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

A Zoom lens allows a camera operator to change their focal length within a shot or quickly between setups for shots. As prime lenses offe...

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

"Walhalla" means "hall of the dead". "German - Germanic" personalities may be considered for a place in this...

The style blends a modern Art Nouveau style but mirrors some of the architectural influences of nearby buildings such as the Gothic Llotja...

The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado Ri...

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...

Shooting Permits Film and television recordings on public streets, routes and squares as well as in city buildings and areas require au...

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

The Pena National Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Nacional da Pena) is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, municipality of Sintra,...

Although camera movements are often implemented to add excitement to shots, their best use is when new information is revealed. At the beg...

Trier lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border w...

Kitsch ( loanword from German, also called cheesiness and tackiness) is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or ...

BRAND FIVE James Sinclair, 1960s, Super 8, color, silent, 7:57 Location: Germany [?] Shown at Home Movie Day Raleigh, North Carolin...

A film release refers to the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public exhibition of the film. The exhibition may be in t...

  Subjective camera: The camera is used in such a way as to suggest the point of view of a particular character. High- or low-angle shot...

A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film...

The Walt Disney Studios is an American film studio, one of the five major businesses of The Walt Disney Company and the main component of ...

Dubbing, mixing, or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplement...

Forced perspective in filmmakin. Forced perspective can be made more believable when environmental conditions obscure the difference in p...

Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect. Lighting includes the use of both arti...

The Caminhos do Cinema Português (Portuguese: Paths for Portuguese Cinema) is the only festival of exclusively Portuguese cinema, held in ...

Paris has the highest density of cinemas in the world, measured by the number of movie theaters per inhabitant, and that in most "do...

Shot with :The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats for the NTSC and PAL/SECAM television systems. Th...

Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), formerly known as Santa Catarina Airport (and informally known as Funchal Airport), is an interna...

Set construction is the process undertaken by a construction manager to build full-scale scenery suitable for viewing by camera, as specif...

The château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (German: Hohkönigsburg) is a medieval castle located at Orschwiller, Alsace, France, in the Vosges mountai...

In the United States, a midnight movie is a B movie or cult film shown at midnight, either at a cinema or on television. The practice s...

180-degree rule A basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within...

In 1965, Super-8 film was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker. It featured a better quality image, and was easier to...

Bavaria Film GmbH is one of the most venerable media companies in Europe. A traditional film studio founded in 1919 in Geiselgasteig on th...

The role of the filmmaker is changing, from one who records images through a lens to one who curates images from an existing database of f...

This is one of my first films in super 8 mm, it is part of a holiday film which was nominated for an (amateur film) price more than 35 yea...

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height. It is commonly expressed as two nu...

The American Cinematographer Manual is a filmmaking manual published by the American Society of Cinematographers. Covering lighting, lense...

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes ...

Expo '98 was an official specialised World's Fair held in Lisbon, Portugal from Friday, 22 May to Wednesday, 30 September 1998. T...

Alsatian cuisine, somewhat based on Germanic culinary traditions, is marked by the use of pork in various forms. It is perhaps mostly kno...

The technological boundaries between home-movie-making and professional movie-making are becoming increasingly blurred as prosumer equipme...

Camping holiday at the border of lake Mosja in Lillehammar Norway  In 1980, the consumer market for Super 8 collapsed. Most of the ind...

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

The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established....

In art, theme is usually about life, society or human nature, but can be any other subject. Themes are the fundamental and often universal...

See original of that time   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCs87Wru6ek Most early filmmakers—such as Thomas Edison, Auguste and Louis L...

Viva, vive, and vivat are interjections used in the Romance languages. Viva in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, Vive in French, and Viva...

The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a...

Visual anthropology is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new m...

Lake Garda (Italian: Lago di Garda [ˈlaːɡo di ˈɡarda] or Lago Bènaco, Latin: Benacus; Lombard: Lach de Garda; Venetian: Łago de Garda) is ...

Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film im...

Salamanca (population 160,000) is a city in central Spain.The city was founded in the pre-Roman period by Vacceos, an indigenous tribe, as...