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

Your film can include sounds that seem like a natural part of the scene: waves breaking on a beach, wind blowing, and dialogue (people on ...

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film to the public immediately on home video formats rather than a theatri...

The Pendant portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit are a pair of full-length wedding portraits by Rembrandt. Formerly owned by the...

As rights vary by country and jurisdiction, a work may be subject to rights in one country and be in the public domain in another. Some ri...

The genre has its roots in spoken and written tales of epic journeys, such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid. The road film is a standard plot...

Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, t...

The 1970s saw the advent of consumer camcorders that could record an hour or two of video on one relatively inexpensive videocassette whic...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets const...

First documented in the 13th century, the Bächle once served as a water supply and were used to help fight fires. Today the Bächle are lov...

Most lost films are from the silent film and early talkie era, from about 1894 to 1930. Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation estimates t...

8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions — the original...

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other conten...

. An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationshi...

A video mashup (also written as video mash-up) combines multiple pre-existing video sources with no discernible relation with each other i...

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...

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 ...

What Is Live Photo? A Live Photo captures 1.5 seconds of video and audio both before and after you press the shutter button to take a pho...

Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through screenwriting, casting, shootin...

The narrator is, within any story, the fictional or non-fictional, personal or impersonal entity who tells the story to the audience. When...

Occupation Artist and author, most recently of “William Wegman Paintings” Location Manhattan Favorite Room Mr. Wegman lives in a fortr...

  Distinct from the centers are the locations where movies are filmed. Because of labor and infrastructure costs, many films are produced ...

Chroma key compositing (or chroma keying) is a technique for compositing (layering) two images together. A color range in the top layer is...

A family film starring my granddaughter . Two complete different sequences edited together. Just look for the possible story in it. Th...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures, and file footage is film or video footage that can be used again in other...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures, and file footage is film or video footage that can be used again in other...

Truthfully, when you’re a filmmaker, you look at the story before the film and after the film. You’re trying to understand the bigger pict...

A well-organized slide show allows a presenter to fit visual images to an oral presentation. The old adage "A picture is worth a thou...

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 cameras or digi...

Video art is named for the original analog video tape, which was the most commonly used recording technology in much of the form history i...

Wedding videography can trace its roots back to before the advent of the modern video camera through 8mm and 16mm films. When film was the...

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

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...