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

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands held at the e...

A sound bite (alternatively written as sound byte[1]) is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often use...

A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking , including such subjects as film production , f...

One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes a...

Renaissance intermezzo The Renaissance intermezzo was also called the intermedio. It was a masque-like dramatic piece with music, which w...

One of a video editor’s main decisions is whether to actually include a shot/scene or not. Does the scene/shot add to the story or does ...

In the early 20th century, Russian filmmaker and theorist Lev Kuleshov discovered that a single shot of an actor with an ambiguous express...

  The essentials of audio production in the video world. First is the audio delivery format. In the old days, we had to produce separate mo...

The mountain of Montserrat has been of religious significance since pre-Christian times, when the Romans built a temple to honor Venus. B...

A trailer (also known as a preview or coming attraction) is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in...

What is a Sequence? When you take a wide shot, put it together with three medium-shots and two close-ups in order to show that someone ma...

In several shorts and in long documentaries like Alleman / The Human Dutch and Stem van het water / The Voice of the Water Haansta reflect...

Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on the nature of the films they accompany. The majority of scores ...

A television film (also known as a TV film; television movie; TV movie; telefilm; telemovie; made-for-television film; direct-to-TV film; ...

Erotic film is less sexually explicit than hardcore pornography. The visual representation of genitalia (full nudity) is increasingly in fi...

Commedia dell'arte is a form of theater characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century and was res...

  Science fiction can trace its roots back to ancient mythology, and is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction, and contains many...

TRAILER AND FILM " welcome in our beighbourhood" see else on this site The TV image is composed of many lines of pixels. Ideal...

The IMDB for Film and TV lists over 280 feature films, tv specials and series where Denver served as the location. Given the varied and s...

William Tell Set in the early 14th century (traditional date 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg), the first written records of t...

Today the video camera is as commonplace as the television set. In the early years of cinema it was hard to distinguish amateur from profes...

The Western is a genre of various arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling ...

The standard 8 mm film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released on the market in 1932 to ...

A replica is a copying closely resembling the original concerning its shape and appearance. An inverted replica complements the original ...

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era beginning at the end of the 19th century and closing with Shackleton's Imperial Tran...

Dubbing, mixing, or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementary...

Probably the easiest one to control is the focal length of the lens being used. Focal length refers to whether it is a wide angle or teleph...

A spa town (also called a bathing-place or simply a spa) is a specialized resort town situated around a mineral spa (a developed mineral s...

A film school may be part of an existing public or private college or university, or part of a privately owned for-profit institution. Depe...

Tension and laughing. Samples of very good editing of amateur films. With the pursuit please marks and listen to the music- effects. Bewa...

The Dutch have somehting special with the Tour de France. They had two winners; Jansen and Zoetemalk and also two of the most spectacular f...

The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, to Charles-Antoine Lumière (1840–1911)[3] and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who w...

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries the rewards are generally in the...

The last manufacturer to produce Super 8 cameras was the French company Beaulieu. Beaulieu cameras have been the basis for several newer c...

What’s Remix Culture? Remix culture has been a hot topic lately in the media creation world. Essentially, “remix culture” refers to the e...

NTSC, PAL, and Cinema are video format standards that refer to the number of frames per second (fps) your recorded video contains. In gene...

The Festival d'Avignon is the place where artists from contracting aesthetic universes come together, discuss and confront their vision...

An occupied settlement since ancient times Meze, on the noth-western coast of the Etang de Thau, is now an important local centre for oyst...

Money shots in journalism are shots that grab and hold viewers' attention. They can include images of a person in an unusual, notewort...

In a recent blog post – Stop Making Docs - Brian Newman argued that the era of the short doc has arrived. With the web, shareable media, m...

Following in the successful footsteps of actions by the Slow Food Youth Network in Berlin (SchnippelDisko) and France (DiscoSoupe), today’s...

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...