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

Filmmaking is in a very strange place right now. While traditional filmmakers focus on witty scripts and clever cinematography, technolo...

On 27th July 1890 a gaunt figure stumbled down a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French country town of Auvers. The man was c...

Communicators are filmmakers and content providers who have something to say using the power of moving images with excellent sound, well c...

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1...

Vienne is a commune in southeastern France, located 32 kilometres (20 mi) south of Lyon, on the river Rhône. It is only the fourth largest...

His Master's Voice (HMV) is a famous trademark in the recording industry and was the unofficial name of a major British record label. ...

Video production is the process of creating video by capturing moving images (videography), and creating combinations and reductions of pa...

Shooting in the round refers to a style in cinematography in which the 180-degree rule is broken and the actors are filmed from all sides....

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentr...

A step outline (more commonly called a beat sheet) is a detailed telling of a story with the intention of turning the story into a screenp...

Backlight (Dutch: Tegenlicht) is a documentary television series by Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO. The first episode of Back...

The first camera using digital electronics to capture and store images was developed by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. He used a ch...

Each year, Aigues-Mortes produces 500,000 tons of salt, making it a worldwide benchmark. In the Camargue, salt can be found widely in the...

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on...

The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape located in the southern part of central France with over thre...

Time and technology have not only changed the techniques of filmmaking but have also made giving the “first take” a more comfortable aff...

Good news: we're all for a visual treat. The BBC has announced nature series Planet Earth II, a follow-up to the original ratings wi...

Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked i...

  A film essay (or "cinematic essay") consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film l...

The Super 8 film format, introduced in 1965,[1] was marketed for making home movies but it also boosted the popularity of show-at-home f...

Shooting Your Movie Focus on telling your story or idea visually. ... Make a storyboard of your film. ... Use an external mic instead ...

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 ...