My Little Experiment

There's nothing more pitiful than a 21 year old whose spent most his life in education convinced their life has peaked. I can confirm because that was me (pictured here rehearsing for my Academy Award).

As I approach my MA in Film this September I have slowly but surely realised grades alone do not get you work in this business. While it feels like my peers have careers already lined up, I am sat here drowning my sorrows in Guinness and Taskmaster compilations, neither of which look great on a LinkedIn profile.

I'm aware this post reads as a flow of unconsciousness and self-indulgent; believe me this will not be the template for future reviews and essays but rather is more a pledge to myself. I want to be a writer, I want to have a philosophical awareness of the world that is as witty as it is earnestly analytical, I want to craft engaging narratives both fiction and non-fiction like my many heroes and sitting around being scared of self-expression is not going to do any help.

Cinema on the Bay is my personal project to develop my voice through a mantra as old as time, "practice makes perfect". This is a site to hone analysis, discipline and confidence that I hope can one day translate to a full time career. Even if this experiment is short lived and never reaches an audience beyond myself, that isn't what matters.

Expect film reviews, essays detailing my thoughts on a series of relevant topics and other forms of expression I want to share. I've already got a few ideas brewing so fingers crossed there'll be some success from this when all is said and done.