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  A walk through this nice and attractive northern French city The history of AMIENS is enriched by its local traditions and its inhabitan...

  Amiens Cath edral, the tallest of the large, classic, Gothic churches of the 13th century and the largest in France of it s kind, is a Wo...

Since filming is not allowed inside I made use of found footage for the interior Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a met...

Even Shakespeare used slang. A simple internet search reveals that. It’s a different story that his lingo influenced most of the English l...

an impression of the living conditions of a foreign student Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university...

A film school may be part of an existing public or private college or university, or part of a privately owned for-profit institution. Dep...

Cinéma vérité (or the closely related direct cinema) was dependent on some technical advances in order to exist: light, quiet and reliable...

Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden. Movies shot there include Fucking Åmål...

A slide show may be a presentation of images purely for their own visual interest or artistic value, sometimes unaccompanied by descriptio...

Gaudí's work was influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature, and religion. Gaudí considered every detail of his creation...

In Japan, Striped, Spotted, Risso's, and Bottlenose dolphins are most commonly hunted, but several other species such as the False Kil...

Park Hilaria is the biggest fun fair in Eindhoven. It takes place for 10 days in the summer every year at the JF Kennedylaan, close to whe...

In film and video, a cutaway shot is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually...

;St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Founded in 1703 by Emperor Peter the Great as his "window to the We...

Camera BasicsHolding: Single HandOne basic technique is holding your camera with one hand and supporting that elbow with your free hand. ...

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Stories or nar...

"Deze remix is gemaakt in het kader van Celluloid Remix en bevat speciaal geselecteerd materiaal uit de collectie van het Filmmuseu...

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...