C'est le Toon
About this original series
Video is getting more and more an important means of communication. With a normal/simple camcorder everybody can make interesting video's.
Making a better video is a complete different story. Not because of technical difficulties, lack of experience or expensive devices, it is mere the creative idea or the ideal story, basic technics and a perfect finishing.
A cinematographer used to be thought of as a film artist, but cinematographers are creators of original works - whether it's film or video. All of us who use a camera to make original video are artists in one form or another and having good skills in all areas of the production process pays off.
I am a Dutch amateurfilmer and homevideo enthusiast. The majority of thesefilms on this site are samples of my short videos, editedwith iMovie and compressed with Quicktime.
Play-QUALITY and Speed can be obtained by choosing and using Quicktime. Unfortunately, flash is not always playable, or in a much smaller size and sometimes does't produce sound.
During downloading or watching you can read the corresponding texts and movie-related tips and techniques.
Many people take the moving image for granted. They frequently assume
that the images they see are a true and accurate portrayal of the
events of “what is happening”. Of course this can be in part explained
by the fact that the visual image is far more seductive than the written
word. This is because we impose our own meaning on what we see. The
idea that “I won′t believe it until I see it” is very significant here.
It is important, therefore, to learn to evaluate film as evidence.
This can be achieved by understanding more about the process of
filmmaking by investigating how the content and nature of a film can be
determined by editing, use of montage, choice of camera angles, target
audience and so on. Therefore, we must consider how films are produced
in order to ask what they can tell us. We must study what films show us
and how they show it.
Any use of copyrighted images, music or texts on this website is accidental, and any such material will be promptly removed upon notification from the copyright holder.
This show is frequently changing, so checkback for updates.
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