WOMEN MAKE FILM EPISODE 1: OPENINGS AND TONE
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WOMEN MAKE FILM EPISODE 1: OPENINGS AND TONE

WOMEN MAKE FILM SERIES
Sat
12
Sat Mar 12 1:00 PM

Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
60 Mins
2018|M |DCP|UK |D: Mark Cousins   

Openings 
With examples from 1943 to 2013 – and covering countries from China to Iran and Australia to Finland - we look at how to open a film. From mysterious, direct, floating and foreboding beginnings to plunging straight in; all are instructive in creating an immediate world. 
 
Tone 
What’s the tone of a film – not its story or theme, but what its world feels like? We go back to Hollywood and director Dorothy Arzner with Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) and its glamorous, amorous mood. This chapter looks at the myriad ways in which directors set the tones of their films, including delight, anger, poetry, double tones, moral seriousness, caring, edginess and violence. 

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