Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema — Season 1, Episode 3: Conversation, Framing, Tracking

Episode synopsis

"Conversation". A basic human interaction -- how to make it cinematic? "Framing". Frames describe and paint the scenes. They shape the cinematic world. "Tracking". Tracking shots are to many an essence of filmmaking magic. They can ask questions and speak when hardly anyone else in the film is talking. Kinetic in nature, tracking can help dynamically show and express a desperate escape.

About Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Openings, Tone
• E2Believability, Introducing Character, Meet Cute
• E4Staging, Journey, Discovery
• E5Adult/Child, Economy, Editing
• E6POV, Close-up, Dream
• E7Bodies, Sex
• E8Home, Religion, Work
• E9Politics, Gear Change, Comedy
• E10Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Horror & Hell
• E11Tension, Stasis, Leave Out
• E12Reveal, Memory, Time
• E13Life Inside, The Meaning of Life, Love