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A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN...

In television, film, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific chara...

A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium is a type of shot, which tightly ...

Saint Nicholas' Day, observed on December 6 in Western Christian countries, December 5 in the Netherlands and December 19 in Eastern C...

Alexandria is the second largest city and a major economic centre in Egypt, extending about 32 km (20 mi) along the coast of the Mediterra...

The FFF Bayern has the goal of developing the film funding system, both in terms of quality as well as quantity. Through this funding ins...

Decline of film projectors In 1999, digital cinema projectors were being tried out in some movie theatres. These early projectors played ...

Anchovies and sardines are both small, silvery, oily fish, and they are even related. Nevertheless, they are different fish, and connoisseu...

It is true that users generally don’t want to watch a beautiful four-minute mini-doc that comes after a 30-second pre-roll ad. That’s vide...

In film and video, a freeze frame is when a single frame of content shows repeatedly on the screen—"freezing" the action. This c...

More than 240 enthusiasts attended the UNICA Congress 2017 in Dortmund. Each will have her or his own favourite memory. The venue, an ind...

On the cold morning of October 15, 1917, Mata Hari was executed in the Parisian suburb of Vincennes, President Raymond Poincare having ref...

Frank Bruinsma: I gave a short interview to Stichting Amateurfilm. This foundation has an aim to create interest for amateur film in past...

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...