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

  Slow cutting is a film editing technique characterized by frequent lengthy shots. Though it depends on context, it is estimated that any...

    Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in...

     A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually on telev...

    In filmmaking, a long take (also called continuous take or continuous shot) is a shot with a duration much longer than the conventional ...

    Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, ...

    Amateur photographers take photos for personal use, as a hobby or out of casual interest, rather than as a business or job. The quality ...

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same pla...

A web film is a film made with the medium of the Internet and its distribution constraints in mind. This term aims to differentiate c...

  Yes, it is absolutely best to see real Viking ships and authentic Viking sites up close. But since that isn’t possible right now, why no...

You should shoot a bit more than you need, but if you shoot hours of footage it’ll take you forever to sort through it to find the bits y...

A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN...

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12 which was the fir...

  An aurora, sometimes referred to as a polar light or northern light, is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high...

Lighting illuminates the performers and artists in a live theatre, dance, or musical performance, and is selected and arranged to create d...

The city of Tromso is located in northern Norway’s winter wilderness. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I’d make it to ...

With its imposing mountains, endless plateaus and echoing valleys, Norway is a country where nature takes the lead. Using time-lapse, this...

An aurora, sometimes referred to as a polar light or northern light, is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high...

A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a ...

Movement can be used extensively by film makers to make meaning. It is how a scene is put together to produce an image. A famous example o...

Henk de Velde (sailing) en Frans Mouws (filming) Svalbard formerly known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen) is a Norwegian archipelago in t...