Amateur-Film and Home-Video, Tips and Information from C'est leToon

  An ASMR video The most popular source of stimuli reported by subjects to be effective in triggering ASMR is video. Videos reported being e...

     Experimental filmmakers generally begin as amateurs, and some use experimental films as a springboard into commercial film-making or tr...

      The main precursor to the movie projector was the magic lantern. In its most common setup it had a concave mirror behind a light sourc...

      There are three different types of robotic programs: remote control, artificial intelligence, and hybrid. A robot with remote control ...

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     16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about 2⁄3 inch); other common...

      On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job o...

     Film posters have been used since the earliest public exhibitions of film. They began as outside placards listing the programme of (sho...

     Most storyboard artists begin and finish their work on computers using software and digital pencils or a graphics tablet. Storyboard ar...

     Tilly Norwood is an artificial intelligence-generated character marketed as an actress. Created in 2025 by Xicoia, the AI division of t...

      A UHD image contains over 8 million pixels, while a Full HD image only contains 2 million pixels. As a result, the UHD resolution is 4...

     Religious satire is a form of satire that refers to religious beliefs and can take the form of texts, plays, films, and parody. From th...

  Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of n...

     Cardinale died, aged 87, on 23 September 2025, at her home in Nemours, Île-de-France.   Cardinale attracted many tributes after her dea...

     Pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit. It involves finalizing the script, hiring the actors and crew, finding...

  Continuity editing uses a guideline called the "30-degree rule" to avoid the appearance of jump cuts. The 30-degree rule adv...

      The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art. The te...

     Source material or symbolic sources are objects meant to communicate information, either publicly or privately, to some person, known ...

  The interviewer is usually a professional or paid researcher, sometimes trained, who poses questions to the interviewee, in an altern...

     During the 1980s, video distributors gradually realized that many consumers did want to build their own video libraries, and not just r...

    pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra to land the role of a character in a script, scre...

      From the year the VOC was founded in 1602 until 1700, an estimated 317,000 people of international descent sailed on VOC vessels. Betw...

  Early photographs in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries were often developed in black and white, as an alternative to sepia due...

      A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film's produ...

     Van de Ven's film debut as an actress was in the Paul Verhoeven film Turkish Delight in 1973. This film was an immediate breakthrou...

     Plot  Outside the Lines Three young queer people share their experiences of deviating from the cis-heteronorm. Being outside the norm ...

"Labubu craze" refers to the global hype surrounding toy figures of the character Labubu, a sharp-toothed "elf" with a m...

     The oldest known surviving film in the world, Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), was shot in England by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Ear...

  Costume is the distinctive style of dress and/or makeup of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, occupation, ethnicity, ...

     The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a present...

      Hans Florian Zimmer; born 12 September 1957) is a German film composer and music producer. He has received numerous accolades, includi...

     Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the ...

     Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean and consequently had a troubled production, going over budget and sched...

  Drawing heavily from the theories of literary-genre criticism, film genres are usually delineated by "conventions, iconography, s...

  The Cité du Cinéma or Studios of Paris is a film studio complex originally supported and founded by the film director and producer Luc Bes...

  Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it i...

  The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The speci...

     Optical effects (also called photographic effects) are the techniques in which images or film frames are created photographically, eith...

  A "sack" is an edited set of video clips for a news story and is common on television. It is typically narrated by a reporter. I...

  Van Warmerdam has further developed into an established filmmaker with a recognizable signature of alienation, dark humor, and pictur...

     The Cinema Museum is a museum in Kennington, London. Its collection was founded in 1986 by Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries, from thei...

  a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Užupis means "beyond the river" or "the other side of the river" in the Lithuanian l...

   \ A test screening, or test audience, is a preview screening of a film or television series before its general release to gauge audience ...

     Film noir is a style of Hollywood crime dramas that emphasizes cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally reg...

     Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the pra...

     The film is widely considered Kubrick's magnum opus, as well as one of the best comedy films and one of the greatest and most influ...

     The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the B...

      Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. Varda's work employed location shooting in an...

     A filmography is a list of films related by some criteria. For example, an actor's career filmography is the list of films they hav...