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

16:9 (1.77:1) (generally named as "Sixteen-Nine", "Sixteen-by-Nine" and "Sixteen-to-Nine") is the internatio...

Filming- TIPS: - Check your camera battery on a regular basis - Check diskspace on your memory card - Clean your lens with a soft...

A tram (also known. as a tramcar, streetcar, trolley car) is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and ...

Before railroads and highways were developed, the Rhone was an important inland trade and transportation route, connecting the cities of A...

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988...

Islands : Oahu / Maui / Kauai / Big Island Country : Hawaii (USA) When : January 2012 Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby t...

A film leader is a length of film attached to the head or tail of a film to assist in threading a projector or telecine. Leader attached ...

F lashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are of...

January 2012 In 2011, volunteers in B'Tselem's camera project filmed over 500 hours of footage in the West Bank. Here are two minu...

There’s no great mystery to scouting good locations for a film. There’s no template that tells you exactly how to do it, either. Many of t...

The First Photograph On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to N...

filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe. Via the multi-lingual we...

Filmmaking is the process of making a film. The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many H...

Unlike sound for television dramas, a motion picture normally records only the dialog (the spoken words) during production. All the other ...

Both film and digital have their respective advantages and disadvantages. Digital photography provides instant results, and combining this...

Narrative Music Narrative music is completely different. Narrative music is music which tells a story and acts like one of the actors in ...

In filmmaking, the 180° rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or...

The Arena of Nîmes is a Roman amphitheater found in the French city of Nîmes. Built around 70 AD, it was remodeled in 1863 to serve as a b...

An anatomical theatre was usually a room of roughly amphitheatrical shape, in the centre of which would stand the table on which the disse...

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...

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

Film-related podcasts for film-makers. Creative Cow: Useful creative tech news. In depth interviews. Filmmaking Central: Podcast from...

Celluloid Remix This is the second edition of the successful video-remix competition containing historical fragments from EYE's film c...

Any time you have a cut that looks or sounds abrupt, try adding a dissolve to smooth the transition. This effect blends the two video cli...

Bavo was born near Liège, Belgium, to a Frankish noble family that gave him the name Allowin. His father was Pippin of Landen, the Mayor o...

“Light painting” is a photographic technique that uses a light source and long exposure to create the effect of “painting” with light....

; Filmtips: Close-ups are used for distinguishing main characters. Major characters are often given a close-up when they are introduced...

Digital storytelling" is a relatively new term which describes the new practice of ordinary people who use digital tools to tell thei...

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

Until the 13th century Ghent was the biggest city in Europe after Paris; it was bigger than London, Cologne or Moscow. Within the city wa...

Digital point-and-shoot cameras have become widespread consumer products, outselling film cameras, and including new features such as video...

The World Soundtrack Academy (WSA, or World Soundtrack Awards), launched in 2001 by the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, is ai...

The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Dutch Republic and Spain signed in 1648. It was a landmark treaty for the Dutch republic and...

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent whole. A film editor...

In film theory, genre  refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed. Most theorie...

  The bishopric of Muenster covered most of the Northern part of what is now Northrhine-Westphalia. It is mainly flat or hilly at the ...

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

Bicycling Münster The bicycle, also named "Leeze", is the most commonly used means of transport in Münster. A daily total of ...

Maastricht is known for its picturesque squares, romantic streets, and historical buildings.  City Fortifications, including:  Helpoort - a...

The sketchbook is more frequently used in displays of contemporary art, as well as historical retrospectives, now that 'intimate' ...

The Joods Historisch Museum  is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide....

Filmtips: A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film'...

Diegetic sound is that which is to have actually occurred within the story during the action being viewed. It is sound that comes from wit...

  When the citizens of Amsterdam decided in the 17th century to extend their town, they dug their city canals in semicircles around the old ...

In the 12th century the county of Tecklenburg emerged in the region that is now called the "Tecklenburger Land" in the western...

Use colour wisely In some films, the directors have made choices about how the colour of their film will influence the atmosphere. How can...

The Jordaan is a district of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Originally a working-class neighbourhood, the Jordaan has become...

  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. ...