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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

Or, in simple terms, the story of the club.

The idea to start a podcast was around a year-and-a-half in the making. It’s hardly a new or original idea, but for 3 lovers of film, with 3 completely different backgrounds and approaches and experiences, we thought it was an awesome place to share our ideas and thoughts. We just needed a format. Or at least a loose format. 

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After a few pints, a few more meet-ups and loads of texting, Whatsapping and tweeting, we came up with a format that pandered to one of our dearest desires as movie fans: to watch more films we’ve never seen. And it’s here our format took shape. The First Take Film Club, coined for the first time ever. A podcast about our first opinions on films we’d never seen before. N’awhhhh, it’s our little baby!

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We’ve had a whole bunch of genres on the podcast. This website, this blurb, this ‘about us’ section is being written about 3 months after we started recording the first ever pod, because we wanted to first see how things went. Now, with 12 episodes (and counting) and a bonus Avengers: Endgame spoiler pod, things are really taking shape.

 

 

The podcast is our bread and butter but the jam on the top, the nice little bonus, is this website right here. Here is where we’ll write about some of the ideas that we don’t get time to talk about on air. All of us are writers in different forms, be that film (Connor), journalism (Liam) or copy and content (Luke), so we’re hoping there should be some seriously interesting, fun and diverse styles and subjects. And that’s why we’ve decided to put together a website. Hopefully you enjoy the ideas we bring to the table as much as we will enjoy writing them and we’re excited to be able to bring you some more takes from the world of First Take. Thanks for coming along for the ride.

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