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

H2O (1929) is a short silent film by photographer Ralph Steiner. It is a cinematic tone poem showing water in its many forms. Renowned e...

Video poetry is poetry in video form. It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin...

About the movieThe film premiered on 23 June 2018, in an open air screening on the Wilhelminasquare in Leeuwarden, as part of the celebrat...

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or Sequels are attractive to creato...

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animat...

; There is a common misconception that Petra is the famous temple shown above. Petra is actually an ancient city scattered with ruins that...

Sint Eustatius also known affectionately to the locals as Statia (/ˈsteɪʃə/), is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality...

Aftermovies are a relatively new phenomenon, in which organizers use the power of YouTube and the need of people to follow through to prom...

Although the origins of the music video date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they again came into prominence...

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

It happened before, and it still happens now and again today, but in the second half of the twentieth century, auteurs really got into mak...

My name is Shaghayegh (Sherry) Rashidan. I'm an aspiring film-maker from Vancouver and this short film is my submission for the Combat...

Conservation and digitalization of the oldest films from the collection of the National Film Archive in Warsaw   Many pre-war Polish fea...

A webcam is a video camera that feeds or streams its image in real time to or through a computer to a computer network. When "capture...

Antwerp. The lives of four dealer friends, who want to become real life swaggers, spins out of control when they steal a shipment of cocai...

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 ...