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

The term dates from around 1600 during the Thirty Years' War in the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands). The Dutch fortresses...

Many film schools still teach students how to use actual film in their productions, although the incorporation of digital media in film sc...

Unlike most other cities Krabbegat generally plays local music The music still largely provided by so-called mop bands. These amateur ba...

As a teenager she did gymnastics, athletics and basketball, but finally chose speed skating. At the age of 16, she already won a junior t...

Film theory or cinema studies is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks ...

Tilting is a cinematographic technique in which the camera is stationary and rotates in a vertical plane (or tilting plane). A rotation i...

Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video s...

Filmmaking Drones also have potential artistic uses. The machines could make entirely new perspectives and angles possible in cinematogr...

A freeze frame shot is used when one shot is printed in a single frame several times, in order to make an interesting illusion of a still ...

Jan Knippenberg (Hoek van Holland, nineteen april 1 948 - Texel, twenty-three november 1 995) was a Dutch ultra runner and historian. He wa...

In public relations, Spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing a biased interpretation of an event or campaigning to persua...

Image capture Traditional cameras capture light onto photographic plate or photographic film. Video and digital cameras use an electroni...

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

A Frisian clock is a pendulum clock with anchor escapement was made ​​mostly in Friesland, from 1770 to about 1890. these clocks were also...

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio. Field recordings can be either of two var...

Cross-cutting: Cutting between different sets of action that can be occurring simultaneously or at different times, (this term is used sy...

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country comprising an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies...

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988...

Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film ima...

Horror is also a genre of film and fiction that relies on horrifying images or situations to tell stories and prompt reactions in their au...

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking ...

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

A predecessor to video journalism first appeared in the 1960s in the USA, when reporters had to write and shoot their own stories. Mich...

The cinema of Romania is the art of motion-picture making within the nation of Romania or by Romanian filmmakers abroad. As upon muc...

Jurassic Park is an American media franchise centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. It began in 199...

Swedish film has long enjoyed international success, famous for auteurs such as Ingmar Bergman. A new generation of directors – such as R...

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrom...

The film: Vedder has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the plann...

Many Christmas stories have been adapted to movies and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on TV. Since the popul...

. A point of view shot (also known as POV shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is ...

Non-diegetic sound: It is sound which is represented as coming from a source outside the story space, i.e. its source is neither visible o...

In 1889 the hotel had bought five houses at the Damrak and three on the Prins Hendrikkade. Among them was the historic, dating from 1633 H...

Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to ...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used t...

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (‘Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid’) is a cultural-historical organization of natio...

In both the United States and Europe, the idea of children's films began to gain relative prominence in the 1930s. According to Bazalge...

Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting...

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional film, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the il...

In the Netherlands, "Dutch children put out a clog filled with hay and a carrot for Saint Nicholas' horse. On Saint Nicholas' ...

Around 50 light artists have created light installations, sculptures, projections and performanced. These all offer the visitor of GLOW a s...

In both the United States and Europe, the idea of children's films began to gain relative prominence in the 1930s. According to Bazalge...

    9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system. It was conceived initia...

Happy 50th Birthday Super 8! We’re celebrating a very special birthday this year – Super 8 is turning 50! Fifty years ago, Kodak introd...

In motion picture terminology, the term tracking shot may refer to a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly, a wheeled platf...

Blue Movie (1971) In 1971 in the Dutch film world the sex wave also eruptedl. Both Mira and what I see, but particularly in Blue Movie, nu...

Enhancing images In computer graphics, the process of improving the quality of a digitally stored image by manipulating the image with s...

The old factories of Philips in Eindhoven  The first film, which was shot with the cinématographe was La sortie des usines Lumière. ...

Chinese people in the Netherlands form one of the largest overseas Chinese populations in continental Europe. As of 2012, official st...

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and informatio...