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

The Tropenmuseum (English: Museum of the Tropics) is an anthropological museum One of the largest museums in Amsterdam, the museum accommo...

The Darkroom of Damocles (Dutch: De donkere kamer van Damokles) is a war novel by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans, published in 1...

The history of Uzès: The first dwellers here established a base around the source of the Eure. The Romans, attracted by the spring's...

In 1933 Philips Eindhoven had a "CineSonor" department for cinema equipment production. Philips in those days also was involved...

In the context of motion pictures and television, sound effects refers to an entire hierarchy of sound elements, whose production encompa...

  To participate in the digital age requires a certain kind of visual thinking. Whether creating a snazzy website layout, capturing artsy pi...

Film editing is not what you think it is. It is not just "slicing and dicing" digital video but rather film editing is the highe...

Orpheus was son of the great Olympian god Apollo. Orpheus was so sad about the loss of his love that he composed music to express the te...

Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or rented/hired for home cinema entertainment. The term origin...

One of the largest museums in Amsterdam, the museum accommodates eight permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of temporary exhibition...

  Script, direction and montage: Nandini Bedi Camera: Gargi Trivedi Sound: Chandrashekhar Recorded: 2007 This film is on display in the...

A video mashup (also written as video mash-up) is the combination of multiple sources of videos which usually have no relation with eac...

Avignon Festival A famous theatre festival is held annually in Avignon. Founded in 1947, the Avignon Festival comprises traditional the...

The One Minutes were launched in 1998 and by now it has developed into a global network with makers from 100 countries and an archive of 1...

The Cevennes region is rich in high-quality local produce, a history of isolation and poverty having long driven the populations of these m...

“ We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when...

Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place w...

There have been several proposals and studies for a project to build a replica ship based on the Titanic. A project by South African busin...

The term nostalgia describes a sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The wor...

In colorfilm, light-sensitive chemicals or electronic sensors record color information at the time of exposure. This is usually done by an...

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...