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

An axial cut is a type of jump cut, where the camera suddenly moves closer to or further away from its subject, along an invisible line dr...

The earliest films were simply one static shot that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques. Around the...

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome ...

Birds Eye View (BEV) is an organisation established in 2002 to celebrate and support women's work in film, most notably by way of an an...

Film distribution is the process through which a film is made available for viewing by an audience. This is normally the task of a profess...

Ain is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. Being part of the region Rhône-Alpes and bordered by the rive...

Growth in video journalism coincides with changes in video technology and falling costs. As quality cameras and non-linear editing system(...

A DVD documentary is a documentary film of indeterminate length that has been produced with the sole intent of releasing it for direct sal...

Home video editing Like many other technologies, the cost of video editing has declined by an order of magnitude or more. Nearly any home...

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

Historically the most common use of churchyards was as a consecrated burial ground known as a graveyard. Graveyards were usually establish...

Art films are aimed at small niche market audiences, which means they can rarely get the financial backing which will permit large producti...

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

In cinematography, a take refers to each filmed "version" of a particular shot or "setup". Takes of each shot are gener...

Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated/direct-down position. Usually the camera is not supported b...

In the past, most independent filmmakers have relied on film festivals to get their films noticed and sold for distribution. However, the I...

A narrator is, within any story of a movie, the person who tells the story to the audience. When the narrator is also a character within t...

    The 20th century is not the first to create images of life during medieval times. The Middle Ages ended over five centuries ago and ...

A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film (na...

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for ...

In motion picture terminology, a tracking shot (also known as a dolly shot or trucking shot) is a segment in which the camera is mounted o...

The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday 31 January 1953 and morning of 1...

Insert (filmmaking) In film, an insert is a shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from the master s...

Filminfo: A cinematograph is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890 Popular th...

Filminfo Aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is vie...

"Screen direction" is a term used in motion picture and video editing and refers to an underlying concept of cinematic grammar wh...

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptio...

Waterproof digital cameras are digital cameras that can make pictures underwater. Before developing waterproof digital cameras we were abl...

A freeze frame shot is used when one shot is printed in a single frame several times, in order to make an interesting illusion of a still ...

Film production occurs in three stages: Pre-production —Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and film crew are hired, loca...

21st century work mostly uses digital cinematography and has no film stocks but the cameras themselves can be adjusted in ways that go fa...

Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it ...

A theatrical property, commonly referred to as a prop, is an object used on stage by actors to further the plot or story line of a theat...

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...

There are notable films that are primarily about and/or feature animals. Films involving dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are inclu...

With the advent of digital editing, film editors and their assistants have become responsible for many areas of filmmaking that used to be...

In 1868, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt developed a plastic material he named Celluloid, improving on Parkes' invention by plast...

Good location managers are well poised and able to think fast on their feet as they are constantly moving, usually preceding production to...

; A director's cut is a specially edited version of a film, a that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit. ...

Swedish cinema is known for including many acclaimed movies; during the 20th century the industry was the most prominent of Scandinavia...

Editing Dialog (a conversation) In contrast with action scenes, a conversation is edited based on the rhythm of the dialog as the actor...

Conversation vs. Action Action sequences are scenes where there is no dialog. Conversations are scenes ) where the actors continually tal...

A cult film (also known as a cult movie/picture or a cult classic) is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fan...

A story told to tourists about the origins of the 1691 version of the bridge is that it was built by two wealthy sisters who lived on oppo...

Close-ups are used in many ways, for many reasons. Close-ups are often used as cutaways from a more distant shot to show detail, such as ch...

Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (Either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video cameras or digi...

Amidst a landscape of 'garrigues' (Mediterranean scrubland) between the Cévennes and Montpellier, Pic St-Loup stands like a steep-...

A pocket video camera is a tapeless camcorder that is small enough to be carried in one's pocket. Most pocket video cameras resemble...

A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire ...

Continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the viewer over some period of time....

Day for night, also known as nuit américaine ("American night"), is the name for cinematographic techniques used to simulat...