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

Home slide shows were a relatively common phenomenon in middle-class American homes during the 1950s and 1960s. If there was an enthusias...

Video poetry is poetry in video form. It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin...

Film title design is a term describing the craft and design of motion picture title sequences. Since the beginning of the film form, it ha...

Making movies is an art. For some time, the Art movies were considered the best form of art. But later filmmaking was transformed into a b...

You can teach yourself a lot about the mechanics of filmmaking by watching films. You’ll learn why filmmakers do things, and you’ll get an...

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in bo...

Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatically to all creative material under cop...

In motion pictures the manipulation of time and space is a considerable contributing factor to the narrative storytelling tools. Film edit...

The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the ...

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be c...

Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary". The aesthetic...

Why Preserve Film? Movies have documented America for more than one hundred years. Since Thomas Edison introduced the movie camera in 18...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constr...

  TransitionsIn film or video scene consists of a sequence of shots. Each shot is made from a different perspective and then they are join...

There are two things that, if added to a camera, will immediately reduce jitter – good old fashioned weight, and a lowered center of gravit...

Petite France is a historic quarter of the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. It is located at the western end of the Grande Île, which...

Camino de Santiago from anton withagen on Vimeo . Religious broadcasting is broadcasting by religious organizations, usually with a reli...

Alsace is one of the great, under-appreciated treasures of the wine world. This pretty enclave of fairytale villages in the lee of the for...

Blogging has also introduced opportunities for a new wave of amateur film critics to have their opinions heard. These review blogs may foc...

Movie posters are like trailers and websites: you don’t realize how important they are until you realize how hard it is to make a good on...