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

A trailer or preview is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema. The term ...

Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Reims) is the seat of the Archdiocese of Reims, where the kings of France were crowned. The cathedral rep...

One can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and...

Sights The German Timber-Frame Road, which covers Germany from north to south, joins unique landscapes, historic sites and carefully rest...

Fellinis Fantastic TV Commercials In 1984, when he was 64 years old, Fellini agreed to make a miniature film featuring Campari, the fam...

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

The Rijksmuseum Lets You Remix Its Art The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the grand European museums. Home to many of the Dutch m...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constr...

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the...

Marten Toonder may well go down in history as the most important Dutch author of comics. Undoubtedly, there is no comic artist who has put ...

The Rijksmuseum (English: State Museum) is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The muse...

With the arrival of commercially viable charge-coupled device (CCD) technology in the 1980s, first the pickup video-tubes were replaced wi...

Creative Commons just reached an exciting milestone. As of this week, there are four million Creative Commons–licensed videos on YouTube. T...

The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life...

Duderstadt 180m, in the district Goettingen in southern Lower Saxony. Panoramic over the rooves of the town. Construction of the Rathau...

Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of optical effects and mechanical effects. With the emergence of digital fil...

The film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organization...

One can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and...

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...