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

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and s...

Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjec...

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known...

Films can also be classified by the setting, theme, topic, mood, format, target audience or budget. The setting is the environment where t...

Cinema of France refers to the film industry based in France. The French cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within ...

Audiography ("writing sound") within Indian-style filmmaking, is the audio engineering performed by the sound department of a fi...

 "a culture" is the set of customs, traditions, and values of a society or community, such as an ethnic group or nation. Cul...

For 3D animations, objects (models) are built on the computer monitor (modeled) and 3D figures are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For ...

Five years ago, Google (GOOGL, Tech30) unveiled Google Glass, a futuristic gadget with the promise of changing how consumers take picture...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a speci...

Because of the movies I make, they get nervous, because they think of me as difficult and angry. I AM difficult and angry [laughs], but th...

A cliffhanger, or cliffhanger ending, is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, ...

  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 n...

Film title design is a term describing the craft and design of motion picture title sequences. Since the beginning of the film form, it ha...

The church of St Philibert (early 11th century), is the main surviving building of the former Benedictine abbey of Tournus, suppressed in ...

Public history describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are genera...

This is one of the five basic lighting setups used in studio portrait photography; the others being Broad, Short, Split Portrait and Butte...

Public history describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are genera...

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...