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

Forget Form. There is No Form. So what is a screenplay, or what might it be? A screenplay is an exploration. It’s about the thing you don...

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negativ...

In video display technology, panning refers to the horizontal scrolling of an image that is wider than the display. Panning a camera re...

      Go widescreen? Video in general is slowly moving away from a square aspect ratio (like old TVs) to widescreen. Traditional TV is prese...

Discontinuous editing describes the deliberate or accidental violation of rules of continuity when editing films. The viewer's expecta...

  Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another...

The first color systems that appeared in motion pictures were additive color systems. Additive color was practical because no special color...

What Exactly is Karst? Karst is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and gypsum. It is c...

The Inner German border was the frontier between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1990. Not ...

Wayang Kulit in Central Java is probably one of the oldest continuous traditions of storytelling in the world, and certainly among the most...

The Documentary film of the Netherlands has long been renowned world wide. The most prominent Dutch directors, especially those who starte...

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

  The Scene Machine Live (TSML) is/ was an interactive installation that presents the public with an accessible way into the film collectio...

A clip or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, mostly produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music vi...

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 ...