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

     Actuality film is a non-fiction film genre that uses footage of real events, places, and things (essentially B-roll), a predecessor to ...

     Sweden has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 64 times since making its debut in 1958, missing only three contests since t...

     Cameras have evolved, filmmakers have developed a vast array of camera movements and camera angles to enhance storytelling. Mastering t...

     Ernst Ingmar Bergman[a] (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of...

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

     A dual role (also known as a double role) refers to one actor playing two roles in a single production. Dual roles (or a larger number ...

  A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes....

    In 1953, the CinemaScope image format was introduced, whose perspective gave a wider range and could thus compete with the square format...

  The human senses do not function like a video camcorder , impartially recording all observations. Human perception occurs by a complex, un...

     In filmmaking, a pick-up is a small, relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot. When a p...

  Determining which films should count as the first educational films is controversial. Some researchers suggest that the first educationa...

  Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video cameras or di...

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

  The 20th century is not the first to create images of life during medieval times. The Middle Ages ended over five centuries ago and each...

  As early as 1906, various film entrepreneurs began to discuss the potential of home viewing of films, and in 1912, both Edison and Path...

    The Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. It supports Swedish filmmakings and all...

    A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forwar...

    Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved...

    In the earliest rock and roll styles, either the piano or saxophone was typically the lead instrument. These instruments were generally ...

    The Swedish Film Institute works to promote film across the board – from idea to finished product, during launch in Sweden and around th...