categories of greatness. It's a long and tedious process that frankly I don't have the energy to go through. For me, my favourite films are merely the ones that have had a profound effect on me or I will watch at any given moment. Through this way ...

*Reposted from my former blog* Films, a motion picture utilised to tell a story, it’s an art form and a discovery that has only improved over the many years. There is many a way to create a movie, using traditional film reel, digital cameras, stop motion animation, cell animation, CGI and 3d animation. There’s a variety of genres, styles and methods in executing each film. In turn this makes motion picture on of the most versatile art forms, an art form that almost anyone can experience and enjoy in some way. My adoration towards film was not something that just clicked all of the sudden; it was a gradual process that built up over many years. Ever since a young child I’ve watched films, especially since when I was just a tot and everything else was uninteresting to me. But you know what I did love – some good old movie time. But then my parents had a respectable VHS collection, of which my attention was mostly drawn to the wonders of Pixar and Disney. As I grew up I had my ho...

*Reposted from my former blog* As a young child I always found myself tapping along to musical numbers, so much so that often you could find me theatrically singing and dancing to ridiculous songs such as 'I Feel Pretty' in my bedroom. At such a young age the idea of scores rarely crossed my mind, I may have realised that there even music to accompany the bittersweet scenes only once or twice. This seems so alien to me, now I look back, since I currently find it hard to not rant about a particular score from a particular film that was particularly bad. However I did listen to one spectacular piece more than intended which I'm sure you've all heard of, 'Ecstasy of Gold' by the wonderful Ennio Morricone. That one track was what my father used to play constantly in the car, and if we were travelling to Scotland from England, we would probably hear it a good ten times due to the abundance of tracks on his mix CD's. The gorgeous melody produced by the master ...

*Reposted from my former blog* About three weeks ago I got the email whilst at my Uncle's house telling me 'you got in to the BFI Film Academy Scotland Residential'. Obviously I was overjoyed; I automatically called my parents and said 'you better get me there'. Despite this excitement there was some overshadowing doubt that filled my every thought. I'm not a particularly confident person; I have a multitude of insecurities that often can reduce me to tears. Where I live I'm a fairly outgoing individual, yet still quiet being the listener rather than the speaker most of the time. However as soon as I'm somewhere I have to meet new people and speak to them, I find it incredibly hard. On top of that, I had never been involved with making films when others most likely have. I'm not going to bore you by going in to the details of what we did day by day but I will tell you what we made and how amazing it was. The main priority of the whole residenti...

*Reposted from my former blog* On my Instagram I used to do a series in which I would recommend three films, short films, artists and musicians, every week, these would be shared to my Facebook and Tumblr and were mostly for my own amusement and as a way of educating a few friends. I stopped doing this after a short while due to laziness and the fact I wanted to write more about the things I was recommending. I have finally decided to start again, and each post will have a link to my blog here, where I can write a little more. If you want to check out some of my old recommendations feel free to head over to my Instagram: @flynnpenguin. Perhaps, one day, I shall accompany my old posts with some writing too. Top 3 Films Snubbed at the Oscars I thought I'd start off with something that has been grating at my skull for the past couple of days, and what even sparked my idea of starting this up again. Frankly, I've lost interest for the Awards. Yet despite this, I still end up...