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

Teaser WAD; Overleven op de grens van water en land. from Ruben Smit Productions on Vimeo . A film that portrays the ecosystem like ne...

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning...

Motion graphics are pieces of digital footage or animation which create the illusion of motion or rotation, and are usually combined with ...

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. ...

The camera angle marks the specific location at which the movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from ...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the s...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used ...

Montage is the technique by which separate pieces of film are selected, edited, and then pieced together to make a new section of film. A ...

In motion picture film production, cinematography and video production, a reaction shot is a shot which cuts away from the main scene in o...

Before the camera stabilizing system, a director had two choices for moving (or "tracking") shots: The camera could be mounted...

An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list ...

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb ...

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It ...

What Live Photos means Live Photo is an out-standing camera feature was introduced to iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Whenever you take a photo a...

C'est le ton qui fait la musique / It's not what you say, it's how you say it from Sandra Verkaart on Vimeo . Animation wi...

Widescreen images are images that are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) that is used in fi...

Aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from ...

; As one of the world's leading futurists, Ben Hammersley has been working with corporations, governments, and elite individuals world...

Still life, as a particular genre, began with Netherlandish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the English term still life der...

New media art refers to artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtu...

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...