Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema - Season 1 Episode 1 Openings, Tone
“Openings”. With examples from 1943 to 2013, from China to Iran, Australia to Finland, we look at how to open a film: from mysterious, direct, floating, foreboding beginnings to plunging straight in. All are instructive in how to create an immediate world. “Tone”. What’s the tone of a film—not its story or theme, but what its world feels like? This chapter looks at the myriad ways in which directors set the tones of their films: delight, anger, poetry, double tones, moral seriousness, caring, edginess, and violence.
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BFI Player
- Keyword: equality, filmmaking, cinema history, women in film, documentary, history, film history
- Cast: Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandiwe Newton