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

In photography, panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a still or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontal...

The Elephant Man is a 1980 drama film based on the story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19...

Although particularly associated with the Romans, aqueducts were devised much earlier in the Near East and Indian subcontinent, where peo...

Using Natural Lighting Shooting in full noon-day sun is not recommended as it casts harsh shadows on a person's face. You're bet...

The Altamira Cave, discovered by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in 1879, are located in one of the hills that surround the nice valley wher...

The colonial control of Indonesia had passed from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the Dutch government due to the economic failure...

Filmtips: A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscap...

Bert Haanstra (31 May 1916 23 October 1997) was a famous Dutch film and documentary director and Academy Award winner. Haanstra was ...

Digital Content Creation is a modern term denoting the creation and modification of digital content, such as animation, audio, graphics, im...

  What Is Time-Lapse? To create a time-lapse clip, pictures, or frames as they are called in video and film production, are taken over a ...

HDV is a highly compressed high definition format. As a result, it is not naturally compatible with standard definition televisions or DVD ...

A visit to Easter-Germany a couple of years ago Though it has changed a lot after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are still souvenirs...

On November 11 (the eleventh of the eleventh), at exactly 11:11, is the start of the the carnival season The reason for this date is the ...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that is not custom shot for us...

The fortified city itself consists essentially of a concentric design of two outer walls with 53 towers and barbicans to prevent attack by...

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

The Muiderslot is a Castle in the Netherlands, located at the mouth of the river Vecht, some 15 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, in Muide...

Nájera is a small town located in the "Rioja Alta" region of La Rioja, Spain on the river Najerilla. Nájera is a stopping point o...

Fun is the enjoyment of pleasure, particularly in leisure activities. Fun is an experience - short-term, often unexpected, informal, not c...

Getting the pictures Your images are the meat of the video. Good pictures compel viewers attention and are the proof of your story.Good v...

Naturally wooded, the slopes of the Montjuïc were traditionally used to grow food and graze animals by the people of the neighbouring Ciuta...

In film, a remake is a motion picture based on a film produced earlier. The term remake can refer to everything on the spectrum of reus...

Initially, the Gauls settled an oppidum at the site of what is now the Puy St Clair because it was a site surrounded by cliffs and so easy...

Fictional film, fiction film or narrative film is a film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. In this style o...

The Ardèche is a 125 km long river in south-central France, a right-bank tributary of the River Rhône. Its source is in the Massif Central...

 Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev) The film was the first of Eisenstein's dramatic films to use sound. (The earlier Bezhin Meadow, had al...

  Nordiska museet is Sweden’s largest museum of cultural history. It is home to over one and a half million exhibits, including exclusive it...

Ever since the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer was made in 1929 on Stage 5 of the Warner Bros. lot in Hollywood the movie going public h...

The Filmmuseum is Holland's museum for cinematography. The museum's collection of films covers the whole of the history of cinema ...

The problem with letterboxing is that it shrinks the viewing area of the television screen, which, if you have a small set to begin with, ...

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

During the First World War, Arras was near the front and a series of battles were fought around the city, and nearby Vimy Ridge. A series...

   The first serious attempt to use airplanes in the Arctic occurred in 1923 when Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen--who in 1911 had been th...

Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played ...

Wireless communication is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor. The mo...

The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for rec...

The first films seen in the Russian Empire were brought in by the Lumière brothers, who exhibited films in Moscow and St. Petersburg in May...

Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC.[1] Various coastal communities ha...

The Fyra has a poor reputation for reliability. After a month of operations more than 5% of all trains were cancelled and less than 45% of...

Opinion of Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu “I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used...

Subtitles are derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and t...

Llanes  is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east...

Russian Revolution of 1917 In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the church was ransacked and looted, badly damaging its interior. ...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that is not custom shot for us...

Bad sound: Any seasoned filmmaker will tell you that having good sound is more important than having good images. So, if you're in the...

In the time of Peter the Great, the sea floor just north of the Peterhof site and to the east toward St. Petersburg was too shallow for ...

  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...