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

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in t...

Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the l...

  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division ...

The Basque Country: Euskadi is an autonomous community of northern Spain. The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community was granted t...

Super 8 mm film (often simply called Super 8) is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the ol...

Keep your audience interested The most important job of any storyteller is to keep the audience interested, and avoid disorienting them in...

A match is a small stick of wood or strip of cardboard with a solidified mixture of flammable chemicals deposited on one end. When that en...

The Western genre sometimes portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature in the name of civilization or the conf...

Users nowadays create their own content. There is no longer one truth provided by one source, but instead thereâs an system of truths provi...

In the performing arts, a scenario  from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced  is a synoptical collage of an event or s...

Alsace is one of the great, under-appreciated treasures of the wine world. This pretty enclave of fairytale villages in the lee of the for...

Many compact digital cameras can perform both an optical and a digital zoom. A camera performs an optical zoom by moving the zoom lens so...

Blogging has also introduced opportunities for a new wave of amateur film critics to have their opinions heard. These review blogs may foc...

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

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such d...

In the all night cafe At a quarter past eleven, Same old man is sitting there on his own Looking at the world Over the rim of his tea-cup,...

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...