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

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets con...

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to...

A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually on televisi...

Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing producti...

  In production, the film is created and shot. In this phase, it is key to keep planning ahead of the daily shoot. The primary aim is to sti...

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a m...

The term "low key" is used in cinematography to refer to any scene with a high lighting ratio, especially if there is a predomin...

The embouchure is the use of facial muscles and the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. The proper embouchure a...

Once upon a time the even Philips Factories were involved in filmmaking . See: Willem van Orange on this site. The film industry or moti...

Elephants Dream (code-named Orange) is a computer-generated short film that was produced almost completely using the free software 3D suit...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constr...

A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly f...

Remastering Remastering is the process of making a new master for an album, movie, or any other creation. It tends to refer to the proces...

The ease and accuracy of tape editing, as compared to the cumbersome disc-to-disc editing procedures previously in some limited use, toget...

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

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

The introduction of Kodachrome color reversal film for 16 mm in 1935, and for 8 mm in 1936, facilitated home color cinematography. The avai...

Mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many peop...

The phrase "lost film" can also be used in a literal sense for instances where footage of deleted scenes, unedited, and alternat...

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, movie soundtrack, film music or incidental music) is original musi...

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or local...

  filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe. Via the multi-lingual we...

This film was made with a simple super 8 fixed focus camera by my daughter when she was 11/12 years old. With the transformation to digita...

The city is famous for its nickname "The Green City" (25m2 - 270sqft of park/garden/playground per inhabitant)Webring:independen...

  A nature documentary is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on film taken...

The single-camera setup is a method of shooting films and television programs. A single camera either film or video is employed on the set...

Audio mixing is used for sound recording, audio editing, and sound systems to balance the relative volume, frequency, and dynamic content ...

Audio mixing is used for sound recording, audio editing, and sound systems to balance the relative volume, frequency, and dynamic content ...

A parade with folklore-groups from all over the world   A historical drama (also period drama , costume drama , and period piece ) is a d...

Crossfading crossfader on a dj mixer essentially functions like two faders connected side-by-side, but in opposite directions. It allows ...

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is bas ed on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document...

  A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living cre...

Cotes-de-Bourg is a wine region around the small town of Bourg-sur-Gironde near Bordeaux, France. The first vineyards in the area were fou...

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and informatio...

Amateur Film is the low-budget hobbyist art of film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for business purposes.The international or...

The storm surge barrier of the Oosterschelde is, without any doubt, the most impressive storm surging structure of the Netherlands.The sto...

The silent 16 mm format was initially aimed at the home enthusiast, but by the 1930s it had begun to make inroads into the educational mar...

an old super 8 mm movie Gardening has been very popular in Holland at least since the renaissance and today Holland is the centre of Euro...

Puppet film develops on the basis of traditional puppetry. It is in the form of a film that the main characters are puppets. Puppets’ limb...

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

A quote from Truffaut: “To be a film critic helped me a lot because it’s not enough to be a cinephile and to watch a lot of movies. The n...

The Center for Home Movies advocates the preservation of films within the household. Often called “family films,” home movies are likely t...

A Super 8mm camera is a motion picture camera specifically manufactured to use the Super 8mm motion picture format. Super 8mm film cameras ...

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision looks after, and provides access to 70% of the Dutch audio-visual heritage. In total, aroun...

Stop Buying Filmmaking Equipment and Make Something Despite all the good, some of the time, these advances have stopped filmmakers on the...

As an economically and socially advanced nation, the Netherlands is a low-lying nation, with a sophisticated agricultural sector and high p...

Following the independence of Indonesia in 1945, the scope of the museum changed from just the colonial possessions of the Netherlands, t...