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

Creation Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video camer...

Ethics. Okay, not really a tip, but its got to be listed if for no reason than its the right thing to do. And good ethics makes things eas...

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, telev...

A premiere or première is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition. A work will often have m...

Designed as an imaginary journey behind the scenes of film, this tour plunges you into the secret, captivating world of 7th Art with the ...

Winter was thought of as the reign of the winter spirits; these needed to be driven out in order for the summer to return. Carnival can t...

Shrove Tuesday (also known in Commonwealth countries and Ireland as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is the day in February or March immedi...

A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematography, t...

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such d...

Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt, or dolly around the stage driven by a c...

A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal ...

A marching band is a group in which instrumental musicians perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation...

Between 1646 and 1696 paint windmill 'De Kat' was built at its present site on the Kalverringdijk at the Zaanse Schans. In 1782 th...

Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 film by Peter Joseph presenting a number of conspiracy theories. The film assembles archival footage, anim...

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis ("Southern Land") date back to antiquity, Antarctica is noted as the last...

Bad sound: Any seasoned filmmaker will tell you that having good sound is more important than having good images. So, if you're in the...

For people who love nature and wildlife, shooting great videos of these wonders comes almost naturally. In fact, for some, the fondness f...

An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation ...

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 vid...

Keep up with the new technology but do not forget to tell the story New technology has brought new gadgets that have excited most cinemat...

The drawings of young children have attracted and interested many professionals in the field of education. Researchers, psychologists, t...

The Delta Works (Dutch: Deltawerken) is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of l...

Two main variants can be distinguished: the Rhineland carnaval, found in the province of Limburg, and the Bourgondische carnaval, found ma...

Film lighting can be expensive and awkward to use, and it takes practice to get good results. I suggest you learn to get the best out of n...

Color Temperature Color temperature refers to the “color” of white light emitted by a light source based on that radiated by a perfect bl...

The artist Gerard, together with his dog-hungry pop Billy, has been an immensely popular theater duo for ten years. They draw full halls,...

A riveting tale of undertrials who come together to form a band in jail and their music becomes their only hope for freedom. #QaidiBand...

Lifestreaming (from Facebook) is recording your daily activities online using blog posts, tweets, Facebook status updates, and a whole hos...

Those who enter the Whole Hole are pulled into a kind of wormhole and travel to another place in space or a parallel universe, like Alice...

Lifeline Shows the waves of the sound a boat engine makes underwater. The dutch artist Meyer  makes the inaudible visible and shows us ...

Born Georg Henri Anton Ivens into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in one of his father's photo supply shops and from there develo...

Fireworks take many forms to produce the four primary effects: noise, light, smoke, and floating materials (confetti for example). They ma...

Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the N...

An Internet protocol camera, or IP camera, is a type of digital video camera commonly employed for surveillance, and which, unlike analog ...

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was an architect from Reus, Catalonia. He is the best known practitioner of Catalan Mod...

Romance films or romance movies are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on TV that focus on passi...

The concept of orphan films acquired an academic and creative entity in the 1990s from new approaches to managing film archives. At that t...

Optical video recording technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 The Gregg patent...

Jean-Luc Godard, never one to be outdone, has also made vivid use throughout his career of not just red but white and blue as well. The...

OLDER CITIES OVERCOME BY EXCESSIVE TOURISM? Many older cities, such as Venice, Barcelona, Berlin, and Amsterdam, are suffering from exces...

Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt, or dolly around the stage driven by a c...

The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Since 1976, Cairo has held the annual Ca...

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 ...