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

There are fewer film critics on television and radio in the last thirty years. Most film criticism in general does not hold the same place...

In English-speaking countries, world cinema is the films and film industries of non-English-speaking countries. It is therefore often used...

The important thing to remember is to intermix long, medium, and close-up shots for variety. A good rule of thumb for your filming is to...

There is always the question of exactly how independent a TV news report is. However, in the later 20th century there were many news netwo...

I n movies, sequels are common. There are many name formats for sequels. Sometimes, they either have unrelated titles or have a letter add...

Slide shows had their beginnings in the 1600s, when hand-painted images on glass were first projected onto a wall with a "magic lante...

Photochrom  is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer o...

There’s nothing better than the holidays or summer break when we can finally break away from our normal, boring schedule and head off on ...

InZicht is de website van de Stichting Microtoerisme InZicht, een ideële stichting die op een leuke, gezonde en ontspannende manier wil bi...

That dark stylish beauty synonymous with directors like Guillermo del Toro and Tim Burton has its roots in Germany during the 1910s, 20s,...

How the sequence goes together How are the shots edited? Are they joined with simple cuts (where one shot goes straight to the next one...

Batty McFaddin - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/...

Falun Mine (Swedish: Falu Gruva) was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated for a millennium from the 10th century to 1992. It produced as...

A movie theater or movie theatre (also called a cinema) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies o...

On 31 May 2017, the Efteling celebrates its 65th anniversary. What ever began with an idea of ​​Anton Pieck and Peter Reijnders Sprookjesb...

The substitution splice or stop trick is a cinematic special effect in which filmmakers achieve an appearance, disappearance, or transfor...

Themes and symbolism The film explores the theme of good versus evil, using as its main protagonist a "good German", a popula...

Through his paintings and books, Little Hyttnäs has become one of the most famous artist's homes in the world, transmitting the arti...

Manipulated footage. Distributed with inaccurate descriptions, edited with graphic effects, or filmed with actors, manipulated videos sho...

Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate wi...

In traditional linear movies, the author can carefully construct the plot, roles, and characters to achieve a specific effect on the audie...

Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it is...

A brief explanation of what Home Movie Day is all about... What Is Home Movie Day? Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and...

Another video about this subject can be found on this site under: Killing of the Dutch Republic Death and legacy   Van Oldenbarnevelt...

Idea y guión: Noelia Bellés Calvera. Tulip mania or tulipomania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for ...

Why was this film shot in black and white? Primarily for reasons of authenticity, realism, and also to make it feel like a historic docu...

Political cinema in the narrow sense of the term is a cinema which portrays current or historical events or social conditions in a partis...

An escape room is a physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles using clues, hints and strategy to complete the ob...

As its name implied the film was made of paper (which was a stable material, unlike cellulose nitrate film), on which images were offset p...

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12 which was the fir...

  In the visual arts, composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the ...

The German bombers appeared in the skies over Guernica in the late afternoon of April 26, 1937 and immediately transformed the sleepy Span...

The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as history of cinematography, and it has universal achievements, even though Polish movi...

Human rights are moral principles or norms, which describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal righ...

Making movies is an art. For some time, the Art movies were considered the best form of art. But later filmmaking was transformed into a b...

You can teach yourself a lot about the mechanics of filmmaking by watching films. You’ll learn why filmmakers do things, and you’ll get an...

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in bo...

Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatically to all creative material under cop...

In motion pictures the manipulation of time and space is a considerable contributing factor to the narrative storytelling tools. Film edit...

The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the ...

In the small illegal markets of the Romanian countryside, farmers and traders who have not been able to participate in the welfare are tr...

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be c...

Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary". The aesthetic...

The Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is a former charitable almshouse in Beaune, France. It was founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin...

Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience. These spa...

Why Preserve Film? Movies have documented America for more than one hundred years. Since Thomas Edison introduced the movie camera in 18...

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 constr...

  TransitionsIn film or video scene consists of a sequence of shots. Each shot is made from a different perspective and then they are join...

There are two things that, if added to a camera, will immediately reduce jitter – good old fashioned weight, and a lowered center of gravit...