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

Most cameras can also be handheld, that is held in the hands of the camera operator who moves from one position to another while filming th...

Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as ...

Under Bike Cameras you can find many action cameras, as well as accessories for different cameras. These cameras are suitable for many ou...

Film is an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten, and inspire audiences. The visual elements of cinema need no transla...

Rembrandt's home and studio Get to know the master personally by visiting the home and studio of the illustrious artist Rembrandt v...

Hardangervidda National Park consists of an area around 8000km² and is the highest mountain plateau in northern Europe. Hardangervidda i...

This is the first time that an exhibition has been dedicated to the late work of one of the greatest painters who ever lived: Rembrandt....

In film, a storyboard artist is hired at the beginning of a project. When a storyboard artist is hired by a motion picture company, the ar...

In the 1950s, playing home movies became popular in the United States as Kodak 8 mm film projector equipment became more affordable. The de...

A film transition is a technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combin...

Expressionist movies relied heavily on symbolism and artistic imagery rather than stark realism to tell their stories. Given the grim mo...

Comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, televisi...

One of the most celebrated scenes in the film is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps . This scene has been described as one of ...

In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending...

Electronic news-gathering (ENG) is a broadcast news industry description of television producers, reporters and editors making use of el...

A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) against words, objects, actions, or discussions that are considered undesirable or offensi...

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The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope it...

Biograph The company was started by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technolog...

How a Dutch boy became an international polar hero. The film revolves around the person Sjef van Dongen, forgotten by most, but once he ...

In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneou...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage is film or video footage that can be used in other films. ...

You may be surprised to learn that your home movies can hold great interest for a much wider public, including local historians, internat...

All cameras use the same basic design: light enters an enclosed box through a converging lens and an image is recorded on a light-sensitiv...

Historically, video frames were represented as analog waveforms in which varying voltages represented the intensity of light in an analog ...

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Sout...

The paintings of Le Mair can justifiably be compared to those of the Old Masters, sometimes exposing him to criticism by the more modern l...

Suriname was colonized by the British and the Dutch in the 17th century. In 1667 it was captured by the Dutch, who governed Suriname as Dut...

  The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in bo...

A sound blimp is a housing attached to a camera which reduces the sound caused by the shutter click, particularly SLRs. It is primarily us...

filmtips: Fade In & Fade Out You'll notice that most professional videos begin and end with a black screen. It's easy to giv...

Made with quicktime pro. With the possibilities of cutting and of filming outdoors, films have a much wider palette of possibilities to ...

A film still is a photograph taken on or off the set of a movie or television program during production. These photographs are also taken ...

As unmanned aerial vehicles become more robust and the ability to stabilize high quality cameras becomes more possible, the possibilities t...

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

While some films criticize armed conflicts in a general sense, others focus on acts within a specific war, such as the use of poison gas o...

Sky over Holland (1967) John Fernhout Made for the 1967 Montreal World Expo, this dynamic documentary provides a whirlwind tour of the ...

A Super 8mm camera is a motion picture camera specifically manufactured to use the Super 8mm motion picture format. Super 8mm film cameras ...

There is increased interest in films originating in the Arab world. For example, films from Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian ter...

A film storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help film directors, cinemato...

In photography and videography, a filter is a camera accessory consisting of an optical filter that can be inserted into the optical path...

Nordiskfilm. The company's eye-opening economic results lead to the development of a number of rival firms. It was one of these firms...

The Australian film industry has its beginnings with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film ever m...

A hidden camera is a still or video camera used to film people without their knowledge. The camera is "hidden" because it is eith...

Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing and video editing in the post-production process of filmmaking of narrative f...

Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that pre...

Hepworth was born in Lambeth, in present-day South London. His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth, was a famous magic lantern showman and auth...

A situation comedy, or sitcom, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms ...

Lighting design as it applies to the built environment, also known as 'architectural lighting design', is both a science and an a...

The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a tota...