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

  For a still shot you can always use a tripod or other flat surface to rest the camera on. Too many action shots in a row can get kind of...

Maastricht  is a city in the Netherlands. It is located in the southern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, of which it is the capital. ...

The Jodenbreestraat  is a street in the centre of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In the 17th century, many Jewish emigrants from Portugal ...

What does a city do with an 800-year-old church with no congregation? Well, it could make like the Dutch and convert it into a temple of bo...

The most famous of the Lords of Bouillon was Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jeru...

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

Internet activism (also known as online organizing, electronic advocacy, cyberactivism, E-campaigning, and E-activism) is the use of electr...

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. Footage from...

The Hollandsche Schouwburg (Dutch Theater), where the Jews of Amsterdam had to report themselfs prior to their deportation to the Westerbor...

The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest di...

Many people take the moving image for granted. They frequently assume that the images they see are a true and accurate portrayal of the ...

Video compression is needed to change our large video files into smaller video files so that they can be shared more easily and viewed o...

A good, sturdy tripod will let you get smooth pan or tilt movements, but for any other movements you could benefit from a home-made steadi...

Collage in Film Definition: Collage film is traditionally defined as, “A film that juxtaposes fictional scenes with footage taken fro...

For this you need a few rules. Otherwise it brings anarchy or the law of the one with the loudest voice . And too many rules is another de...

On December 12, 1670, the Sephardic Jewish community of Amsterdam acquired the site to build a synagogue. On August 2, 1675, the Esnoga was...

Short films are often used as the starting place for new filmmakers, but others use them as an art form unto themselves, allowing the f...

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...