Film Studies BFI Trip Photographs

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Featured below is a small collection of photographs which i took during our (first) trip to the BFI London Film Festival, where we travelled (from East Croydon station) to view the previously unreleased screening of the new Andy Serkis film, 'Breathe' (which i have analysed already on my blog - https://jamie-pitcher-film-studies.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/film-analysis-breathe-directed-by-andy.html). The experience as a whole was enjoyable and left me feeling content (however i feel like I could have gathered a larger variety of photographs so as to truly capture the trip as a whole, I could have perhaps improved upon this further by bringing a higher resolution camera).








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  1. Coulsdon A Level Film and Media12 October 2017 at 22:21

    Maybe a little more about the film(s) you saw Jamie would give the reader some context of the trip.

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