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

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

  Ghita Skali (born 1992 in Casablanca) is an artist based in Amsterdam. She has a multidisciplinary practice which encompasses installa...

         While musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the mu...

   A controversial personality due to his straightforward style, Pasolini's legacy remains contentious. Openly gay while also a vocal ad...

 , "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale ") is an annual film festival held in Venice , Italy....

    Study Your Favorite Movies First thing’s first: What is it about the cinematic effect that moves you enough to want to replicate them ...

      The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers began motion picture exhibitions.The first Italian directo...

  Bridging shot A shot used to cover a jump in time or place or other discontinuity. Examples are a clock face showing advancing time...

      Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing "formal qualities that mark them as different f...

  I talian neorealism, also known as the Golden Age, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the wo...

    Tracking shots are where the camera follows or moves with a character. This usually means having the camera off the tripod, with the c...

    Principal photography can take place in a studio or in an actual setting, and the choice of location depends on artistic and economic as...

  Amateur usage of Super 8 has been largely replaced by video, but the format is sometimes used by professionals trying to imitate the look...

    Color grading is a post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of improving the appearance of an image for presentati...

    The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers began motion picture exhibitions. The first Italian director...

    Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a majo...

    Narrative film, fictional film or fiction film is a motion picture that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. C...

  In filmmaking, dailies are the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture. They are thus referred to because usual...

    The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. The first Italian director is considered to be Vittor...

Experimental filmmakers generally begin as amateurs, and some used experimental films as a springboard into commercial film making ...