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

  Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term. It has been criticized for its focus on the dramatic des...

     A film distributor is a person responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company may be the same as, or different from,...

    Excellent. Probably using Kodachrome film (because the colors are natural). Many people don't realize this, but film quality went ba...

    A remake is a film , television series , video game , song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story ...

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

  Chroma key compositing (or chroma keying) is a technique for compositing (layering) two images together. A color range in the top layer...

A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematography, t...

Zooming in film-making and television production refers to the technique of changing the focal length of a zoom lens (and hence the angle o...

Jeronymites Monastery (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos,) is located near the shore of the parish of Belém, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. ...

A trailer or preview is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema. The term ...

Film-related podcasts for film-makers. Creative Cow: Useful creative tech news. In depth interviews. Filmmaking Central: Podcast from...

A soundbite is an audiolinguistic and social communications phenomenon whose nature was recognized in the late 20th century, helped by peo...

C ollage film is traditionally defined as, “A film that juxtaposes fictional scenes with footage taken from disparate sources, such as new...

Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, th...

Madeira was claimed by Portuguese sailors in the service of Henry the Navigator in 1419, and settled after 1420. The archipelago is consid...

Madeira is a fortified wine, produced in the Madeira Islands; varieties may be sweet or dry. It has a history dating back to the Age of E...

Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politicall...

The Cinema of Portugal has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, ...

Romance films (or romance movies) are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on cinema that focus on...

Film promotion is the practice of promotion specifically in the film industry, and usually occurs in coordination with the process of film...