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

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, telev...

Editing is one of the most powerful filmmaking tools. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you want to make movies and tell stori...

Sports movies have been made since the era of silent films, such as the 1915 film The Champion starring Charlie Chaplin. Films in this genr...

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or leading,...

According to Walter Murch, when it comes to film editing, there are five main criteria for evaluating a cut or deciding where to cut. They...

Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain and an officially recognized nationality. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Gir...

A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home to travel from place to place, typically altering the perspective fro...

; Once in a wile we went with our super8 filmclub to an interesting place to shoot some footage. I choose for a laugh-theme. Unfortunatel...

Travelogues are credited with helping cultivating the interest in the travel industry at the same time transportation infrastructure was be...

  Made this video with a good friend of mine, when we all had our annual outdoor trip with the amateur-filmclub Lumiere from Eindhoven. Foot...

Castle was a place where we had a salesmeeting in the 70 years inlast century. a super 8 film. Nideggen is a town in the district of Düren...

A super 8 mm movie The typical costume of the Burgundian Carnaval has developed in the prosperous cities of the Duchy of Brabant and Co...

  A virtual zoo is a new concept that uses the zoo model in a web format . Virtual zoos are basically websites that are created to simulate ...

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. These films are designed to entertain the audience through amuseme...

Using an iPad is easier than using a DSLR or camcorder for many reasons. One big reason is the size of the screen. Your iPad is your mon...

A lava flow is a moving outpouring of lava, which is created during a non-explosive effusive eruption. When it has stopped moving, lava s...

TRAJAN FORUMThis Forum celebrates Trajans campaign in the territory that is now Romania and is the largest and most recent of Romes imperi...

Tournon-sur-RhoneTournon acts as a gateway to the Ardeche and lies at the foot of granite hills which rise up from the Vallee du Doux. A p...

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, ...

Many films are made with film formats that are wider than video's standard 4:3 aspect ratio. Where possible shoot proper widescreen vi...

Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community toward some cause or position by presenting ...

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the...

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film music or incidental music) is original music written specific...

In film, film grammar is defined as follows: A frame is a single still image. It is analogous to a letter. A shot is a single continuou...

A webcam is a video camera that feeds or streams its image in real time to or through a computer to computer network. When "capture...

World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-English sp...

Video is increasingly serving as evidence in a broad range of legal settings, but there are currently no universal concrete standards for ...

Not that they didn’t have that before. iPhones have been used to make shorts and other types of films before—there are even multiple iPhon...

Nowadays, Trastevere maintains its character thanks to its narrow cobbled streets lined by medieval houses. At night, natives and tourists...

The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century. While film production reached an all-time high in 1936, the ...

The film industry began as a visual medium in which artists could be seen acting out stories on the silver screen, but in recent decades i...

What is an orphan film? Narrowly defined, it's a motion picture abandoned by its owner or caretaker. More generally, the term refer...

Teach Yourself The Technology of Film Making If you cannot afford to go to Hollywood or go to film school, you can teach yourself by usin...

The 1937 Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act makes it an offence to distribute or exhibit a film whose creation involved actual cruelty to a...

The art of motion-picture making within the Kingdom of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema. In ...

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

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their de...

Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another...

Super 8 was most widely used for filming home movies. Over its history, which actually began with 8m m in 1932, billions of home memories ...

Cinema of France refers to the film industry based in France. The French cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within ...

The explosion of content on the Internet has many media companies racing to experiment with new forms of media and grappling with ever mo...

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

Vignetting is often an unintended and undesired effect caused by camera settings or lens limitations. However, it is sometimes deliberatel...

A character sketch is an abbreviated portrayal of a particular characteristic of people. The term originates in portraiture, where the cha...

The identity of the British industry, and its relationship with Hollywood, has been the subject of debate. The history of film production ...

The word critic comes from the Greek, kritikós - one who discerns, which itself arises from the Ancient Greek word krités, meaning a perso...

A road film is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday...

The movie industry was born in Paris when Auguste and Louis Lumière projected the first motion picture for a paying audience at the Grand ...

Marburg remains a relatively unspoilt, spire-dominated, castle-crowned Gothic/Renaissance city on a hill partly because it was isolated b...