Course evening 1: What is film texture? 
Kevin Toma, 10 March

In this introductory session, we look at what we mean by film texture. How does the camerawork, editing and costume design give a film its own specific character and temperament? What makes one film hip and another energetic or dreamy? And is there also something like over-textured film or even textureless film? Moving from national and historical film textures to the texture of film genres, Kevin Toma shows how a maker can put their own textural mark on a film. The session addresses things like the ambience of opening scenes and the finest shot in the history of film.