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In the field of special effects a miniature effect is a special effect generated by the use of scale models. Scale models are often combin...

  A compilation film, or compilation movie is a film composed of scenes and shots taken from two or more prior films and edited together so ...

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

In filmmaking, a pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screen...

A Steadicam is a stabilizing mount for a motion picture camera, which mechanically isolates the operator's movement from the camera, a...

Color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors  An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific color...

Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the or...

A photo slideshow is a collection of images to be displayed, usually in public. Early slideshows were often presented using a slide projec...

At the edge of France and Spain, the Pays Basque is diverse in both landscape and culture. The Pays Basque is the French half of the forme...

France was the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions.Several important cinematic move...

The terms balnea or thermae were the words the ancient Romans used for the buildings housing their public baths. Most Roman cities had a...

runtime 4 minutes Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. It is the largest volcano i...

LanguageFilm is considered to have its own language. James Monaco wrote a classic text on film theory titled "How to Read a Film...

In filmmaking and video production, pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit. At this stage, finalizing preparation...

Camino de Santiago from anton withagen on Vimeo . Religious broadcasting is broadcasting by religious organizations, usually with a reli...

Hitchcock decided to do without any conventional incidental score. Instead, he made use of sound effects and sparse source music in counter...

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...