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

A great variety of films are shown at cinemas, ranging from animated films for children, blockbusters for general audiences and documentar...

Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden. Movies shot there include Fucking Åm...

The phénakisticope (better known as 'phenakistiscope' or the later misspelling 'phenakistoscope') was the first widespread...

Let the images of this parody speak for themselves, very difficult to translate even with google translate. A modern fairytale about th...

A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier work and tells the same, or a very similar, story. The term "rem...

Location shooting is the practice of filming in an actual setting rather than on a sound stage or back lot. In filmmaking a location is an...

A little peek behind the scenes at what went into the making of the music video for Michael Andrew's "Bubble In Space." Hint...

Home Movie Day (established 2002) is an annual event that celebrates amateur films and filmmaking. It is a worldwide event, held at local ...

Cat is a symbol for spiritual power, freedom, love of liberty and bad luck in Japan. On the contrary the black cat is linked to evil cunn...

Super 8 has been quiet for 30 years, but a small worldwide following of around 2,500 filmmakers is keeping the medium alive. Following ...

Filming for the World War II action thriller Dunkirk is set to move from France to the Netherlands next week, as the fishing island of Ur...

Holland America Line was founded in 1893 as the Nederlandsche-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company), a ...

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

A horror film is a movie that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shockin...

This stop-motion homage to the silent, Russian classics takes a twisted look at the ongoing war between film and video. (Imagine Jan Svank...

First film screenings The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. This first screening on 22 M...

A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the la...

In digital video, photography, television and film, production refers to the tasks that must be completed or executed during the filming o...

I n the 1960s and 1970s the Evoluon attracted large visitor numbers, since its interactive exhibitions were a new and unique concept in th...

Camera positions "avant la lettre" so to speak with fictures from mirrors and special tracking. Although camera movements are ...

The technological boundaries between home-movie-making and professional movie-making are becoming increasingly blurred as prosumer equipme...

: Filmmaking is like a marriage: it's messy and crazy and chaotic until one day you die. But being open and willing to compromise is ...

We all like to be entertained without having to think too much. The purpose of a show or movie is to relax the viewer, tired after one ful...

Virtual cinematography is the set of cinematographic techniques performed in a computer graphics environment. This includes a wide variety...

Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km2), comprising lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges. Yello...

Imovie can be a great help. In this old v8 video I manage to improve a number of things Video contained half images, cut them away ...

Filmmaking also takes place outside of the mainstream and is commonly called independent filmmaking. Since the introduction of DV technolo...

A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to "take the waters" for the...

Antwerp's diamond district, also known as the Diamond Quarter (Diamantkwartier), and dubbed the Square Mile is an area within the city...

A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film (na...

A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier work and tells the same, or a very similar, story. The term "rem...

A storyboard artist visualizes stories and sketches frames of the story. Quick pencil drawings and marker renderings are two of the most c...

You might think that a movie about information from 1953 couldn’t possibly be relevant in the age of iPhone apps and the Internet but y...

If you're making movies of activities within a relatively small area, it's often a good idea to change your viewpoint to accommoda...

As you make movies, keep in mind that you are really telling a story. Like any story, your movie needs a proper introduction, a body, and ...

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same pla...

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb ...

9pm, 1st April 2012, Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek - the stunning historical setting for an ambitious 3d projection on one of the most dis...

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...