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

The old city is spectacularly situated atop a long, narrow promontory. It contains a wealth of monuments, including the cathedral, a famous...

Belvedere in Italian literally means fair view.It is used as a generic architectural term but it has been used to name buildingsor places ...

Road movieIn general, road movies are a cinematic genre in which the action takes places during a road journey or a vehicle-based film lik...

The title of the "Norman Switzerland", was given in 1932 by Mr Gourdeau, Minister of Tourism In the feudal era, castles and mos...

A video mashup is the combination of multiple sources of videos which usually have no relation with each other, other than a derivative wo...

WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video to fight injustice, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools tha...

Witness that will bring about change in policies, law or people's behavior. And we define "video advocacy" as using visual m...

September 1847: With skill, experience, vigor, and ideas of his own, Carl Zeiss starts making microscopes on his new premises. These are si...

When the commercial whaling moratorium was introduced by the IWC in 1982, Japan lodged an official objection, but withdrew this objection i...

Stagecraft is a generic term referring to the technical aspects of theatrical, film, and video production. It includes, but is not limited ...

BeauneBeaune is a commune in eastern France, a sous-prefecture of the Cote-d'Or departement, in the Bourgogne region.The area around B...

Tips: Work towards the best possible production value for your videos to ensure viewers don’t click away just because you’ve ignored basi...

Post-production, or postproduction, is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, and photography. It occurs in the making of mo...

The footage I used in this remix of mine, comes from internet blogs and the sound from a radiocast from a famous Dutch DJ who on his turn h...

It is hard to convince others that you are a professional using top-rate technology when your equipment appears to be the same as a squeal...

Hi-definition video cameras have recently arrived (1080i) which, like high definition television screens, will provide the best of quality ...

The Ore Mountains were virtually unsettled during the Middle Ages and covered with dense forests. In the 15th century the discovery of silv...

The 20th century is not the first to create images of life during medieval times. The Middle Ages ended over five centuries ago and ea...

Still/video combinations Most current digital still cameras are also capable of what is sometimes referred to as "Internet Video...

The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for r...

The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than ...

Sentences are often used in metaphors about the “grammar of film editing”, but while it’s true that each shot generally contains more info...

Literal lines do not exist in nature, but are the optical phenomena created when objects curve away from the viewer. Nonetheless, line-l...

A FORGOTTEN MEMORY "INA has collected private collections of film. It has built up an archive of family films and undisclosed amateu...

Film distribution is changing. In addition to the major marketplaces, there are about 200 internet platforms (and growing) where you can ...

MPEG Streamclip What it does: Put simply, MPEG Streamclip is a video transcoder and compressor. It takes a video file and converts it into...

The Castle has been renovated throughout its existence with many earlier parts being overbuilt by later constructions and additions. From...

Time Since space and time are unified, the motion through space impacts time: time slows down for the person who is moving but goes fast...

Several institutes, both government run and private, provide formal education in various aspects of filmmaking. Deutsche Film- und Fernseh...

Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects which are added in post production to enhance the quality of audio for films, televisi...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic ...

Erfurt Cathedral (German: Dom, Mariensdom, or Domberg St Marien) is an impressive Gothic cathedral with some Romanesque parts situated on ...

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 tra...

A citadel is a fortress protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle. The term derives from the same Latin root as the word "c...

Sevilla is the most successful club in Andalusia, winning a national league title in 1945–46 , and five Copas del Rey . On the European le...

A rope is a length of fibres, twisted or braided together to improve strength for pulling and connecting. It has tensile strength but is t...

The Museo Picasso Málaga is a museum in Málaga, the city where artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born. It opened in 2003 in the Buenavista Pala...

The magnificent Castillo de Gibralfaro sits on a high hill overlooking Malaga city and port, and dates back to the 10th century. The i...

On rare occasions, 360° panoramic movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces—typically at theme parks, world's...

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

If film was the most influential medium, Hollywood was the most influential image maker. Hollywood films reached a global audience through ...

Clip culture The widespread popularity of video clips, with the aid of new distribution channels, has evolved into 'clip culture'....

Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France, in which one or more bulls are baited, and then killed in a bu...

An alcazaba is a Moorish fortification in Spain and Portugal. The word derives from the Arabic word .al-qasbah), a walled-fortification in...

The Orkest Zonder Naam (Nameless Orchestra) was the orchestra of the catholic broadcasting corporation KRO during the pillarization of D...

The Port of Malaga is situated in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, sheltered by a natural b...