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

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera crews working on a film, tele...

This short film written by Argentine artist Patricio Plaza and directed by Santiago Grasso provides a strong message on work, alienation a...

Reimerswaal is a lost city in the Netherlands. The present-day municipality of Reimerswaal is named after this city, which was granted ...

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, ...

> 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 co...

A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a ...

CRYSTAL can be experienced in Eindhoven. The permanent artwork consists out of hundreds of LED-crystals which brighten when people touch t...

A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack, befriends a single mum and her two kids as they navigate their way through the ka...

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged ...

  Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved t...

 Most 2016-era virtual realities are displayed either on a computer monitor, a projector screen, or with a virtual reality headset (also c...

Manuel is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. Played by Andrew Sachs, he is one of the most iconic characters in Brit...

The art form of film is different from painting. Painting is one particular moment in time, frozen. Film is fluid, seeming to move through...

Dordrecht filmed from the Wijnhaven and Voorstraatshaven canal, which flows into the river Maas. In the background is the Grote Kerk visib...

EVIDENCE Evidence is an 8 minute 35mm film authored by Godfrey Reggio, during his term as director of Fabrica - a new school founded by ...

Video captured by citizens and activists can be instrumental in drawing attention to human rights abuses, calling for investigations and ...

The avant-garde are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society. It may be cha...

S top motion (hyphenated stop-motion when used as an adjective) is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it ...

Each frame of an extra print of the black-and-white film to be colored was rear-projected onto a sheet of frosted glass, as in rotoscopin...

Marketing a film When a new film is made, it has to be advertised like any other new product, to let people know it exists and to encour...

Crash is a 1996 British-Canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 no...

Here’s how the Dutch animators behind this project explain what’s unfolding before your eyes: [We] cleared the original landscape of the...

In support of the mission of the University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) preserves films and videos produc...

Science fiction film (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully acce...

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film indu...

LED stands for light emitting diode and is a solid-state semiconductor device. Only recently, LED’s of sufficient power have become availab...

In 1932, Kodak introduced another new format, 8 mm, now called "Standard 8" or "Regular 8", which put four frames into...

The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas ar...

Stop motion (hyphenated stop-motion when used as an adjective) is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that ...

        Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques that reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging devi...

The concept of tradition, as the notion of holding on to a previous time, is also found in political and philosophical discourse. For exam...

Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literat...

A preview performance refers to a showing of a film to a select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the pub...

Subtitles are derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and t...

The Van Gogh paintings appearing in the video are as follows: 1. Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries 2. Langlois Bridge at Arl...

Soviet Toys, a Russian political stop motion film of 1924 by Dziga Vertov, considered to be Soviet Union's oldest animated film.  

The South African artist William Kentridge has achieved a worldwide reputation with his large, poetic and incisive installations. Over t...

What are Creative Commons licenses? Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatical...

Promotion refers to raising customer awareness of a product or brand, generating sales, and creating brand loyalty. It is one of the four...

An illusion is a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Though illusions...

Kurosawa had an innate understanding that there is inherent drama in the wind blowing in the trees. Like Andrei Tarkovsky and later Terr...

16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film, with other common film gauges in...

Cinema Remake shows that completely new creations can emerge from older work. The origins of the remakes are therefore sometimes difficul...

Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nine...

The Archives Portal Europe also cooperates with Europeana to make archival material searchable and findable within its cross-domain approa...

The Dogme 95 Collective caught the attention of the international film world with its strict "vows of chastity" or rules for fil...

a mobilephone film about a nice house on the island