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The illusions or tricks of the eye used in the film, television, theatre, video game, and simulator industries to simulate the imagined ev...

The Camino de Santiago also known by the English names Way of St. James, St. James's Way, St. James's Path, St. James's Trail...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are oft...

The fortress was established by Peter the Great on May 16 1703 on small Hare Island by the north bank of the Neva River, the last upstream...

  Fairy tales have been enacted dramatically; records exist of this in commedia dell'arte, and later in pantomime. Unlike oral and liter...

Aerial shots are usually done with a crane or with a camera attached to a special helicopter to view large landscapes. This sort of shot...

We've had the vinyl revival - now physical film is making a comeback. The Kodak Super 8 camera puts a digital spin on a 52-year-old fo...

  Online editing is the process of reassembling the edit to full resolution video after an offline edit has been performed. It is done in th...

Films can also be classified by the setting, theme, topic, mood, format, target audience or budget. The setting is the milieu or environme...

Richard Linklater “There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything’s a story, everyone’s got...

Puente La Reina (Spanish meaning literally the "bridge of the Queen"; Basque: Gares) is a town and municipality located in the a...

Turenne is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Limousin region in central France. It is characterised by its height and unique posi...

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...