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

T his video shows the famous cheese market of Alkmaar just after the end of World War II, as well as to day. The narration of the newsreel ...

Parallel editing (cross cutting) is the technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in different locat...

Süskind 1942. In an attempt to keep a group of children from being sent to the death camps, the Jew Walter Süskind befriends SS man Aus...

A high speed camera is a device used for recording fast moving objects . After recording, the images stored on the media can be played back...

Subjective camera: The camera is used in such a way as to suggest the point of view of a particular character. High- or low-angle shots i...

Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and ...

Today information graphics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals. They il...

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 d...

Originality is the aspect of created or invented works by as being new or novel, and thus can be distinguished from reproductions, clones,...

Filmtips: In cinema, butterfly is a methodology of lighting sets. When controlling light, grips use a variety of flags (black, opaque...

User-generated content (UGC), refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users. The term us...

A webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi. Th...

  Tracking shot/travelling shot/dollying shot: Terms used for a shot when the camera is being moved by means of wheels: On a dolly (a low tr...

The use of available light may pose a challenger. The brightness and direction of the light is often not adjustable, except perhaps for ind...

This village can boast about being amongst one of the most beautiful villages in France. It has narrow cobbled streets which thread their...

The simplest transition between shots it is a straight cut, which is an abrupt transition between two shots. Another type of transition i...

A soundbite is an audiolinguistic and social communications phenomenon whose nature was recognized in the late 20th century, helped by peo...

In science and engineering, a black box is a device, system or object which can be viewed solely in terms of its input, output and transf...

Transitions blend two shots together, rather than simply joining them end to end. Often transitions are used to imply a passage of time. ...

Since the birth of sound film, virtually all film projectors in commercial movie theaters project at a constant speed of 24 frame/s. This ...

A road movie is a film genre in which the main character or characters leave home to travel from place to place. They usually leave home to...

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concent...

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title ...

In cinematography, the use of light can influence the meaning of a shot. For example, film makers often portray villains that are heavily s...

Cinematography is an art form unique to motion pictures. Although the exposing of images on light-sensitive elements dates back to the earl...

Lighting Digital Video White balance. As the DV standard has a low color-resolution, it is important to control and know how to filter a...

Match cut: The exact opposite of a jump cut within a scene. These cuts make sure that there is a spatial-visual logic between the differ...

Historically, video frames were represented as analog waveforms in which varying voltages represented the intensity of light in an analog...

The cinematography etymologically means "movement" because it comes from the greek "kine" (movement) and "grafos...

About FloraHolland The Netherlands is the heart of the international floriculture sector. It has an intricate and high-quality network of...

Montage play  is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and infor...

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 ...