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

A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slight...

Funfair (UK English) often simply called "fair", "county fair", or "state fair", is a small to medium sized t...

Children are born with certain innate biological dispositions as a product of long evolutionary history. This provides an underlying biolo...

Antwerpen is located on the right (eastern) bank of the river Scheldt, which is linked to the North Sea by the estuary Westerschelde. The...

  Film style is distinct from film genre, which categorizes films based on similar narrative structures. For instance, Western films are abo...

Sauerland, region, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It is bounded on the north by the Ruhr River and its tributa...

  In 1902, Pathé acquired the Lumière brothers' patents and then set about to design an improved studio camera and to make their own fil...

Today film studies exists worldwide as a discipline with specific schools dedicated to it. The aspects of film studies have grown to encomp...

Gaudí moved towards Modernisme, then in its heyday. Modernisme in its earlier stages was inspired by historic architecture. Its practitio...

Filmtips: Compression Now that DV video has become mainsteam, sharing your video has become just as important. However, if you want peo...

  A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game or television program. These screenplays can be original ...

An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship ...

A character (or fictional character) is a person in a narrative work of arts (such as a novel, play, television series or film). Character,...

Most films have between 40 and 120 minutes of music. However, some films have very little or no music; others may feature a score that play...

Barcelona is an album recorded by Freddie Mercury, frontman of popular British rock band Queen, and operatic soprano Montserrat Caballé. Re...

The international organization for amateur film makers is UNICA (Union International du Cinema Non Professionel); in the United States the ...

Popular practices include wearing masks and costumes, overturning social conventions, dancing, sports competitions, parades, etc. Similar e...

A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive para...

Johan de Witt or Jan de Witt, was a key figure in Dutch politics in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of gl...

A film festival is an extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. Mor...

The Boves The Boves, a well-preserved underground network of galleries 10 meters beneath the city, was built in the 10th century and can n...

Buildings of the Amsterdam School are characterized by brick construction with complicated masonry with a rounded or organic appearance,...

Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more...

Independent filmmakers have also pressed low-cost consumer and prosumer cameras into service for digital filmmaking. Though image quality i...

The Poble Espanyol "Spanish Town" is an open-air architectural museum, located on the mountain of Montjuïc, in the city of Barc...

Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical s...

  A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concent...

A 3-D (three-dimensional) film or S3D (stereoscopic 3D) film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception. Derive...

The Super 8 plastic cartridge is probably the fastest loading film system ever developed, as it can be loaded into the Super 8 camera in l...

Potpourri is a kind of musical form structured as ABCDEF..., the same as medley or, sometimes, fantasia. It is often used in light, easy-g...

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

Digital Video Effects, commonly called DVEs, are visual effects that provide comprehensive video image manipulation, in the same form as o...

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to Fren...

A costume drama or period drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture th...

Swedish cinema is known as producing many critically acclaimed movies, and during the 20th century was the most prominent of Scandinavia. T...

Amateur usage of Super 8 has been largely replaced by video, but the format is often used by professionals in music videos, TV commercials...

Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the ne...

A tapeless camcorder is a camcorder that does not use videotape to store its data. Common alternatives include flash memory (such as Secur...

Barcelona: La Seu Whilst an important contributor to Western art (particularly influenced by Italy and France, especially during the Ba...

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, tr...

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...

Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the count...

Muiden is a pleasant town in the Netherlands of approximately 4000 people, on the shores of the IJmeer, at the mouth of the Vecht river. ...

Film can be described as all of the following: One of the visual arts – visual arts is a class of art forms, including painting, sculptur...

Underwater Filming Pinewood has limitless options for filming in or around water, the studios boast: The only permanently filled under...

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was the scene of the Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany...

"Bread and circuses" is a metaphors for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to descri...

Holiday home Anita is located in the small village of Debodes, on the foot of Picos de Europe. 18 km south is the famous coastal city Llane...

Mardi Gras also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after th...